Michael Doan

The Verge has a video of Windows 7 streaming to an iPad that is “a desktop complete with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and mulititouch apps, far smoother than your average remote desktop solution.”

(I couldn’t get the video to work)

Steve Jobs’s commencement speech at Stanford in 2005:

One of my all time favorite videos.

See, I’m not an Apple fanboy. I would love to get a HP TouchPad, but I’m not sure what I would use it for.

From the NY Times:

FreeWheel reported that four-fifths of all mobile video views happen on Apple iOS devices. The iPhone and iPod touch each account for about 30 percent of all video views that happen on mobile devices, with the remaining 20 percent being attributed to Android devices, according to the report. Other devices account for less than one percent of all video views on mobile devices, according to FreeWheel.

All this without Adobe Flash. Imagine that.

I found this video on Eric Kim‘s website. It’s a profile of New York street photographer Joe Wigfall. He said something profound in the video about his desire to be a photographer:

You don’t kill a part of yourself because you can’t make a living at it.

The Leica M9 Titanum will set you back $27,000. This is what it looks like to open the box for the first time when it arrives at your palatial estate:

In this video from Accounting Today, Mike Sabbatis, CEO of CCH discusses mobility in the accounting industry (around 3’55″). Sabbatis sees mobility going beyond content (e.g. CCH Master Tax Guide, Accounting Research Manager, etc) and pushing into productivity tools.

“We see mobility in a number of different area…From a device standpoint we should be somewhat device agnostic”

Because this website focuses on iOS (iPad and iPhone) you may be surprised to hear that it’s really music to my ears when Sabbatis is pushing for content and productivity tools to be “somewhat device agnostic”. iPad and iPhone may be the hot device today, but I am more interested in the ability to work untethered from a desk (or office) than which device I am using to do my work.

Full Disclosure: I use to work for CCH and have worked with Mike Sabbatis. I’m slightly bias.