About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Today, Google & Apple are the dominant tech corporations with Microsoft & Nokia struggling to be more than also-rans. The open internet is under continual attack and we, the citizens of the web, continually work for free. My library of cyberpunk and dystopian sci-fi did not prepare me for this day. Or perhaps – we …
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Dear ebook backers, For too long I’ve been uninspired to write – and for too long, I’ve been sufficiently distracted by a small child (well, three of them). Over the weekend, I found a new vision for the ebook project. Something much more timeless than what you’ve already read. Something more representative of my adventure …
Earlier this week, Albert Maruggi asked for my comments on the reported decrease in Facebook users and the increase in corporate Facebook stores. As always w/ Albert, it was an enjoyable conversation that he included as part of his ongoing Marketing Edge podcast. Listen to me and Albert Maruggi talk Facebook stores
“The user interface has to evolve to be much less email-like, and everything has to get way easier than it is now.” – Brent Simmons
“it doesn’t seem like an all together bad time to be off Twitter.” – Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary
Tonight I read two articles, one on: how bloated and complicated the latest version of Ruby on Rails is how Javascript is the new must learn language Separately and combined, both are such a mind grenade it can only mean one thing.
“Loose federations of heterogenous interests with high incentives to integrate are so much more interesting than centralized organizations.” – erikpukinskis
“The only difference is most of the users won’t ever know they were deeply and constantly betrayed. Users got so much used to crap, so they forgot how to differentiate between starships and crap.”
My neighbors have a fantastic garden gnome. Turns out, it hit a rough patch a while back and needed significant repair. Immediately I knew this story needed a commemorative beer. This Belgian Dubbel Rye is dedicated to that Broken Gnome 10# Belgian Pilsner Malt 2# Rye Malt 2# Belgian Biscuit Malt 1.0 oz Crystal hops …
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“We believe that [URL shorteners] pose a serious threat to the internet’s integrity. If one of them dies, gets hacked or sells out, millions of links will stop working. Thus we preemptively release backups, because URL shorteners are too busy to make backups themselves.”