making something delightful
The founders of Gojee have some interesting ideas about how the web will work after the convergence of desktop, laptop, tablet and phone. In addition to bringing content down to its essence, they believe the web should be “delightful, emotional and fast” and they’re working on a cartoon project that will make the site more emotional and help them tell stories.
don’t go half-way
via The Seductive Danger Of Half Measures, by Aaron Harris on TechCrunch: Keeping a conscious eye on what the point of a test or iteration is, not just to itself, but to your overall plan and mission how building a…
total world destructive power
Flickr user Chris Spurgeon has some great pre-lunar presentation slides from NASA, including this chart on the destructive power of weapons through time. His collection also includes several artist renditions of various stages of a mission to the moon —…
the people making twitter love twitter
Dan Frommer on the new, new Twitter: Twitter gets the little things. I love that the “home” icon on the Twitter app is a birdhouse. And that the pencil on the “compose” icon is a quill. Things like that make…
random links found through feedly
This is where I have to give a big shout out to Feedly, my RSS reader of choice, that every morning feeds me a fresh page of content based on my Google Reader subscriptions. Feedly presents the best content from…
a readability triptych from brent simmons
Anyone interested in publishing words on the internet, or reading words that are published on the internet, should read the three essential pieces below from Mac developer Brent Simmons (he publishes the inessential blog). I’ve pulled out some nuggets that…
if you can’t convince them, mock them
Let me start off by saying this: Hey Samsung, go fuck yourselves. If you made a better phone than the iPhone, people would buy it — I would be the first in line to get it. But, you don’t, so…
four keys to apple’s success
Focus— “It means saying no, not saying yes. We do very few things at Apple. We are $100bn in revenue with very few products. There are only so many grade A players. If you spread yourself out over too many…
the kindle fire: this is not for you, tech blog reader
Robert Scoble just posted to Facebook that, “many people will be disappointed to learn that [the Kindle Fire] will not run all applications.” Anyone who would be disappointed by this should not buy a Kindle Fire — it’s not a…
