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Marco.org
GoDaddy, (((Media Temple))), And The Horrible World Of Web Hosting
Web hosting is a horrible business. There’s potential for massive profits: most customers of shared hosting and VPSes never come anywhere near their resource allocations so the machines can be extremely oversold, and most dedicated-server customers keep paying the “new” price of the server every month for years after…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Angela Ahrendts at TEDx Hollywood: The Power of Human Energy
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
For Many Hard-Liners, Debt Default Is the Goal
BBH Labs · Mel Exon
The making of Nike Hypervenom: House of Deadly
Author: Miguel Andres-Clavera, Creative Technology and Innovation Director, BBH Asia Pacific For some time now, artists, programmers and marketers have been seeking innovative ways to collaborate, to blur the line between art and technology, thereby creating complex systems that merge the real world with the digital…
Wondermark · David Malki !
Check out: Max Temkin on values
A few weeks ago I was pleased to attend XOXO in Portland, which bills itself as “an arts and technology festival celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love.” It was a really fun time, and I got to meet great people and demo the Machine of Death game [...]
Subtraction.com
Nielsen Norman Group’s iOS 7 User-Experience Appraisal
The venerable usability experts weigh in: “Is iOS 7 fatally flawed? The short answer is no. Simply because there is no such thing as fatally flawed designs: we can always learn from mistakes. What’s surprising is that we don’t learn from someone else’s mistakes: Apple ignored some of the hurdles that Microsoft…
ParisLemon
Redesigning The Disney World Experience
Redesigning The Disney World Experience : Cliff Kuang on Disney’s subtle, secretive effort to redesign the Disney World experience for visitors: This represents a new frontier for design. Over the past 30 years, as every facet of our lives, from shopping to schooling, has migrated on to computer screens, designers…
Dinosaur Comics
honestly quite happy with my phrase "pornographic sex movie" and intend to use it at every opportunity in the future
archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - about← previousOctober 7th, 2013nextOctober 7th, 2013: Thanks to everyone who came out to IndieCade and to our little event last night at the Time Travel Store! I believe everyone had a good... time?? I hope you enjoyed that pun; I am a professional…
A List Apart: The Full Feed
Rachel Andrew on the Business of Web Dev: Pricing Underpins Everything You Do
Over the last four years, my service business has become a product business. During the transition, I’ve had a chance to reflect on the uses and pitfalls of each model. Hindsight is a wonderful thing—I can now see that many of the difficulties we experienced as a service business could have been avoided with a…
Future Perfect · janchip
Your Face Here
As many of my friends appreciate I’m camera shy. Partly it’s a desire for privacy, and partly it is because more photos makes my work …
Waxy.org Links
Lavabit case unsealed, FBI ordered founder to give up SSL key
he defied the order, facing $5k/day in fees before closing the service; support his defense fund
Inside Facebook · Guest Post
7 simple Facebook contests to run on timeline now
Facebook page managers are jumping for joy now that Facebook no longer requires contests to be run via 3rd party apps. Businesses can now easily run contests on their page timelines and manage the results themselves....
RescueTime Blog · Joe
Introducing the New RescueTime
If you are an individual RescueTime user you have probably noticed that your RescueTime Dashboard looks a bit different! I am very excited to introduce to you the combined product of many years of user feedback and many months of development efforts – the New RescueTime. This is a quick blog post to go over […]
PingMag : Art, Design, Life - from Japan · Tom Vincent
EarthBound: from a "reckless" video game to the Hobonichi Planner
Last month’s article about the Hobonichi Planner generated a lot of interest, and both PingMag and the Hobonichi office have received all sorts of wonderful emails and messages from around the world. Among them, a lot of people have expressed surprise that something as simple as a day planner would create such a buzz…
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
The easiest way to disagree with someone
...is to assume that they are uninformed, and that once they know what you know, they will change their mind. (A marketing problem!) The second easiest way to disagree is to assume that the other person is a dolt, a...
