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Unattributed thoughts on company culture 16 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
Can’t attribute as it came to me off-the-record, second-hand, and not verbatim, but too pithy not to capture: “All company cultures suck. As the CEO, you get to choose the ways it sucks.” “Your comp...
A smartphone vacation in Indonesia 30 Jul 2013 | 09:17 pm
I wrapped a two week vacation to Indonesia. I took a factory reset Nexus S along with me as my internet lifeline. It’s been a few years since I last vacationed internationally and the entire experienc...
On Google Apps scrapping the free offering 10 Dec 2012 | 09:38 am
From Readwrite In a bid to make things “very straightforward,” Google axed the basic Apps plan, which offered free email, calendaring and documents, plus 5GB of generic Google Drive storage, to up to ...
How Microsoft and Nokia can avoid smothering their spark 30 Jan 2012 | 10:01 pm
At CES this month, Microsoft finally accomplished the impossible. Suddenly, everyone was talking about the Windows Phone. Of course, Microsoft owes much to Nokia for that result, given their gift of t...
Android, the Facebook SDK, SSO, and You 1 Jul 2011 | 08:59 pm
There seems to be near universal misunderstanding of Facebook’s Android SDK and the single sign on (SSO) feature Facebook added late last year. I originally wrote a response on Stack Overflow detailin...
Checkpointing 17 May 2011 | 01:02 pm
To ensure the continuity of this blog’s timeline, let me announce that Friday last week was my last day at Google and I’ll be starting on a new project, the details of which I can’t go into yet, but I...
Southwest Hates Its Customers (‘ Data) 12 Sep 2010 | 10:12 am
I’ve been a user of AwardWallet for a couple months now, a site that keeps track of many of my travel reward programs. You can think of it as Mint.com for loyalty programs. It turns out that I’m far m...
Saying so long to Flickr 12 Oct 2009 | 03:01 pm
My annual Flickr pro account renewal came up last month. Looking at my renewal history, I can see that every time I’ve renewed it, I’ve never done it proactively. I’ve always a month or so after my ...
Playing with PubSubHubBub 14 Jul 2009 | 02:01 pm
This week I’ve been taking a look at the recently announced pubsubhubbub by Brad Fitzpatrick and Brett Slatkin of Google. The duo proposed and implemented a protocol for implementing near-realtime not...
My Kindle’s Biggest Problem 20 Apr 2009 | 03:27 pm
To be fair, the problem isn’t so much one of the Kindle’s. It’s more of a problem with books. I’ve had PDF books for years. PDFs were the cheaper method of getting textbooks for classes that were not ...
