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  • #Shorterfilms and Being Trendy on Twitter

    For the past two years, I’ve been on the board of the London Short Film Showcase. One thing I’ve been doing is running contests on Facebook and Twitter to promote the event (next Saturday at 7pm! Come!). On Friday, I posted this pair of tweets: I figured a few local people would enter, which would…

  • iOS 5 = Win, iCloud = Fail

    Yesterday, Apple released an update to its iPhone/iPad operating system, iOS 5, alongside its new backup/syncing/interweb thing, iCloud. iOS 5 iOS 5 is beautiful. You can read a complete list of new stuff elsewhere, but some of the new features really improve the devices that iOS powers. Notifications were a useless mess before, but now…

  • Steve Jobs

    There is a famous story about Steve Jobs luring Pepsi president John Sculley to work for Apple. In Sculley’s words: “And then he looked up at me and just stared at me with the stare that only Steve Jobs has and he said do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your…