February 2012
1 post
“No, you don’t really have a privacy.
What you care about, I’m...”
– Seth Godin
September 2011
1 post
Put This On: Hey, Put This On: Why Are You... →
putthison:
Some folks have wondered why we’re funding season two of Put This On through crowdsourcing. It’s a relatively new way to fund creative work, so a few people have been confused and a few people have even reacted strongly negatively. Many more have reacted strongly positively, of course. Still, I…
Great content deserves to be paid for.
July 2011
4 posts
1 tag
“well over half a million new apps have been built in three years on three...”
– Horace Dedui
“Just because I can search for an answer to a question instantly, doesn’t mean I...”
– Kourosh Dini
“It makes me wonder if the whole notion of property ownership enables our...”
– James Shelley
April 2011
1 post
Remiel: Friday, Rebecca Black, and celebrity hate →
lonelysandwich:
Required reading, this one. Remiel has a great head on his shoulders. And great hair on that head, but that’s besides the point.
remiel:
I love “Friday”. Unabashedly. I hope Rebecca Black makes a million dollars from it, her debut album is a Gaga-caliber hit, and she marries her dreamboat, Justin Bieber.
When I first heard “Friday”
I thought “This is quite possibly the worst...
March 2011
3 posts
3 tags
OS X Apps I Use & Love
I use my iPhone and iPad everyday but I still love sitting down at my Mac and finding and learning about cool apps and utilities. It’s also the place where I immediatley go for when I need to get some serious work done (school essays, photo/movie editing and large brain dumps into Omnifocus) Here’s a list of Mac OS X programs I love and depend on:
Dropbox - seamless sync &...
From The I Didn't Know That Department
From Appleinsider on the iPhone 5
“Cellular and Wi-Fi data will reportedly travel through the logo, just like Wi-Fi does on the iPad.”
Thats interesting, I had no idea that the Apple logo on the ipad was where the wifi signal travelled through. It does make sense for Apple to go this route.
August 2010
2 posts
Mac OS X explains Inception →
This is really great.
5 tags
Additional Thoughts on E-Books
Kevin Rose has a great video on his blog here sharing his thoughts on how to take e-books to the next level. Watch it here.
As an avid e-book reader myself (both on Kindle & iPad) I have to agree with Kevin on all his points. Of course not all e-books have to implement these interactive features but some books seem just made for them.
One feature I would like to see implemented myself is the...
June 2010
1 post
“Since you’re going to ship anyway, then, the question is: why bother...”
– Seth Godin
April 2010
1 post
“When you can’t figure out the best way to treat all your customers, the best way...”
– Seth Godin
“In fact, after a week with the iPad, I’m suddenly wondering if any other company...”
– Andy Ihnahtko
March 2010
14 posts
“The problem is not information overload
……
If it was, you’d walk...”
– David Allen
“Brilliant editors and venture capitalists have the ability to get excited about...”
– Seth Godin
“Revolutions are like that. They invent and destroy and they only go one way....”
– Seth Godin
“Why is British and American TV news becoming more domestic in a more globalised...”
– Tyler Brule
“Every hard drive in the world will eventually fail. Assume that yours are all on...”
– John Gruber
Apple Marketing
“Apple has been able to generate over $75 million in revenue in one day on a product that 99.9% of purchasers haven’t touched or for that matter, even seen in person,” said Victor Castroll, an analyst with Valcent Financial Group. “And, we’re still three weeks away. That is amazing.”
“Yes, asking questions is often more valued than answering them. (If they’re the...”
– Seth Godin
“It’s important to find the balance between real-world reproduction and usability...”
– Marco on designing software to look and act like it’s physical counterpart
“No matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t do better than 99%. So we switched our...”
– Seth Godin
“Their point is that ‘lots of things get better as they get shorter.
Directors...”
– Unknown
“Very few people wake up in the morning and feel like taking big risks or feel...”
– Seth Godin
“Five minutes a day you might do exceptional work, remarkable work, work that...”
– Seth Godin
January 2010
4 posts
“Four years after we posted our first homemade videos to YouTube and they spread...”
– Damian of OK Go on their record label’s stupid insistence on prohibiting embedded playback of their new video. (via Merlin) (via marco)
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr
“I’ve been offered films – a lot of films, in fact – with seriously high...”
– Neill Blomkamp, Director of District 9
“Jesus. People, it’s an airplane. You get on, you sit in a chair, they take you...”
– Fake Steve Jobs
December 2009
7 posts
“If you set your goals ridicously high and it’s failure, you will fail...”
– James Cameron
2 tags
Rogers On Demand Online
“We’re live! Rogers On Demand Online now up for all Rogers/Fido customers: http://rogersondemand.com/”
Did Rogers just release a service to customers without charging them? Looks like they did, maybe they are finally getting it. The Canadian telecommunications industry seems
to have done a complete 180 from a year ago. Here’s why:
1) the big 3 networks all on the world...
kung fu grippe : On ‘Conspicuous Compassion.’ →
Another great piece by the one and only Merlin Mann. Big bonus points for the Seinfeld clip at the bottom.
““Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad. The device was...”
– Will Shiply quoting Mike Arrington
November 2009
8 posts
“No gifts, no guilt. Universal, even if it’s not celebrated on the same day...”
– Seth Godin
“Am I taking crazy pills, or is signing an email mostly reduntant?
Take...”
– Adam Lisagor via Twitter
“When you choose that path, you get clarity. Everything is simpler. It’s simpler...”
– Matt at 37 Signals
Lefsetz Letter » Pricing →
If the music industry wants to curb piracy, I thinks getting lots of people paying small amounts would be a step in the right direction. Instead they’ve gone the opposite direction with $1.29 for a new song on itunes.. which is now no longer an impulse buy for me.
Can we all just agree that Tina Fey should be running television.
Three things about Marco Arment →
Another great piece by Merlin, this time Marco, the developer of Instapaper, one of the most useful things i use today.