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Hands down the coolest thing I have seen in weeks. Who will deliver this first, Apple or Google? Either way, can we have the 21st century now please… i’m seeing a dusty film forming on my mouse at this moment.
(Original article, by @fastcompany)

The hype that surrounded Wolfram Alpha bore similarities to the Segway hype machine of 7 years ago: not for the first time was the media abuzz with promises of a revolution in some small part of our lives, that hackneyed ‘paradigm shift’; the ‘game changer’.
Some weeks later, the news that their traffic levels have plummeted [...]

I’m a daily user of Google Reader and find it very useful for helping me manage information. Despite having used it for a year, and maybe because it’s quite well made to start with, I hadn’t stopped to ponder whether or not it had keyboard shortcuts until I accidentally pressed ‘g’ then ‘f’ in a [...]

A fun post by our friend Ivanka who recently joined Canonical to head up the User Experience side, a role which will no doubt prove challenging but has huge potential. Those who’ve already used Ubuntu, myself included, have something of a love/hate relationship with it; likely this is because we hardcore techies are no longer their [...]