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What’s a bookmarklet? Well, the Bookmarklets.com home page describes them in this way: Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Firefox and Explorer web browsers. Bookmarklets are free. Bookmarklets allow you to: * Modify the way you see someone else’s webpage. * Extract data from a webpage. * Search more …
CNBC has a nice interview with Mike Murray, who was marketing manager of the Macintosh at the time of the “1984” Super Bowl commercial. They also link to the video. What that commercial did was it picked up on a particular vibe of a large segment of of American society. Young people, innovators, creative people, …
From PCWorld.ca: Imagine how different the computing world would be if IBM had used proprietary chips in the original PC, rather than off-the-shelf components. The PC clone market would never have happened, and IBM, rather than Microsoft, might have emerged as the leading company of the computer revolution. Or if Steve Jobs had never taken …