Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1hEducation and enterprise customers moving to Googlebook, an inevitability, right now don't yet know how much that's going to cost. And at this point, the tools to manage those devices won't exist until late next year. This is a well-timed rollout […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 010
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026On this day in 1964, the Tokyo Olympics opened, and a Hughes satellite called Syncom 3 carried the world's first live international Olympics TV broadcast. One satellite got the Games across the Pacific. Now the whole world streams live to my phone. (Sources […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 003
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026apple "intelligence" vs. actual ai 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026I think a lot of people are missing the entire point of "being able to vibe code your own solution." It isn't to vibe code a smaller version of a SaaS model. It's to make things that work just for you. The way you want them. Deterministic software will not survive in a non-deterministic era […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026"I use AI to do the things that I'm bad at." Prefect framing, Linus Torvalds. 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026On this day in 2006, Google announced it would buy YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. YouTube had 67 employees at the time, and Google said YouTube would keep running on its own. Twenty years later, it's where you're probably watching me. (Sources: Google, AP) #TechHistory #YouTube #Google 110
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Today is World Post Day - 5 Facts! • It marks the founding of the Universal Postal Union in Bern, Switzerland, in 1874. • The UPU Congress in Tokyo declared it World Post Day in 1969. • More than 150 countries celebrate it every year. • There are more than […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026oh, not only does macos golden gate look like shit, it operates like shit, too! glad they kept the "best" parts of tahoe. federighi deserves a raise and promotion for this. 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026Sometimes, not knowing how to do something is the best way to do it. 001
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026The problem is, Google doesn't have a few years. They get rid of things quickly if they're not working. #Googlebook #Chromebook #Google #ChromeOS youtu.be/Rm5S4QyFFW0 010
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Today is Fire Prevention Week - 4 Facts! • It marks the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. • Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Fire Prevention Day for October 9, 1920. • Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the first National Fire Prevention Week in 1925. • This year's […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026On this day in 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Computer Technology stamp to mark ENIAC's 50th anniversary. It was dedicated at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Ever stuck one on an envelope? (Sources: Computer History Museum, Mystic Stamp) #TechHistory #ENIAC #Stamps 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026I better watch out because if you say Googlebook three times, a Googlebook appears. Gemini just said... three timers! You just can't make this stuff up, folks. #Googlebook #Gemini #Google #AI youtu.be/Rm5S4QyFFW0 011
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026me think this no official, but me also think it is good 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026On this day in 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Computer Technology stamp to mark ENIAC's 50th anniversary. It was dedicated at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Ever stuck one on an envelope? (Sources: Computer History Museum, Mystic Stamp) #TechHistory #ENIAC #Stamps 010
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026On this day in 2007, two people on my live stream argued about how many computers belong in a house. One wanted a single big machine running virtual machines. The other wanted a few smaller ones, each with its own job. My Mac mini was mostly a dedicated […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026ChatGPT recommended my event, ctrl-alt-create live, so I must have been doing something right. That's how the world is shifting. youtu.be/EOjaRendQT4 #ChatGPT #AI #Google 011
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Commodore 64, BASIC V2, 64K RAM system, 38,911 BASIC bytes free, ready. 38,000 bytes and change. That's all the room your program gets. #Commodore64 #RetroComputing #C64 #VintageComputing youtu.be/YnI-e_S4ZNw 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Today is National LED Light Day - 4 Facts! October 9, 1962: GE's Nick Holonyak Jr. made the first practical visible-light LED. Coworkers called it "the magic one." Red and green came first. Without blue, there was no white LED light. Blue stumped everyone […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026I have completely abstracted Google Calendar as much as possible. I had to record our reservations to see Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass (!!!) and knew that the calendar app would be a pain in the ass for it w/o Gemini. So, I just copied the email, pasted it into Gemini, and had it interface […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026On this day in 2011, a LockerGnome community member asked me whether to wait for Windows 8 before buying a laptop. My answer: if you need one now, don't wait. If you can hold out, save up for one with a touchscreen. A capacitive touchscreen Windows computer […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Do you trust information more from a human being or from AI? 90%, is that enough? Is 90% better than the average human? So what number is the right number for you, and has it always been that number? youtu.be/EOjaRendQT4 #AI #Google #ChatGPT 011