The Art of Non-Conformity » 3×5 · Chris Guillebeau
Audit Yourself to Improve Your Circumstances
From time to time, it's good to sit back and ask yourself a few questions. Here's a starting point. *** Are you
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Chris Liversidge
Content Curation: Pruning Old “Fresh” Content To Reveal The Evergreen
Neven Mrgan's tumbl
The Meaning of Match Cut
There were three of us: Greg Maletic, Alex Pasco, and yours truly. And then there was the fourth, Cabel Sasser. We wanted to jokingly “catch him up” on movies we figured everyone should see, and he hadn’t. So we rented out a movie theater, kidnapped him from work (blindfold and all), popped him in a red velvet seat…
Google Commerce · Commerce Blog
Google Shopping Express now available to all San Francisco and Peninsula Shoppers
ParisLemon
Fox News hires tiny little humans to work on gigantic iPads
Fox News hires tiny little humans to work on gigantic iPads
Schneier on Security · schneier
How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID
MakeweekendMakeweekend · Soo Theng
Makeweekend Education – TFM
Teach for Malaysia (TFM) has a group of young hearts and minds who have the utmost motivation as well as passion to make education sustainable. Aiming to use education to break the chain of poverty, they uphold the element of education sustainability by focusing on 3 key points which revolves around, 1.…
Subtraction.com
Introducing Facebox
Today my friend Matt and I are releasing Facebox, a pack of fifty, rights-cleared stock photos of real people for user interface design and business presentations. For a limited time, you can buy the pack for just US$25. So how would you use Facebox? Let’s say you’re designing any digital product in which the concept…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
How the White House Sees the Shutdown and Debt Ceiling Fight
Alek: thoughts, sights, ideas · Alek
From Today My Name is "Alek USA"
timoni.org
Worth Less than a Cup of Coffee
Worth Less than a Cup of Coffee: “Another approach – and I would argue a more insightful one – is to learn about the nature of the market we’re working in. And not only about the market as an abstract whole, but about the value of our products specifically. The economic reality is that most apps offer next to no…
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
The rundown: New products and features announced today at the #GASummit 2013
Becoming Databetic · Doug
Catching Up: ITP Thesis & Quantified Self
The last few months have been rather hectic here in NY and I’ve fallen behind on posting. But I wanted to give a quick update on my work with Databetes. In May, I wrapped up my graduate studies at NYU’s … Continue reading →
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
ē Overstating the Consumerization of IT
Marco Arment, in Underscore Price Dynamics: This is the real reason why Apple doesn’t care about upgrade pricing: there’s no demand from customers. The market has shown that free apps will be downloaded at least an order of magnitude more than paid-up-front apps, and smart use of in-app purchase in a free app is…
Marco.org
→ Sponsor: Raygun.io — better error tracking for your apps
Raygun.io is the fastest and easiest way to track your application’s errors and get the level of detail you need to fix crashes quickly. Notifications are delivered right to your inbox and presented on a beautiful dashboard. Integrates in minutes: Raygun supports most popular languages and frameworks, including…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
How BlackBerry Blew It: The Inside Story
ParisLemon
Steve Ballmer bids tearful farewell to Microsoft
Steve Ballmer bids tearful farewell to Microsoft: You simply have to watch the video Tom Warren posted from the event. It’s surreal. A man, alone on stage, in the spotlight, in the middle of dark KeyArena (the arena in Seattle where the SuperSonics used to play). And that somehow seems fitting given that it was more…
Blog | Ushahidi · Chris R. Albon
What WWII Bombers Tell Us About The Marginalized And Vulnerable
There is a (probably apocryphal) story that is often told to young quantitative political scientists. During World War II, US Bomber Command was losing dozens of planes on each mission. Every bomber was expensive and crew member highly trained, so keeping them alive and flying was a top priority. To protect the…
Blog | Ushahidi · natmanning
Wide-angle lens – Thoughts on what Ushahidi has to do with International Development
In light of all that is going on in Nairobi, I took a step back and started thinking about what it is we do here at Ushahidi, beyond the products, the code, and the community. We often get lumped into this greater industry of International Development, even though we talk about ourselves as a non-profit […]
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done
kottke.org · Jason Kottke
Easy NFL/Netflix/Hulu region unlock using DNS
OPEN URBANISM · debbie ding
Very-nearly but Not-visiting Stonehenge
The Morning News - Headlines
September 26, 2013: Afternoon
Yesterday in diplomacy: Iran’s new president acknowledged the Holocaust did occur. Small but growing business emerges for $120,000 “designer” American babies provided by surrogates to China’s elite. Banner Poison Control Center in Arizona reports two cases of flesh-rotting drug’s use, believed to be the first in the…
ParisLemon
Amazon's Kindle Fire Press Release Is Made Of Tweets
Amazon's Kindle Fire Press Release Is Made Of Tweets: This makes a lot more sense to me than being forced to write (and read) long-form platitudes and hyperbole. At least keep it short and sweet.
Marketing Interactive News Feed
Guidelines for Personal Data Protection out
Singapore - Personal Data Protection Commission has released a guideline for organisations and individuals to refer to the Personal Data Protection Act 2012. Here's what you should know.
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
THE GRANDMASTER: Moving forward, turning back
DB here: The summer has brought us two major films by the two leading Hong Kong directors. I’ve discussed Johnnie To’s fine Drug War earlier. Now it’s time for some ideas about The Grandmaster. Wong Kar-wai’s film displays, in fairly straightforward ways, some of his typical artistic and commercial strategies. Here…
Daring Fireball · Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
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Marketing Interactive News Feed
Why pitching isn't just about creatives
Singapore - Rather, it should be a time to assess an agency's competencies and chemistry, says Mangham Gaxiola's Stephen Mangham. Here's how the agency worked this out with its Greenfields Milk client.
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
ē What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong
There’s no question Clayton Christensen, who developed the theory of disruption, is Silicon Valley’s favorite business school professor. For me, diving deep into his thinking in a corporate innovation class was a breath of fresh air from management theory that explained all of corporate America but for its most…