During a discussion of e-book readers on a recent episode of Digital Campus, I made a comparison between Amazon’s Kindle and Apple’s iPod which I think more or less holds up. Just as Apple revolutionized a fragmented, immature digital music player market in the early 2000s with an elegant, intuitive new device (the iPod) and [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Microsoft'
E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Apple · Digital Humanities · History of Technology · Microsoft · Open Source · Tools
History in Screenshots
April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
One of the things I keep stumbling upon are amateur software histories told through series of screenshots. Here are a couple examples. The first is a slideshow from ZDNet—which strictly speaking isn’t an amateur publication at all, although as far as history is concerned I think it’s close enough—that provides a look back [...]
Tags: History of Technology · Microsoft · Mozilla
Tags Over Time
January 8th, 2007 · No Comments
There’s a new trend in online amateur history that digital history scholars would do well to notice. A few months ago I pointed to Yahoo’s Taglines, a Flash visualization of the changing use of Flickr tags over a 16 month period from June 2004 to September 2005. More recently Chirag Mehta, an IT [...]
Tags: History of Technology · Microsoft · Timelines · Tools · Yahoo!
