Inventor of the Hashtag
Interview starts at 12:30 and ends at 44:11
"Your pocket is now your garage, right. If one time you used to buy a car to sort of have in the garage to be like, 'Wow. Look at this. I'm just going to go out and look at my baby.' I think that in a similar way Apple thinks very similarly about computer products. And Amazon, meanwhile, is striking a much more ordinary context, like 'Don't think too hard about technology.' But it should be there to enable your life to be easier, be simpler. "
News
"Amazon's stock price crosses $1,000 amid Wall Street love fest" by Ángel González at The Seattle Times - May 30, 2017
"The most bullish Amazon analyst on Wall Street thinks the stock will soar another 47% from here" by Akin Oyedele at Business Insider - May 10, 2016
Echo Look - $200 at Amazon.com
Tech Tips
"Now you can read your Kindle books in Virtual Reality" by Bufo Calvin at I Love My Kindle
Interview with Chris Messina
"Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon's Echo Show" by Chris Messina at Medium - May 11, 2017
"Seeing Genius in Negative Space" by Chris Messina at Medium - May 19, 2015
"Introducing Echo Show" video at YouTube - May 9, 2017
Echo Show product page at Amazon
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
"Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels" by Chris Messina at FactoryJoe.com - August 25, 2007
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2017
Steve Jobs in 1980 comparing computers to car models (YouTube)
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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