macworld

Steve Jobs has printed what is, for my money, an exemplar of the kind of communication a company and brand can do when they are confident of who they are and what they stand for.

Full text is here.

Jobs writes:

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to MacWorld I go. I’m departing at the wee hours today to San Francisco with my Griffin Technology friends. If you’re going to be at MacWorld please be sure to track me down to say hi.

Like Mickey Rourke in Barfly, this video is to all my friends. The emphasis here is on gatherings, camps and conferences where I made new friends and put faces to tweets over the last couple of years.

iTunes' new feature, Genius, is getting a lot of negative reviews but a few good ones as well. The Genius Playlist function, which compiles tracks in the user's collection, is getting far better reviews than the Genius Sidebar, which picks recommendations from the iTunes store.

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Rex writes:

Today, Jacqueline Leo of The Huffington Post writes about the new IDG experiment with predictive markets that utilizes the brand of a magazine that was shuttered five years ago, The Industry Standard.

Here’s some of what she wrote:

• Macworld head turner: Electric flying car
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