December 2011
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Juicy Bits
michaeldswanson: Most of my friends know that I’m always working on side projects. And if you don’t know what side project I’m currently working on, that doesn’t mean that I’m taking a break. It just means that I’m being quiet. ;-) This side project began as an experiment in March, 2009, and over the past 2½ years, it’s become my new full-time job. Read More A great post from former...
Dec 21st
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10 Recurring Themes from LeWeb'11
These are collected wisdom from various great speakers at LeWeb 2011, including Daniel Ek (Spotify), Sean Parker (Founders Fund), Dennis Crowley (Foursquare), Phil Libin (Evernote), Dave Morin (Path), Kevin Systrom (Instagram), Kevin Rose (Milk), Bill Gross (IdeaLab), and Ben Parr. 1. Execution is everything. No offense to innovation, but 95% of success lies in execution. 2. People are great...
Dec 21st
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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“You know, everybody has a cell phone, but I don’t know one person who...”
– Steve Jobs, according to John Lasseter (Pixar).
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told...”
– Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz) I don’t think I want to be in a future that Google thinks is ideal.
Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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The Origin of Twitter Hashtag
how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?— Chris Messina™ (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007
Dec 11th
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“In a world where Facebook and Google are competing on features and getting more...”
– Ryan Sarver at LeWeb 2011
Dec 9th
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Twitter for iPhone: A History →
Highlights Here’s some highlights from the awesome article by Jeremy Stanley. I choose to highlight some releases that I think is influential to the iOS community. Tweetie 1.0 - Nov 18, 2008  Brings endless scrolling as the new standard for iOS apps to load more stream/feed-like contents. Tweetie 1.1 - Dec 15, 2008 Introduces custom tweetie:// protocol in Safari, just because the iOS...
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 7th
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Unethical Opportunists
It took me some time (and help) to come up with that name. But, I think it suits perfectly to the developer of MoonCraft Mine, a new iPhone app which has just been released an hour prior the writing of this post. Looking at the screenshot on the AppShopper’s page, we can immediately learn that this is a complete rip-off of the original Minecraft.  Here’s how I found out about it. I...
Dec 6th
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