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Edward Tufte's impression of Windows Phone 7
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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My experience of selling the same apps on iOS and on Android (with numbers)
This is a numbers post comparing my experience of selling the same apps on iOS devices and on Android. A few weeks ago, the Android Market m...
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The New Funding Landscape
October 2010 After barely changing at all for decades, the startup funding business is now in what could, at least by comparison, be called turmoil. At Y Combinator we've seen dramatic changes in the funding environment for startups. Fortunately one of them is much higher valuations. The trends we've been seeing are…
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60 percent of Apple’s sales are from products that did not exist three years ago
This chart speaks for itself. Note the bottom two bands and the proportion of the total that they make up. Also note the seasonality with the holiday spikes. This last quarter is not a holiday quar…
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Mozilla Open Web App prototype
The open Web is a great platform for rich applications. It would be even better if it had additional capabilities to ease discovery, acquisition, installat
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Why we moved to Linode
We just moved
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Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core
I've written before about my deep skepticism regarding the true motives of Canonical, Ltd.'s advocacy and demand of for-profit corporate copyright assignment without promises to adhere to copyleft . I've often asked Canonical employees, including Jono Bacon , Amanda Brock , Jane Silber , Mark Shuttleworth himself, and…
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My father in law and sister in law were over last night. I am getting more and more bullish on Android every day. I starting carrying an Android phone about a year ago. I made it my one and only phone over the summer. I absolutely love it. My sister in law who is an […]
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Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping
Exciting News! Wattvision is now shipping the Wattvision Energy Sensor for digital and analog meters. We've graduated from our beta hardware to what you see in
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ZestCash is Not Good.
A couple of days ago, TechCrunch featured a favorable story about a new startup called ZestCash, which provides an online lending alternative to existing payday loans (I'm not going to link to them directly, you can get to them on your own easily enough). The story regurgitates ZestCash's copy about the evils of the…
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Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding
Photo by DeclanTM This article is #7 in a series about startup marketing. The first 6 (not required before you read this one) are available here: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 . I've gone on and on about the subject of pre-launc
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A/B Testing You'll Actually Use: Optimizely (YC W10) Launches Out of Beta
Everything marketing and digital teams need to create content fast, test and personalize, and prove business impact.
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Stack Overflow hit 1,000,000 questions last night
At about 9:26 PM Pacific time, on October 12th, 2010, the millionth question was asked on Stack Overflow . And then promptly closed .
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Too Young to Know It Can’t be Done
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck Ask people what makes entrepreneurs successf…
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$100,000 Revenues in last 12 months - wow
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IE 8 is the new IE 6
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.