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Google announced Playground (with Unity Spark coming): "If you can think it, you can play it. Create, play, and share custom games — no coding required." "And because it’s browser-based, you can play these games on your phone or laptop." But nothing is […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Some people suck the marrow out of life, I suck the marrow out of Claude. Okay. That sounded way better in my head. 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026Siri's not better than Gemini, in any way, by almost any measurement apart from being able to control your Apple device, which it does an okay job at anyway. I've tried Siri, again and again, not just over the years, but specifically now being a part of the […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 001
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026On this day in 1942, Chester Carlson was granted U.S. Patent 2,297,691 for electrophotography. Four years earlier, in Astoria, New York, his first copy said only: 10.-22.-38 Astoria. That scrap became the photocopier. #OnThisDay #TechHistory #Patents 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Apple's first foldable, the iPhone Duo, opens for pre-orders October 16. Back in 2023 my foldable video landed on this line: "the flippable foldable revolution is the mullet of smartphones." Business in front, party in back. It's at 14:51. youtu.be/qhxlDLKyR2A #iPhoneDuo #Foldables #Apple 001
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Today is National Noodle Day - 3 Facts! * Chicken Ramen, the world's first instant noodle, went on sale on August 25, 1958. * In 2005, Space Ram, ramen made with JAXA, flew on Space Shuttle Discovery. * People eat more than 100 billion servings of instant […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026If you still like using Google, but you want to avoid AI overviews altogether, there's a trick. Once you go to a search result page, add ampersand udm equals one four. For the time being, that only surfaces text links. Now there's Google Classic […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 002
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026This is your annual reminder of the true reason we celebrate Prime Day. 001
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026I'm just concerned that a lot of the content I see is less true from passionate people and more from disingenuous interests. Driven by algorithms, not passion. youtu.be/3P1bjHLFuxI #ContentCreator #Algorithm #Marketing 100
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Google's DNA is changing. The world is changing. It doesn't matter whether or not you like the way it's happening. It's happening. youtu.be/EOjaRendQT4 #Google #GoogleSearch #AI 011
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026Today is World Teachers' Day. 4 facts (UNESCO): 1. The world needs 44 million more teachers by 2030. 2. 15 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa alone. 3. The share of primary teachers quitting each year nearly doubled, from 4.6% in 2015 to 9.1% in 2022. 4 […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026On October 5, 2011, I saw an AP tweet saying Steve Jobs had died, checked it against Apple's own site, and went live and talked it through with all of you for over an hour. Fifteen years ago today. #OnThisDay #SteveJobs #Apple #TechHistory 001
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026This is NOT good news on the Googlebook launch day. 100
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026I had a chance to try Google Glass for the first time at the very first VloggerFair that I produced here in Seattle and I was enthralled. But people didn't accept the Google Glass. I would have easily been a glasshole. youtu.be/kvX77i2XwcM #GoogleGlass #SmartGlasses #Glasshole #TechHistory 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026CGI SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE GOING TO RUIN HOLLYWOOD do you see how stupid that sounds? 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026Have you seen the Great #Pumpkin for #Halloween? arcade.pirillo.com/great-pumpkin.ht… 010
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026like a phoenix, rising from my coffee sludge 010
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026I tell you what: it's a hell of a lot easier to be an entrepreneur when you have a partner who is able to show up in ways you can't to survive. When it's just you, the road is 100 times as difficult. I always take entrepreneur advice with a grain of salt because you often don't know what support […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026i love playing the autumn night game of "where the fuck did my dog just shit" 010
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026My patience for watching lengthy explainer videos has now dropped to zero. I'll pass that shiz to AI faster than you can say "transcribe." Unless you make it visually compelling or your personality isn't that of a wet paper bag... 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026This isn't me. But it's me. LOLmastodon.social[Audio] Original post on mastodon.social 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026I think people deserve to know that they are being recorded. There's no commonality of not just expectation, not just social acceptance, but like to know, oh, it's a green light right there. That means I'm being recorded no matter who's wearing or what the […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026I finally get to be the house that hands out full-sized candy bars on #Halloween! Found these MrBeast Super Mario Feastables on sale for 10 cents apiece. Wound up grabbing over 50 of them. They were marked down because something sticky spilled on them. Kids […] [Original post on mastodon.social] 000
Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026I'm walking through the grocery store with my phone in hand. I was staring a little too long. There was a little platform on the floor and on that platform, like a metal grate of sorts, and I stepped on the grate and tripped. youtu.be/kvX77i2XwcM #StoryTime #GroceryStore #CaughtOnCamera 000