Facebook is making improvements to the auto-sharing (from apps) behaviors. We’ll see if it’s enough.
Less is more.
Apple’s supply chain must be simply amazing: “The only company on Gartner’s list of 25 companies that turns over its product faster is McDonald’s”
“There’s only one rule I know of: You’ve got to be kind.” —
Kurt Vonnegut, cited in Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist. Einstein would concur. (via explore-blog)
This, and: Always try your hardest.
I love dark chocolate, and it loves me.
Please don’t share shtuff to FB “on my behalf”. Turntable.fm moving back in the right direction.
Mary Meeker’s internet trend presentations are always fascinating, particularly for data geeks. The latest from today. But I’d love to see more talk about non-advertising-based monetization models. It’s clear that building a business on a one-time transaction 99 cent app is a fool’s goal. So what then? Ultimately somebody other than Apple and game studios and those with business/products optimized for ads will need to make money on mobile, else innovation will dry up… right?
“It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.” Sigh. Very much the same thread that Joe Kraus pulls on in his wonderful ‘culture of distraction’ talk I posted yesterday. Let’s fix this.
Awesome post from Dan Grover on the challenges on bridging vision and ideas to execution. Such an unheralded skill. Love that he calls b.s. on the whole “technical” vs. “non-technical” functional distinctions.
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Gorgeous. Hmmm, will make an awesome gift for a loving wife…
Parts 1 & 2 of The Telegraph’s interview with Jonathan Ive.
Important thoughts on our culture of distraction, our love of our devices, and how we might re-gain some attention. From Joe Kraus. And from Tony Schwartz. Love that people are talking about this more and more.
First person to build a tool to migrate links from del.icio.us to the new bitly has my business. But also lessons to be learned about the risks of adding features that add complexity.
Integration at the scale of Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype is fraught with risk, … and opportunity.
Tim Cook: “We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.”
“I think subconsciously people are remarkably discerning. I think that they can sense care.” — Jonathan Ive
“Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he’s a little bit of an asshole and no one invites him to their pool parties.” — Ze Frank
