Ten-minute documentary “RE:Invention” captures some of the spirit I hope to convey here at Oddly Together. I lost my job on April 30, 2009. While there is demand for the kind of analysis I write about Apple, Microsoft and other technology companies, there isn’t employment I can find. So I am reinventing myself—as the people profiled in... - http://www.oddlytogether.com/post...
Every picture tells a story. Apple presented this one during the October 2008 launch of unibody MacBook Pros. So many Macs among so many students seems out sorts. Where are the Windows laptops? The students and Mac laptops go so oddly together. The day after I returned from the MacBook event, I tracked down the photo’s source: A group of students... - http://www.oddlytogether.com/post...
Late this morning, BetaNews founder Nate Mook and I IMed about Google's Chrome OS announcement. Our differing positions somehow fit oddly together. Joe Wilcox: Microsoft is seriously up shits creek. Nate Mook: Eventually. Joe: The Q is when does Google become like Microsoft. Trade one for another. Nate: I don't know anyone at this point that is... - http://www.oddlytogether.com/post...
Today, I received the Olympus PEN E-P1 micro four-thirds digicam. The E-P1 continues a long tradition started with the first Pen camera released in 1959, the year of my birth. I’ve posted an unboxing set at Flickr. The PEN E-P1 is by design a set of capabilities packaged oddly together: The features are modern but the design retro Lenses are... - http://www.oddlytogether.com/post...
Now this video is what social media is all about.
Do you have a social media story that you’d like told? Please e-mail Joe Wilcox: oddlytogether at gmail.com. - http://www.oddlytogether.com/post...