cocoabox:

As a tool for productivity, Penultimate aspires to be a critical part of your creative and note-taking workflow. Penultimate 3.3 is a huge update that adds high-quality integration with popular services Dropbox and Evernote, as well as new features to help you move your data around your iPad…

Since the rise of the Internet in the ’90s, the web has shown no signs of slowing down. We’ve watched the birth and evolution of social media, e-commerce and online video entertainment. It’s hard to imagine that the treasured websites we all use today were at one point just scribbles on a pie…

Ah, another great cultural industry to investigate!

When people discuss “company culture,” they usually do so in terms of employment or sales. How will the way this company has developed to solve problems affect my chances of successfully working for them? How will the timbre of their daily work influence the approach I take to sell to them? But in Africa, the company culture of three big tech firms continues to influence how they treat both an emerging market and the growing human resource they have to draw from in the continent.

I spent a day talking with leaders from IBM, Microsoft and Google about their operations and goals in Africa. We spoke in their offices in Kenya, increasingly important as a gateway to East and Central Africa, as well as to the content as a whole. It turns out that each company’s culture has significantly tinted how each sees Africa, and how they operate.

Who are the movers, the shakers, the companies that affect profound change? And what products do they bring to market that disrupt all others, making other companies completely re-think their strategies? Let’s take a look at seven of those products whose competitors wish had never existed. Tha…

curiositycounts:

Historian Edward Tenner on the under-appreciated gap between our ability to innovate and our ability to foresee the consequences. Tenner is the author of the illuminating Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences.

I have been tinkering with various iPad bookmarklet options for some time, and found all of these codes all in one place by Chris Bray. For each, you click the box with the curved arrow at the top, set up a bookmark, go back to the open book icon at the top, edit that bookmark, then add the appropriate code. With these bookmarks in place, you can sling the web page into various tools ranging from Facebook through Evernote, Instapaper, Tumblr, and the like. I’m working my way through them to make sure they do what I’d expect, but am pleased so far.

I have blended kitsche with theatre here on this trip. I enjoyed Shakespeare with David Tennant and Catherine Tate, as well as Gershwin in the Open Air Theatre. Enjoyable mix!