What Jobs told me on the iPhone | Technology | Guardian Unlimited Technology David Sobotta writes a blog that is about as close to mini-MSFT for apple that I’ve seen. He doesn’t dish the dirt the way that Mini does, but he does shed light into the murky corridors of power on the infinite loop. [...]
Computing | Work-life balance | Economist.com interesting article on companies adopting Google apps for their needs. One quote did stand out however: “I have a staff of about 30 people dedicated to security,” says Mr Sannier. “Google has an army; all of their business fails if they are unable to preserve security and privacy.” Google’s [...]
Hey remember in the early days of the internet when people figured out that Netscape and IE would let you play a background MIDI or audio file? Remember clicking on a link to open a page and then getting up to get a cup of coffee (’cause we were all on 28.8k modems back then) [...]
here it is I don’t doubt Mr. Gutmann’s scholarship, nor his motives. The scenario he paints seems extreme. Extremely stupid. Now, I worked on Windows Media many years ago, and I can totally see a document like this coming out of that group. There were many good and smart people on that team, but they [...]
Springwise: new business ideas for entrepreneurial minds. This is a great site, always worth a visit. They just did all their tops of 2006 lists. I went through all of them so that you don’t have to: Covering up IKEA: a company that sells high-quality slip covers for Ikea furniture. Garden offices for lawn commuters: [...]
The beauty of Google is that they never release anything. Almost all their software is in beta, which absolves them of almost all sins: if the software doesn’t work or if they want to come out with new features every day or if they want to yank it entirely, they can. It was never released! [...]
I wasn’t feeling particularly introspective at the end of the year, so instead, here is some of the music I really dug this year (according to my iTunes favorites of 2006 smart playlist)
