Nov
24
(via merlin)
A shot of JD
Jonathan Deamer's tumblelog: for when proper writing is just too much effort. if you want, follow me on Twitter or take a random shot.
Nov
7
How much does downloading a book increase the weight of your Kindle?
In case you doubted me, the science to prove that my bag is much lighter on journeys to London.
“You didn’t see Best Buy, Blockbuster, or Circuit City doing anything ground-breaking in video, or Sam Goody or Coconuts doing anything impressive in digital music. Office Depot and Staples haven’t done anything special in online documents. Borders belly-flopped at everything digital. But Barnes & Noble has actually made a serious run in e-books, e-readers, and now color tablets. It may not last, or win, or save the company. In some regards, the Nook is still — as I wrote a couple of years ago — ‘the new Zune’ of e-readers. But it is here, and executing, and relevant. And that’s better than most other legacy retail companies can say.”
The most impressive thing about the Nook Tablet is that it exists – SplatF
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Oct
28
“Whether you are in a relationship or single, working at the office or running your household — we know you’re busy. We’ve handpicked stories & videos from leading magazines and websites so you don’t have to. We throw in the occasional eye candy and racy joke because, well, you deserve it. We get that you barely have time to flip through your favorite magazines, let alone time to stay on top of current events, books, and blockbusters; to gather fitness & beauty tips, parenting & career advice; to discover your next vacation spot or culinary inspiration…”
The app store blurb for the female-focused MSN Onpoint app for Windows Phone is kinda patronising. (via The Appside Bulletin)
Oct
16
“As Manuel Castells, one of the first sociologists of the internet, said: the more autonomous and rebellious a person’s attitudes are, the more they use the internet; the more they use the internet, the more autonomous their lifestyle becomes.”
Paul Mason, BBC economics editor
(via feastingonroadkill)
Oct
12
“Just like Craigslist is being killed not by a Craigslist-like clone but rather by a thousand highly focused replacements, so too Google will face its existential crisis not from another webpage with a centered white box, but from the interface and context of search changing completely.”
Matt Mullenweg
Oct
9
“There’s a very strong culture of building mini-apps and Hubot scripts if it helps with automation. There’s two reasons for why we push hard on this. The first is most obvious: you’re letting a scripted process save you time so you can focus on doing real work. The second is more subtle: automation reduces institutional knowledge. Institutional knowledge leads to a minority group inside of the company retaining answers. That forces new employees to bother those few in order to make impactful changes. It becomes a very verbal, synchronous process, which we try to avoid.”
Scaling GitHub’s Employees
Oct
7
“Amazon can give away the razor because they’re already in the business of selling blades. The other guys don’t even have blades to sell.”
John Gruber (via walpaper)
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