Author Archive | Ken McCarthy

Dinner was great… but who’s going to do the dishes?

Beyond Glamour – Part One:

It’s the unglamorous, but necessary, details that make the world go ’round.

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Who’s your personal computing hero?

Steve Jobs or Bill Gates?

There’s never been any competition as far as I’m concerned.

New product demos from the master…

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/specialeventoct05

(Watch for the Video iPod demo at 22:32)

Enjoy!

– Ken McCarthy

P.S. …

“They laughed when I sat down at the piano, but when I started to play…”

It’s one of the most famous direct response headlines of all time.

Ad legend John Caples wrote it when he was still in his twenties.…

In 1994, I ended a talk I gave about the future web with this statement:

“Someday we’re doing to look back and wonder how we ever got a long with such primitive technology.”

As I looked at the videos on …

Is video magic?

Let me ask you a different question…

Is the Internet magic?

Not that long ago, some business people actually thought that the Internet was magic.

They believed ANYTHING you put up on the Internet would work.

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Just a quick note…

You might find this interesting

It’s an article I posted to my blog.

It puts video on the Internet into a historical perspective.

It’s called “Internet Version 4.0”

The blog is here:

http://www.kenmccarthy.com

The exact URL …