September 2008
19 posts
Making money twice →
Good write up from Jason on how 37signals makes a lot of money (about $765,000) by thinking smart and long term about their content.
My Dad says "Bend Over America"
My Dad, Jim Fling, sent me his thoughts on the Wall Street crisis, the state of the economy and why we should all be saying, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
My Dad is a smart guy, but he hasn’t figured out how to use the blog I setup for him yet, so I’m going to publish what he sent me here as I think it is a nice summary of the last...
T-Mobile, Google finally unveil the first Android... →
The T-Mobile G1 was announced today, the first Android device to ship.
Here are the details in brief…
The device will be the HTC Dream
It will have a larger touchscreen & and physical slide out keyboard
It will use T-Mobile’s new 3G network in 16 markets (EDGE everywhere else)
Wi-Fi
One touch access to Google apps
It will include the Android Market, a mobile app store...
“Those Republicans sure know how to raise kids.”
– Me to Cyndi I’m not sure if I was joking or not
Everybody needs one →
“The pride of the Taizhou Lion King Signal Co. Ltd”
mobiForge →
dev.mobi is now mobiforge.com. The site looks great and is much better organized for those looking to get started in mobile.
Congrats on a great job to the entire dotMobi team!
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world... →
Heroku →
One of my biggest complaints about Ruby on Rails is that it’s a major pain in the ass to get up and running if you are just starting out. It seems like you spend more time dealing with servers then trying to figure out what is going on.
Enter Heroku which allows you to build and a deploy a Rails app with no setup or configuration. It taps into Amazon’s EC2 for elastic scaling and...
“And of course… the App Store. I’m pleased to announce that users...”
– Joshua Topolsky Engadget from today’s Apple Event
WatchJon Stewart on Sarah Palin’s Supporters
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Google Chrome →
An interesting new concept in browsing from Google—and explained in comic book format. The open source browser will be announced on Tuesday.
Here is the short run down of its features:
It’s Open Source.
It’s based on WebKit.
It includes Gears.
It has an entirely new Javascript Engine called V8, designed for multi-processing.
Each browser tab is a process. So you kill a tab...