Last January 12, 2011, Dan Benjamin and John Gruber kicked off a new section in their successful podcast “The Talk Show”.
The mission: watch the James Bond film series, one movie a week, in chronological order, take notes and comment on the matter…
You’ve got to hand it to Google, their visual campaigns have been improving quite a bit. It helps when they choose good professionals for the right job. You may recall the well done Chrome speed test campaign with its elaborate contraptions in slow…
May Peter Falk rest in peace. A crafty actor with a long career, having worked with sounding names as John Cassavetes, Frank Capra, Mike Nichols, William Friedkin and Wim Wenders among others. Falk died of Alzheimer’s disease this past June 23rd in…
Interesting collection of quotes (here) by Steve Jobs and Ron Johnson (Apple’s Senior VP of Retail) regarding Apple Retail. Several key ideas in these statements throw some light on the concept, experience and strategy for the Apple Stores.
A first look at the new Windows 8 user interface (video below).The Windows Phone 7 OS has some interesting stuff UI-wise, and I’m glad Microsoft is working to adapt it to a tablet environment. However, It’s amazing that Microsoft keeps insisting on using the taskbar and other…
Apple’s Media Event has just ended a few minutes ago. You can say that it was a presentation too long for its juice. Basically, a refreshed iPod nano, a new white iPod Touch, iOS 5 (to be available Oct 12), iCloud and the much talked about new iPhone 4S…
Though an international edition cover story may still be found online or inside a US magazine edition, US publishers seem to perceive them as less important or at least not appealling…
The Mac App Store launch effect, tasted in first hand by Evernote. Bear in mind that Evernote is a free app. Nevertheless, according to Evernote’s Phil Libin (in the article’s comments), in over 100K app downloads, 40K accounts for new Mac users (around double of everything else). Impressive.
These were the top 10 stories published by The Constant in 2011. You can also dive into monthly archives for 2011 by using the calendar at the top of this page.