WorldWideWeb

Celebrating its 30th anniversary

WorldWideWeb

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of WorldWideWeb, a group of people at CERN decided to try to bring it back to [...]
Retro gaming: Pole Position II

Early example of product placement inside games

Retro gaming: Pole Position II

I think this was the first racing game I played on the Commodore 64. I remember spending a lot of hours on it. Even [...]
Headphones and personal area stereo

Music while you work

Headphones and personal area stereo

I came across this post Personal Area Stereo by Dave Thomas via Uses This. He starts off with: “I like [...]
Everything iterates to lowest denominator

Universal law of wide adoption

Everything iterates to lowest denominator

Last night, I was pondering a little bit on the social network post of yesterday. One of the interesting aspects is [...]
Social capital and their networks

The status game

Social capital and their networks

I regard my blog as my public notebook and one of the things I have not done lately is posting about interesting [...]
Updating stakeholders

Keep every one in the loop

Updating stakeholders

Marc Barros (founder of Moment and Contour) wrote an interesting post the other day about writing business updates. [...]
Thesis: open source becomes new type of industry standard

Accelerating innovation

Thesis: open source becomes new type of industry standard

The most successful and widespread technologies in the physical sense are industry standards like wifi and usb. [...]
50,000 photos of the moon

The level of detail is just amazing

50,000 photos of the moon

Two weeks ago, I posted the far side of the moon selfie taken from the Longjiang-2 satellite. This week, I came [...]
Retro gaming: Lemmings

The original puzzle-platformer

Retro gaming: Lemmings

I think this was one of the earliest puzzle games I played on my PC. It is one of those games you can play for [...]
Top 15 global brands ranking from 2000 to 2018

Nothing is set in stone

Top 15 global brands ranking from 2000 to 2018

The video below (via @freakonometrics) shows rankings of the top 15 global brands over the years. It is super [...]