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There's no shame in looking good
Aesthetics have a bad rap in geek circles. CmdrTaco infamously slammed the original iPod with “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame”. In other words, it’s all about the features and the functionality. If you don’t do more than the other guy, you’re useless. I don…
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This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern...
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Emissions of richest 1 percent more than double the emissions of poorest 50%
The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the 3.1 billion people who made up the poorest half of humanity during a critical 25-year period of unprecedented emissions growth.
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The natural evolution from side project to full-time business
Some have doubted our advice that you should hold on to your day job and start something on the side. They argue building a business requires such persistent effort that you need to devote all your time to it to do it right. And it’s true that building a business requires plenty of time an…
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Balsamiq - A look back at 2008
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Sometimes having nothing to lose can be a real advantage for a startup
espite being coastally challenged (currently living in Philadelphia), Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – an Internet…
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The early days: How 37signals built buzz out of the gate
When 37signals first started out, we didn’t make products. We did client work. From the beginning, we allotted plenty of time for side projects. Things that would get us attention (eNormicom), experiments with new ways of selling our services (37express), ways to show off our design thinki…
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The Untold Millions
The media is biased towards stories that want to be told. This is especially true about the media covering the web world. It’s much easier to write a story about Facebook, Google, Youtube, or any of the other limelight stories where much of the juicy details are willingly shared. We have s…
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Why People Don’t Install Firefox - Part III
In Part I we discussed a framework around understanding the Firefox user experience at the moment a person installs Firefox. In Part II we walked ...
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How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards
We build the best deployment and testing tools money can't buy. There's no prohibition on performance!
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iReddit: The official Reddit iPhone app arrives
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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