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Relivo Media – Very Bad Experience 4 May 2013 | 09:21 am
Over the years I’ve worked with a number of contractors. Blinding choosing contractors can be tricky. Generally, I try to go through friend-of-a-friend recommendations, or at least by some other form ...
What a Difference a Few Years Makes 8 Feb 2013 | 01:02 pm
I’ve neglected this blog for a while, but was just reading back though it and thought one series of blog posts was particularly interesting. Back in early 2009, I met a husband/wife iPhone developer t...
The Web: Filters on Top of Filters 20 Feb 2012 | 08:29 pm
In January, John Gruber linked out to a Jason Kottke interview who characterizes the web as filters all the way down: It’s much easier to find interesting things to read and look at online than it us...
Getting Rich, Following that Dream, Being Happy 14 Jul 2010 | 09:03 pm
I found a question/response thread on Hacker News to be quite interesting. The question was “how did your life change after FU money”. FU money being a term for enough money that you have complete fre...
Google Trying to Become Microsoft, HP Trying to Become Apple, and Apple, well, is still Apple 22 May 2010 | 06:26 pm
It’s been a busy week for Google with the announcement of a number of new initiatives. If there was any doubt about the growing animosity between the two companies, there is none now. Google spent a l...
MacRumors Turns 10 Years Old 25 Feb 2010 | 09:55 pm
So, MacRumors.com turned 10 years old yesterday. Brian Chen at Wired did a great write up on it. 10 years is a long time — especially on the internet. I’ll post some more thoughts on it all later.
Free In-App Purchases Will Change…. Little? 16 Oct 2009 | 06:10 pm
Apple’s announcement that they are going to start letting free applications sell in-app content seemed to be a big one. Even game changing. But, the more I think about it, the more I think there will...
App Icons are Itty Bitty Banner Ads 23 Jul 2009 | 08:13 am
An old blog post I wrote last year about a decades old humor article on icon design is actually remarkably relevant to today’s App Store market. Years ago, Apple published a developer magazine. I don...
Followup on Another Quitting Story 18 Jul 2009 | 05:37 pm
A couple of months ago I mentioned a husband and wife team that made up Imangi Studios who I met at GDC. Keith had quit his full time job a year prior while his wife Natalia had just given notice in A...
A Year Later… 11 Jul 2009 | 05:50 pm
So, it’s already been a year since I quit my job and dedicated myself to web projects, and it’s gone really quickly. I’ve kept myself very busy during that time, probably a bit too busy. I have absolu...
