David Lidsky's Blog, page 3071
January 22, 2015
Remember Apple's Lisa, The Computer That Cost Steve Jobs A Gig? Kevin Costner Does!
Lisa was a commercial failure upon release in 1983, but Apple and Jobs learned lessons for their next computer: the Macintosh.
It's #ThrowbackThursday, y'all, so we're kicking off a new series of Retro Recommenders. First up: a 1983 Cupertino-based flop that sure looks better today.
80,000 Media Assets Freely Available Via The Public Domain Project
It's a treasure trove of free resources for designers, artists, filmmakers, and more.
It can be hard for artists, designers, photo editors, and other creatives to track down Public Domain materials for their work. A number of resources offer copyright-free material—like Shutterstock or the National Archives—but none are so vast and localized as the Public Domain Project, launched this week by royalty-free video marketplace Pond5.
Angry Birds Developer Rovio Branching Out To Young Adult Novels
Despite challenges, Rovio continues to expand its business horizons.
Rovio, developer of the Angry Birds franchise, is swapping egg-pinching pigs for teen angst with its latest venture: A series of pirate-themed novels that the Finnish company will publish by early next year.
I Drove Ford's Golf Cart In Atlanta (Note: I Was In Silicon Valley At The Time)
Experimental remote repositioning technology enables drone-style command of distant vehicles.
Until today, I had never driven a golf cart. Now I have. True, all I did was scoot around a parking lot, zigging and zagging to avoid a few safety cones. But it was still a memorable experience: The cart was in a parking lot at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and I was sitting at a PC at Ford's new Silicon Valley Research Center in Palo Alto, California, which celebrated its formal grand opening today.
Tumblr Launches An In-House Ad Agency That Pairs Creators With Big Brands
Tumblr looks to transform its users into a massive, crowd-sourced ad agency, with the new Creatrs Network.
Today, Tumblr is lifting the curtains off a new in-house creative lab called the Creatrs Network that will take advantage of the blogging site's 420 million monthly unique visitors.
Legendary Shoe Designer Vince Camuto Dies At 78
The founder of Nine West and creator of a multibillion-dollar footwear empire passed away Wednesday.
Vince Camuto, legendary women's shoe designer, died in his Greenwich, Connecticut, home Wednesday at age 78, Women's Wear Daily reports (subscription required). The cause of death was cancer.
The Wildest Design Yet For Google's Project Ara Phone
Russian design firm Lapka tells us that everyone behind Project Ara may be missing the point.
Google's Project Ara is one of the company's most ambitious projects. It's a modular phone, in which users could snap in new cameras, batteries, or processors as quickly as snapping together Lego.
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Why You're Flaky And Late, In Charts
Blame it on the bus schedule.
If your most frequently sent text message is "running 5 mins late sorry!!!," these charts, by Isla Bell Murray and Jessica Saia for the Bold Italic, might resonate. If you're one of those annoyingly punctual people always on the receiving end of such texts, the charts will explain why not everyone has such impeccable time management skills. (It's usually the fault of Instagram, the crappy bus schedule, and the Uber driver.)
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Here's Another Thing About The Sharing Economy You Might Not Have Thought Of: The Tax Bill
Airbnb your room? Drive for Lyft? Unfortunately, that extra income isn't free money.
Early last year, a New York-based freelancer—let's call him Henry—had to travel for a project. The job required him to be gone for a few months, so, in order to offset the cost of his room in the East Village, Henry fired up Airbnb, snapped a few pictures, wrote a short description, and listed his space for rent.
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One Student's Fight to Reclaim IP Revenues For Undergrads' Startups
Caleb Carr is searching for a fair shake for business builders who haven't graduated yet.
American culture loves to lionize iconoclasts who drop out of college to build fabulously lucrative startups.
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