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TECH B Y S U N N Y B AT E S myTouch HTC Android Phone “I can type faster on this flip-out keyboard than I can on a screen.” S H I RKY ’S FAVO RIT E A P PS BBEdit “I write almost everything in BBEdit, as well as programming, with it. I started using it in 1995, never seen a reason to switch.” Keynote “For presentations. I never do anything fancy with it, but the ‘it just works’ interface saves me the agita of spending a lot of time on simple slides.” Google “I am basically Google’s lackey — I could list 10 apps that start with a capital G. I use Chrome, and in Chrome I run Google Mail, Google Calendar, Google Groups and Google Docs. If they had Google Dentist Appointments, I’d use it.” Kayak “Best airline app ever. I love Kayak so much, I have all but stopped flying JetBlue, since they have decided to hide their tickets from Kayak.” Netvibes “My one-stop shop for news and commentary: Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Boing Boing, Crooked Timber, Slashdot, 3 Quarks Daily and so on.” Kindle “I’ve owned two actual Kindles, but I sat on both of them, so now I just use the Kindle app. Right now I’m reading Bruno Latour’s ‘Reassembling the Social.’” Plants vs. Zombies “Plants that kill zombies — what’s not to love?” Subway Passes “I keep passes for cities in the Geek/ Wonk Axis: NYC, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, London.” CLAY SHIRKY: CAMERA PRESS/SUKI DHANDA; OYSTER CARD: CAMERA PRESS/ED/AJ; CABLES: © RALFPOLLER | DREAMSTIME.COM EVERYWHERE MAN With his 2008 best-seller, “Here Comes Everybody,” Clay Shirky explained social media as a force that would transform business, politics, marketing, social behavior and personal relationships. Written before Twitter had gained a broad following, the book provided a remarkably accurate and insightful road map of what was about to unfold. For Shirky, a journalist and professor at New York University, the book’s success anointed him a digital sage, as governments, businesses and think tanks around the world sought his counsel on the new communication revolution. The book’s 2010 followup, “Cognitive Surplus,” presents an equally compelling vision of the near future, in which online collaboration ushers in new forms of commerce and culture. Emailing in from cities around the world, Shirky shared with us how he works while traveling the globe. Accolade LG Flip Phone “This old-fangled phone has no feature fancier than a camera but the battery lasts forever, and I can’t stand talking on a phone the size of a bar of soap. I never make calls on the Android; I never use the Web on the LG.” MacBook Air, 11-inch “My shoulder loves it, since I was starting to list to the left after a decade of weighing 5 pounds more on that side.” Ziploc bag of cables “Like a Patsy Cline song, each cable has a sad, sad story to tell — mostly about what happened when I didn’t have that cable.” Find other high-tech gadgets perfect for travelers at . / T H E R I T Z - C A R LT O N M A G A Z I N E 41 http://www.DREAMSTIME.COM http://www.ritzcarlton.com/magazine

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Winter 2012

Ritz-Carlton Magazine - Winter 2012
Contents
Contributors
Editor’s Letter
President’s Letter
Falling in Love With ... Hong Kong
Design
Auto
Technology
On the Boulevards
Shopping
Jewelry
Watches
Palm Beach
Wellness
Santiago

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