First HTML5 magazine. From Berlin! (via aside)

May 16 2011

“When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out that intelligence was not as important as we expected. If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.”

— Paul Graham - Money Man - Entrepreneur.com (via bijan)

Mar 25 2011 201 notes

Khoi Vhin (@khoi) about the current wave of personal “magazines”:

I’ve criticized print magazines for bringing a disastrous lack of imagination to their iPad apps, so it’s only fair to criticize pure-play digital products like Flipboard and TweetMag for relying too much on the trick of pulling in content from my social graph and re-presenting it to me in a more elegant form.

I couldn’t agree more, but they probably will at some point become more relevant than static reproductions of paper mags, that bring any value in comparison to something that I can buy & throw away in a heartbeat.

(Source: subtraction.com)

Mar 24 2011

“So now we get into something of a problem of terminology, because more than likely, Steve Jobs doesn’t consider Apple’s approach to be “design thinking”. Yet he’s the consummate example of one who’s built an organization on its promise. This approach of risk taking, of relying on intuition and experience rather than on the “facts” provided by spreadsheets and data, is anathema to most analysis-influenced C-suite members. But you need this kind of champion if design thinking is to gain traction and pay off.”

— Design Thinking Won’t Save You « Helen Walters

Mar 23 2011

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This Slow Company idea is something worth thinking through a little more. Nice start by Lucius Kwok

There’s the Fast Company magazine*. There’s the Slow Food movement. Let’s start a Slow Company movement. The idea is to take ideas such as the lean startup and organic growth and apply it to the companies we run. It’s not going to be a runaway success, but you have a better chance of actually…

Mar 22 2011 113 notes

“Just think what else could have been done with the time and resources that the company devoted to the pay wall: entirely new news products could have been developed, products that could engage a wholly different kind of audience and expand the company’s reach by several orders of magnitude.”

— Subtraction.com: What the NYT Pay Wall Really Costs

Mar 20 2011

John Gruber about self-hosted weblogs:

That’s how DF itself works — and has always worked — thanks to Movable Type’s default static publishing mode. I do run on a higher-end server today (thanks, Joyent), but software-wise, DF works exactly the same today as it did back in 2002, when it was serving 100 page views a day.

I’d say why not host it?

Mar 18 2011
(via Flickr Slideshows for the iPad)

(via Flickr Slideshows for the iPad)

Mar 18 2011

The Future of Hardware Is Services?

I worked with enough hardware companies that we tried to get ready for services and on their way they forgot the user experience. I’d say after hardware consider first the user experience and if you got this under control extend into services.

Mar 18 2011

“Berlin with its huge and ever growing number of startups, where companies like our darlings at Soundcloud, the incredible machine of Citydeal/GroupOn Europe, the gaming champs at Gameduell and Wooga reside, is one of the most vibrant startup hubs of the continent that continues to draw more and more attention from investors and entrepreneurs alike.”

— Seedcamp: Mini Seedcamp Berlin 2011 - 14th of April

Mar 18 2011

“Sure, you might not create a new app on it, and there’s still not Photoshop on iOS. You can’t bake a medium-rare roast in a microwave, either.”

— iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing | Techinch

Mar 18 2011