A lot of people have been pointing out how ridiculous Microsoft’s new Windows Explorer UI looks but Laurie Voss is the first person I’ve seen that points out the craziest thing about the design: Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the [...]
Is there a tablet market or an iPad market? Will the iPad be the iPod or the iPhone of the tablet world? These are the questions that keep tech pundits up at night (or at least me, it’s 3.30 in the morning and I can’t sleep). In order to answer these questions it seems to [...]
Chris Dixon, Hunch co-founder, clearly sets out Google’s options when it comes to deciding a social strategy.
A week or so ago I emailed Ben Brooks in response to a post that he had written about editing the post slug in WordPress1. My question was what point there was in having post slugs in a blog at all. I understand the use it would have in the context of a regular website, [...]
Great post by Wil Shipley on the difference between starting a company to create a great product and starting a company to win the lottery. This, however, was perhaps my favourite part: Consider, for instance, a man who is heavily vested in Amazon stock. He’s a billionaire. He has a new venture he’s looking at; [...]
Carlye Adler writing for Wired: Chen dropped the concert idea, but later he wondered: What if he had asked people to pay in advance? If enough had coughed up, he could have paid for the band without fronting anything out of his own pocket; if not, he’d have known there wasn’t enough interest and could [...]
Work recently provided me with a Blackberry Bold, and while some things about it are really cool, some things remind you how shitty phones are. People complain about the fascist-like App Store Apple runs for the iPhone but sometimes the level of frustration you experience with other phones makes you beg to be put into [...]
Mandy Brown has a great post that concisely describes the dilemma of advertising and reading on the web. The disruption of the reading experience by advertising is an issue I feel incredibly strongly about and one that has prompted me to adopt a variety of strategies, from avoiding particular web sites altogether to using tools [...]
I have a (slightly pretentious1) story for why legitimate customers dislike DRM. It is a story in four parts. I. Whereupon Our Hero Does the Right Thing One of the most successful PC games of all time is Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft. It has sold approximately nine million copies since it’s release in 1998. It is, [...]