meghan asha and julia allison tell us about nonsociety, how the internet has changed communication, and the phizzpop design challenge. i am off screen making faces about meghan’s mention of surface (4:18) and julia loving the iphone (5:40). thanks ladies for participating in phizzpop… you were brilliant.
the debate is on. is microsoft cool? with the latest ad, it seems that folks that can’t spend a couple grand on a laptop is “not cool enough to be a mac person.” lauren runs through an apple store and finds out that nothing but there 13” macbook is going to fit into her budget of $1000 or less (and just barely). so does it mean that if i don’t have an apple on my machine, i am not cool. hardly!
as i was going through specs and prices for my next laptop, it was clear that i can get much more machine in a pc than i can get in a mac. this is not just because i work at microsoft either. i rolled with a macbook air for some time until i realized that it was just not cutting it in the performance department. so i ebayed the air and now rock out with my voodoo envy 133 (also not under a grand, but it is so damn sexy!). it has a removable battery, 2 usb ports (one shared esata), express card slot, and comes with an esata external optical drive. take that air.
to this day, i am much happier having this guy then having the air. first, the software i am most used to runs way better and i do not have to compromise drive space by running boot camp or some virtualization software on a mac. since i was running vista as my primary os on the mac anyway, it didn’t make sense to keep dual booting the machine.
while cool is a relative term, i think cool means getting the tech that makes the most sense for you and using it to make cool things. because at the end of the day, it is about what you make with your machine and not what it makes you.
i am not sure how i missed this surface interview demo video at my bff meghan asha’s site.
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zeus jones came out the winner of the phizzpop design challenge in austin at sxsw. manifest digital was named people’s choice.
pictured: zeus jones with two of the judges, meghan asha and julia allison from nonsociety
although i don’t look thrilled here (exhaustion setting in), here i am with my new bff meghan asha and jungle disk at sxsw.
if you wanted to make the perfect technology/new media event and bring it to chicago, what would it look like? last year, i dreamt up the idea to bring an epic and relevant technology/new media event to chicago. however, i moved to a different team at microsoft and, unfortunately, de-prioritized that effort.
so i am back and want to invigorate a conversation with the chicago community on what they see as an “epic” technology/new media event. i am looking for all aspects like how long it should be, what technology should be included, etc.?
comment me up.