Now, when I say these are three things you have to accept, I mean you have to accept them. Because if you don’t accept them upfront, they’ll happen to you anyway. And then you’ll end up writing one of those documents that says “Oh, we launched this and we tried it, and then the users […]

I have no idea what this is trying to say, or whether a survey of 11 people is statistically significant, but it supposedly contains insights about mobile social networking: Euro IA summit : Mobile Social Networking Insights

(affiliated with the punchcut guys and gals in SF)
By the way, Typophile Filmfest 4 sponsored by punchcut was GREAT. […]

Someone asked why Chris posts screenshots. While his thoughtful explanation makes sense, it can be stated simpler: Skitch & MySkitch.com are the Speed Graphic & AP Newsire of the software revolution. By bringing instant PROOF to user experience through shareable screenshots, Skitch accelerates design, development, and debugging by letting anyone “see what I see”. It’s […]

Innovation : Lessons from Apple.
thanks to barry for the pointer

Ever wonder why some software projects consistently produce great software, and others fizzle out?

I recognize the same tactic that horrid clients at my old job used: create noise and emotion around the issue to distract from the truth.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.turkish/tree/taner+akcam

Fooling casual readers is easy. So is preaching to the choir. Even when you’re feeding your audience outright lies, they’ll eat it up if they want to believe. Sometimes, however, the liars forget that the rest of the world can hear them.

I just discovered an excellently packaged lie while searching for books on Armenia — […]

This just in: Now, when you get an attachment in GMail that’s an Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word format, Google adds a new button next to the attachment that says, “Open as a Google Document”.
This is huge for people like me who don’t have a license for any of the M$ apps and prefer to […]

Fierce Wireless did a story on mobile phone subscribers who aren’t getting the most out of the technical/legislative feature of “porting” your phone number.
I respond:
Unbreakable long-term service contracts and ETFs counteract the utility of number portability in the States — if you can’t break up with your provider for less than $200 - $250, who […]

People who buy unlocked phones like to do things differently.
They have a thirst for the newest toy, the shiniest gadget, the latest feature. This same “Early Adopter” market overlaps heavily with the “Mac Power User” market — hackers and creators who love their Mac because it has today what PCs will have in four years.

I […]