High-res
High-res
This is what the long game looks like.
via ventureswell
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Negotiating 101: Steve Jobs Style
Talk about “no compromise”.
Speaking of Man of Steel, the new trailer is decidedly darker.
“Sergey is Bruce Wayne, and I’m Lucius Fox.”
Amazon to pay royalties for fan fiction
Todd Bishop on the new “Kindle Worlds”:
The company says it will license rights to popular books, games, movies and other content to let independent authors write their own stories based on those worlds, and receive royalties from sales of their fan fiction through the company’s Kindle Store.
Seems like a smart idea. Though I have to imagine the most popular worlds, like Star Wars, would never agree to this.
The Virginal Man of Steel
Dave Itzkoff talks with director Zack Snyder about his upcoming Superman film:
What drew Mr. Snyder in as he first read the “Man of Steel” script (while Mr. Nolan and his wife and producing partner, Emma Thomas, waited in his driveway) was a vision of the character that felt both classical and contemporary. On the one hand, Mr. Snyder suggested that for Clark Kent to be fully fleshed out, not every moment in his maturation needed to be depicted.
“We assume that Clark is not a virgin — I do,” he said. ” You don’t see that, but that’s the assumption.”
I love the notion of Snyder telling his producer (and wife) and Christopher Nolan to “wait in the car” while he goes to read a script.
[via @anthonyha]
Amazon’s new downtown Seattle offices will be biospheres. Awesome. Bio-Dome awesome.
Learning From Los Gatos
Steven Johnson responding to a New Yorker column by George Packer:
Sure, companies went public or sold for staggering sums, but companies have been going public or selling out for generations without creating tens of thousands of millionaires along the way. The defining difference between Silicon Valley companies and almost every other industry in the U.S. is the virtually universal practice among tech companies of distributing meaningful equity (usually in the form of stock options) to ordinary employees. Before companies like Fairchild and Hewlett-Packard began the practice fifty years ago, distributing stock options to anyone other than top management was virtually unheard of. But the engineering tradition that spawned Silicon Valley was much more egalitarian than traditional corporate culture.
Many great points here.
Flickr, Vimeo integration likely baked into iOS 7
Nice scoop by Mark Gurman. Makes sense to me. I was always surprised that Apple didn’t move to integrate Flickr into iOS when they already did so on OS X with iPhoto. Let’s just hope this helps alleviate the photo management nightmare.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook was facing a Congressional panel today with tough questions about the way the company has organized itself in an effort to lower its tax burden. But at the end of the questioning, John McCain had something else on his mind. That, friends, is what we call a softball.
The quintessential question of our time.
