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CSS Transforms for the win! The UI of Clear done with HTML5 and...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:24:43 -0800

CSS Transforms for the win! The UI of Clear done with HTML5 and CSS.

Amazing. Apple is outperforming the competition by such a huge...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:01:44 -0800

Amazing.

Apple is outperforming the competition by such a huge margin that UBS is taking Apple out of the S&P 500 to get a more accurate picture of the tech market.

The results are striking: For all the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index, earnings are on track to post a 6.6% year-on-year rise in the fourth quarter. Once Apple’s earnings are factored out, the expected fourth-quarter gain shrivels to just 2.8%, according to UBS.

(via Apple’s Size Clouds Market)

SNL: Verizon Wireless “A nightmare for old people”

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:52:34 -0800

SNL: Verizon Wireless “A nightmare for old people”

I put together a playlist of the Top 50 available albums from...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:57:00 -0800

I put together a playlist of the Top 50 available albums from the KEXP variety playlist for January 2012.

Social Media Explained

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:54:00 -0800

Social Media Explained

The Flaming Lips created a new work using Siri as one of the...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:38:29 -0800

The Flaming Lips created a new work using Siri as one of the performers along with Erykah Badu. Love it.

An impressive slope. iPhone and iPad contribute to a...

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:20:02 -0800

An impressive slope. iPhone and iPad contribute to a $100 billion spike in revenue for Apple in under five years.

(via Apple’s $46 billion sales set new tech record)

"In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average..."

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:13:43 -0800

“

In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle.

But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.

Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra — their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.

Average is over.

”

- Thomas Friedman

"To succeed as a TV station, you need an audience of 1m+, as a paper, 250k+, as a writer, 50k+ and as..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:55:22 -0800

“To succeed as a TV station, you need an audience of 1m+, as a paper, 250k+, as a writer, 50k+ and as an artist, a mere 10+.”

- @alaindebotton

I love this – thousands of tiny people hold up a glass...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:53:35 -0800

I love this – thousands of tiny people hold up a glass floor.

by artist Do Ho Suh

I love seeing the shifting trends in computing (via The rise...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:36:05 -0800

I love seeing the shifting trends in computing

(via The rise and fall of personal computing)

An Important Time for Design

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:50:05 -0800

An Important Time for Design:

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products.

I love the sentiment here, but I think this goes beyond just “designing cool shit.”

It is partnering technology with someone that understands how people think. How to make something meaningful, that maybe, maybe, maybe changes their lives.

"I used to think that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to..."

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:32:40 -0800

“I used to think that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you’ve got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.”

- Nick Hornby / High Fidelity

Steve Jobs rumored to have shot down Push Pop Press for iBooks Author

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:16:58 -0800

Steve Jobs rumored to have shot down Push Pop Press for iBooks Author:

This makes complete sense. The similarities of iBooks Author and Push Pop Press are pretty striking. I had wondered why Facebook had acquired them.

Making Love to WebKit

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:31:46 -0800

Making Love to WebKit:

A pretty cool example of what is possible with WebKit.

"The HR cost of landing an individual programmer might be $50-100k for a large company. That’s taking..."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:20:17 -0800

“The HR cost of landing an individual programmer might be $50-100k for a large company. That’s taking into account advertising, headhunter fees, interviewing time and internal staff”

- Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - CNN: Why I am learning to code and you should, too (via johnallsopp)

The #dickbar segment from The Context where Brian and Chez...

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:34:27 -0800

The #dickbar segment from The Context where Brian and Chez introduce the first every Dicky award for worst mobile design.

Making Money in Mobile

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:24:00 -0800

Making Money in Mobile:

Great write up by Tim Bray on how you make money in mobile. Which can be summarized with his two takeaways:

First of all, the number of people making serious money selling apps is pretty small. Second, that doesn’t matter very much, because we’re so early in the game that we don’t know how it’s going to shake out.

Another choice remark is his comment that today’s mobile apps are a race to the bottom:

Selling anything on a one-time basis at a price below $10 is historically the kind of business that’s been owned by companies like Walmart

This is something I’ve previously written about as well as did a talk at iOSDevCamp Seattle, while some things are changing, most has stayed the same.

Essentially the way you make money in mobile hasn’t substantially changed in over ten years, you just don’t have to work through a carrier. This question is currently at the heart of this trillion dollar industry, but it isn’t about mobile, it is about how you add value to peoples lives. And that isn’t constrained to just your devices.

How many apps have you published?

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:37:06 -0800

How many apps have you published?:

Interesting poll on Hacker News about how many apps developer are publishing. What is more fascinating is comments below on the performance on different platforms.

An interesting and informative visualization of mobile operating...

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:48:07 -0800

An interesting and informative visualization of mobile operating system market share around the world. Handy for planning your app’s global domination strategy!