December 2010
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November 2010
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June 2010
1 post
The [REAL] Current State of Web Design
solipsism:
unimatrixzxero:
bradleyjoyce:
The text before the link in the tweet said “Web Design Trends 2010” and since I’m in the field, I clicked. I had to laugh out loud when I saw the title along with this view (15” mbp)…
May 2010
2 posts
Tim O’Reilly on venture capital
Inc. Magazine via Kottke:
O’Reilly says he sometimes wonders what would have happened if he had raised venture capital and given his company a chance to get really big. But he sounds more amused by this question than truly troubled by it. “Money is like gasoline during a road trip,” he says. “You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to...
April 2010
12 posts
“It isn’t the mountains to climb that wear you out, it’s the pebble in your shoe.”
– Muhammad Ali
“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Whither ChromeOS?
Remember ChromeOS? Google’s once highly-touted browser-as-operating-system was going to be a Really Big Thing in the netbook space. But as a friend pointed out to me today, we haven’t heard bupkis about it in a while now.
There are two extremes in product development: the Apple Way, where you say nothing about what you’re working on, torture and kill anyone who spills the beans, slave away in...
Secrets of the biggest selling launch ever →
The ever-enlightening Seth Godin:
Apple reports that on the first day they sold more than $150,000,000 worth of iPads. I can’t think of a product or movie or any other launch that has ever come close to generating that much direct revenue.
He then goes on to identify ten things Apple did — and does — to make it happen.
If you work in marketing and don’t read Godin, you should. The guy’s...
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The old guard doesn’t “get” the iPad
Some folks still don’t get it. First, Cory Doctorow ranted about how the iPad is evil because it’s not all Open Sores or something. Then there’s that notoriously cranky curmudgeon Dave Winer:
And pragmatically, experience has shown that the winning computer platforms are the ones you can develop for on the computer itself, and the ones that require other, more expensive hardware and software,...
While Apple changes the game, Microsoft changes a... →
Might as well cut to the chase and name it “Windows Mobile Irrelevant.” Thanks for playing, guys, now just go away already.
March 2010
9 posts
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend.
Inside of a dog, it’s too dark...”
– Groucho Marx
Watershed, or Waterloo?
I’m hoping there’s a silver lining for Conservatism in yesterday’s passage of sweeping healthcare “reform”: a realization by Republicans that the noisemongers in their lunatic fringe have been leading them into the wilderness; that all the shrill-yet-empty obstructionist bloviation of the last twelve months did nothing more than rally House Democrats — from Blue Dogs to socialists — against them.
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Seth Godin: Driveby culture and the endless search... →
When your audience has the attention span of a ferret on espresso, is it really worth chasing eyeballs?
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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the...”
– Douglas Adams
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ABC's unmitigated gall
To: bob.iger@disney.com, george.bodenheimer@disney.com, anne.sweeney@disney.com, rebecca.s.campbell@abc.com
Subject: Good riddance, WABC
It’s the epitome of greed to demand millions of dollars from cable customers for something you give away for free over the air. Have you no shame?
With most Americans struggling just to make ends meet, you and your stockholders get no pity from us....
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“The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and...”
– Scott Adams