Month: July 2012

Matthew “The Panzer” Panzarino arguing the importance of real-time networks like Twitter: >More power to Twitter, and I hope that its business continues to grow and thrive. But for us, those of us who understand the inherent power in the real-time flow of information, we need to plan a future where Twitter isn’t the only […]

Craig Grannell writing about the annoying (greedy?) practice of iOS gaming developers forcing users to continue to buy things via an IAP, in order to continue enjoying the game. He writes: >They are designed around keeping you hooked through the time investment you’ve put into them, rather than around addictive, exciting, engaging game design. The […]

David Heinemeier Hansson is on a roll — his latest post makes a fantastic point: >We’re breaking down the stranglehold of formality everywhere. No more personal secretaries, memos on official letterhead, meetings that must happen in person. There’s never been less mental mask switching between work and play. We wear the same clothes, use the […]

“I love Twitter the service and I am starting to really dislike Twitter the company.” — Jason Kottke

David Heinemeier Hansson on stock valuations and the collapse of Zynga, Groupon, and Facebook: >So between just these three, some $40 billion has been extracted from the market caps that pension funds and other last-sucker-in-line investors bought into. While, in the process, soured many on the idea of the public markets and enriched investment bankers […]

Andrew Munsell has a pretty funny tale of trying to enter a captcha: those squiggly word-things on signup pages. They have become more and more difficult to solve, because as Munsell notes, computers are getting better and better at being more human with regard to solving these puzzles. Captchas might be one of the more […]

As most saw over the weekend, [Apple released three new ads that focus on their ‘genius’ support team](http://www.apple.com/mac/videos/#tv-ads-laborday). The ads show helpless users of Macs, all wanting to do something, and needing help. There’s been a lot of debate, and over the weekend about these ads, but I never saw the ads, so I just […]

It’s almost to the point now where I don’t expect any new weather apps to be worth even thinking about, but I am glad I gave [S°lar](http://thisissolar.com) a try after [Jon Mitchell](http://twitter.com/ablaze/status/228353678095024128) pointed it out to me on Twitter. Let’s get something clear first, it’s not an ideal weather app for me, but it is […]

“‘Powered by Adobe’ seems more like an apology than an advertisement.” — @mikeysan

Stacey Higginbotham: >Granted, that profit might not be as large as the broadband profits that Comcast or AT&T currently enjoy, but it’s a profit. Woah, wait — Google is expecting to actually profit from Google Fiber. That *is* impressive, I had assumed that they were doing this as a break-even or small-loss business entity to […]