Posts tagged with Thoughts
User-Centric Development
When Adobe announced this week that it is no longer trying to make Flash viable on mobile platforms, there was a good amount of developer talk on the ramifications. In particular, some on Hacker News lamented that they could no…
The Early Life of Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs came out this week, and I along with most of the iBook + Kindle population started digesting the pages upon its digital release. There's something to be said about a man&…
How I Evolved my RSS Reading
Ars had an article today on how RSS is no longer a sane way to consume news; I also saw Marco (of Instapaper fame) posted how he has changed his RSS habit for "sane RSS usage", namely by…
Don't Design and Code
There has been an ongoing debate on whether designers—web designers, to be specific—ought to be able to code their designs. This article, for instance, re-ignites the debate. I guess the combination of designers moving onto the web en…
Blind Hindsight
How many times have you heard about stories like Excite having a chance to buy Google, back in 1999, for $1 million? Or, if only someone not named Bill Gates got the rights to distribute MS-DOS for $75,000, Microsoft…
The Value of Quora
A few days ago, I ran across this post commenting on the decline of Quora, at least in mindshare and media coverage. While this conclusion is dubious based on raw traffic numbers, my own anecdotal use has steadily declined since…
