About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
“I get the feeling that all of Google’s products were invented for Google to help streamline the way it does things.” – yellowbkpk Exactly. Just as I wrote about Google’s AppEngine last year, Google’s applications – whether Gmail, Wave, Maps, or the recently announced Buzz – are about reducing costs and streamlining their business. In …
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I woke up a to an inspiring post from Michael Janssen, one of Cullect’s biggest supporters: “Still, I hope Cullect can come back in some form in the future, as it was hands down the best reader that I had ever used.” Wow. That means a great deal to me. Cullect was originally built during …
The DJIA’s eratic-ness (regular 100pt fluctuations then flat for weeks) has me looking for another metric of economic confidence, like a stronger US Dollar. (What’s with the Dow, S&P, and NASDAQ following each other in lock step?) Back in August, Pete suggested the reason the DJIA was climbing was the same reason oil prices were …
“It is just a tragedy that we are taking QWERTY into a new era of devices” – Alec Longstreth in a Wall Street Journal article on this topic. “The solution was to place commonly used letter-pairs (like ‘th’ or ‘st’) so that their typebars were not neighboring, avoiding jams. While it is often said that …
When the first rumors of the iPad began circulating – I immediately dismissed them on the grounds it wasn’t clear to me how a tablet fit into Apple’s deliberately simple product line. I’m still not convinced it does. It could be argued there’s enough space between the iPod Touch and the Mac Book for another …
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Sometimes you could use a small boost on a web project. Maybe the small boost is help refining a use experience design. Maybe it’s quickly building out the first version of a new web app. Maybe it’s simply having access to a trusted advisor on a regular basis. These projects don’t require a full-time user …
This marks hour 4 of setting up ImageMagick & RMagick on my MacBook Pro – without MacPorts (MacPorts and I had a falling out years ago). In an effort to save all of us that time, here’s how I got ImageMagick and RMagick working on my MacBook Pro running 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Download and unpack …
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Here’s my ongoing list of homebrew beer ideas that seem like interesting explorations. If you know of existing beers or recipes that explore some of the ideas below – leave a comment. Thanks. A non-Stout coffee Beer- Most compelling combination thus far: Monsooned Maibock Basic Brewing ‘brewing w/ coffee’ podcast mentions the monsooned malabar. An …
“I shut down a whole bunch of experimental Twitter apps. I feel a phase ending. I don’t see Twitter as my platform.” – Dave Winer In my work to bring Cullect back from hiatus, I’ve been doing a full code review and asking myself what should stay, what should be fixed, and what should go. …
David Crossland (Cantarell font family, Open Font Library) and I dive into font licensing – specifically open font licensing – and the cultural benefits of open licensing. Links and topics we mention: Open Clip Art Library Creative Commons and the CC0 License GNU Public License with Font Exception SIL International SIL Open Font License MIT …
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