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Life in Perpetual Beta

“A documentary film about how technology is changing the ways in which we think about ourselves as individuals and as a society.” Nice crowdfunded first film work by the Chicagoan Melissa Pierce.

Featuring: Melissa Pierce (director of the documentary) * , Chris Saad * , Jeffrey Zeldman (Zeldman.com, HappyCog) * , Baratunde Thurston * , Juliette Powell * Seth Godin * , Biz Stone (Twitter) * , Brian Solis * , Liz Danzico * , Xuanlan Nguygen * , Carin Goldberg * , Loren Feldman * , Jeff Pulver * , Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV) * , Liz Strauss * , Jim Coudal (Coudal Partners) * Avner Ronin * , Jake Nickell (Threadless) * , Jason Fried (37signals) * * , Tatiana DeMaria * , Nova Spivack * , Carlos Segura * , Kevin Lyman * , Dan Pink * .

(full interviews available on the project blog or clicking the * )

August 27 2011 | 2. Bookmarks | No Comments »

History of Apple’s Graphical User Interfaces

On Monday at BetterSoftware in Florence, Balsamiq’s Marco Botton gave a talk on ‘why he loves software’ going back to his childhood in the ’80s and his memories of the first Apple Macintosh in his house. While he talked about how he fell in love with the Mac, I remembered the beautiful presentation by John Gruber at Webstock this year on the history of Apple’s graphical user interfaces. Recommended watching.