Goodbye Google: "Visual Design Lead" leaves Google
Part 1 of 2 (here’s Part 2) Today is my last day at Google. I started working in-house at Google almost three years ago. I built a team from scratch. I was fortunate to hire a team of a very…
Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?
In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious. As a reminder, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice.…
Paul Buchheit: Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step
Is your web server using using gzip encoding ? Surprisingly, many are not. I just wrote a little script to fetch the 30 external links off n...
JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness
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JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps
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Daring Fireball: PastryKit
The best iPhone web app I’ve ever seen.
The Android Opportunity
So instead of trying to sell half a million phones to *anyone*, try to sell half a million phones to a specific target: people in the market for the latest and greatest phone in the world.
Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman
If there is a lecturer in TCD’s CS department that doesn’t know of the problems and issues Joel just raised in his Capstone Projects post, they’re a rare bird indeed. But what Joe…
The 37signals Effect
Super-fantastic-caveat : Despite the title, this post isn’t really about 37signals, in particular. I’ve used them as an example, only. I probably could have called it the “Joel on Software” effect, too. This post is about all of us who aren’t 37signals, or Joel, and the dangers we face when trying to incorporate…
PPK: "Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid."
In his “ Apple’s mistake ” essay Paul Graham makes an unwarranted assumption; an assumption everybody who’s currently involved in the Great App Store Debate seems to be making.
The curious pricing of the 27" iMac
The more I think and learn about the curious pricing of the 27” iMac , the more bizarre and incredible it seems.
The Anatomy of Determination
September 2009 Like all investors, we spend a lot of time trying to learn how to predict which startups will succeed. We probably spend more time thinking about it than most, because we invest the earliest. Prediction is usually all we have to rely on. We learned quickly that the most important predictor of success is…
The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote
Web standards that have been outlined and classified have totally transformed the internet in just the last 10 years or so, creating an online experience that is more cohesive, more predictable, and a lot more robust.
Is US Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra a Phony?
This is the sort of question you might ask after trying to actually verify his supposed MS in Information Technology from the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The registrar has no record of it. After initially posting this article the degree has cropped up apparently at the nearby University Campus in…
Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring
On Wednesday afternoon I received a thoughtful email from Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller regarding Ninjawords and the App Store, and I think it bodes well.