July 2010
June 2010
Amazon, Woot, and You: But Mostly Woot →
Amazon acquires Woot.com. One of the funniest acquisition announcements ever.
“This is definitely an emotional day for me. The feelings I’m experiencing are similar to what I felt in college on graduation day: excitement about getting a check from my folks combined with nausea from a hellacious bender the night before. I remember fondly that time when an RA turned on the lights and yelled...
foursquare: We're just getting started... →
This is amazing. Congrats to foursquare! Now lets see those new fangled products you’re talking about!
Hey all - It’s been quite the year for foursquare. Last year at this time, Naveen and I - tired of working around my kitchen table - borrowed a desk from our friends at Curbed.com and Hard Candy Shell. Two months later we brought on our first hire (Harry!) and a few weeks after closed...
The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut : The New Yorker →
I’ve not read the Millennium trilogy yet, only seen the movies, but something tells me this parody is spot on.
The New iPhone 4.1 →
Fixes all issues regarding signal quality and reception. From the press release: “With the new Magic-Enhancement-Band from Apple, the iPhone just got better with the new and improved iPhone 4.1. It will be more greater than evar before imagined! Your life will never be the same. You’ll be able to enjoy a new technology, only available from Apple, Voice-to-Voice communication over 3G...
What Happens When You Auto-Tune a Vuvuzela? →
Auto-tune + Vuvuzela + The Final Countdown = GOLD.
Donovan scores in the 91st minute and USA...
A VC: The Credit Card Expiration Blues →
It’s issues like this that make me sad PayPal was bought by eBay. I bet the pace of payment/merchant innovation would have kept up if PayPal was independent and forced to compete and grow to stay alive.
Now it seems that PayPal is happy to just be just another available payment option instead of the market leader.
“This credit card expiration thing is a big issue when so much of our...
Plain English Beginners Guide: How to Jailbreak...
Apple has just released their new firmware update for iPhones, iOS 4.0. It comes with a lot of nice improvements to the OS. You can read about all of the changes here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/iphone-os-4-0-unveiled-shipping-this-summer/
However, the biggest bummer for owners of the iPhone 3G, like yours truly, is that the best feature of the new update, multitasking, isn’t usable...
“However, on at least six occasions during my tests, the new iPhone was either...”
– New iPhone Keeps Apple Top of Class - WSJ.com
i’m still going to get the new iphone but this line from Mossberg is a heartbreaker.
(via bijan)
Dave Delahaye: My Internet Campaign To Destroy... →
Are you kidding me? This is how ALL of the networks are, not only AT&T.
slackr:
i feel your pain bro
Openbook - Connect and share whether you want to... →
Using the Open Graph API to show how much information people really are posting publicly. I am pretty sure this isn’t what Facebook envisioned when they launched the the Open Graph API.
WatchNew Futurama premieres on June 24th! Cannot wait!
thedailywhat:
First Look of the Day: The first 90 seconds of the first episode of the highly-anticipated new season of Futurama, which premieres Thursday, June 24, @ 10 / 9c on Comedy Central.
Hooray!
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“Anyway, we’d like to leave you with a little bit of friendly advice. Relax....”
– A pep talk for our fine friends from the UK - Page 2 - ESPN (via fillup)
Apple's Worst Security Breach: 114,000 iPad Owners... →
Oh yikes. Good job AT&T.
theinternetaccordingtoadrian:
ronworkman:
siddman:
The breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson...
LukeW | Designing for Mobile First Helps with Big... →
“When you are working with a 320x480 pixel screen (iPhone, Palm Pre, first generation Android phones), 80% of the screen space you had at 1024x768 is gone. That means 80% of the content, navigation, promotions, and interactions needs to go. And that’s… great.”
52 Weeks of UX: Commander's Intent →
There is a wonderful section in the book “Made to Stick” that applies 100% to interaction design. It is the section on what is called “Commander’s Intent”.
The book describes Commander’s Intent as a tactic the U.S Army uses to prioritize decision making. As you might imagine, it’s…
Netflix Strategy Deck →
The latest amazing deck from Netflix, this time regarding their future strategy. The clarity of the vision as outlined in this deck is astounding. I feel like I know Netflix’s goals inside and out and how they want to get there and I don’t even work at the company. Really good communication from management to the entire company and team.
fillup!?: My breakdown of tonight's Lakers-Celtics... →
Lakers:
1. Andrew Bynum: Career Game. Thank you. Nobody can ask any more of this guy…except I hope he has something left for games 3-7.
2. Pau Gasol: I won’t say “career game,” but I think you definitely got your job done tonight. What did you play, like 43, 44 minutes? Good for you.
3. …
Scott Adams Blog: The Value of Ideas →
“You’d be hard pressed to come up with an idea so bad that it couldn’t succeed with the right execution. And it would be even harder to imagine a great idea that couldn’t fail if the execution were left to morons.
Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”
The infestation of the abstract business model. →
davidkaneda:
Put simply, business model abstraction is where someone other than the user bears the financial cost of a product or service: ie the product revenue is abstracted from the users of the product.
Layton Duncan with some insight on the inherent flaw in free services like Facebook and Twitter.
Web Development For The iPhone And iPad: Getting... →
"Sentence first — verdict afterwards" →
1. Apple enforces a previously undocumented app store rule.
2. Apple removes an app that it previously approved.
3. Previously Apple defending developer is the victim of the latest ambiguous policy change.
4. Developer changes their tune.
The best thing that will happen for developers and consumers in general is the strengthening of the Android platform. I can’t wait for the Android...