Archive for the ‘infurious’ Category

MWSF2008: The Good, the Bad and the Fugly

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Every year we wait for the new and sparkly stuff from Apple and we often get it. The move to Intel. The iPhone. the 17" and 12" Powerbooks wayback when. This year is no different. We have a new subnotebook, software updates and a glimpse into Apple's plans for ...

16/100 Empower Your Best Customers

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

In most cases, every customer is already empowered. They can choose whether or not to do business with you. In some cases, as in the case of a monopoly holding, a company may not have a choice about whether to do business with you. For example, any business operating in ...

Tom Raftery on the Nokia N810

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Tom Raftery rips Nokia a new one with his review of the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. Last summer there was a huge amount of interest in the Nokia tablets after the 770 was available for a knockdown price. I was about to go on holiday for a week and couldn't ...

10 principles of good design

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Dieter Rams' 10 principles for good design: Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design helps us to understand a product. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is durable. Good design is consequent to the last detail. Good design is concerned with the environment. Good design is as ...

Twice Shy?

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Michael Arrington wrote on TechCrunch about the twice-shy entrepreneur. In the article he writes more about the difference between entrepreneurs from Bubble 1.0 who watched everything disappear down the pan... The intense pressure entrepreneurs were under to get revenue at any cost led them to make decisions that, with hindsight, were blatantly ...

companies lose their best people routinely, almost as a matter of policy

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Nick Corcodilos writes for Infoworld: Companies are madly trying to hire skills, not talent. They want to harvest fruit overnight. Give a smart IT worker some manuals, a workstation, an objective, and a little time, and they'll come up to speed every time. That requires strong leadership. But if you leave it ...

Gnostics

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Don Reisinger, a freelance technology journalist, writes for MacNN: Once it hits a critical level, the cell phone carriers may mobilize and we’ll realize just how ridiculous cell phone contracts and AT&T really are. Enjoy your iPhone now. But soon enough, you may be wishing you bought that Treo. Nope. I love my ...

Linux is perfect.

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Mark Pilgrim moved his parents to Linux because their Mac experience was souring.: I had originally chosen Kontact/Kmail for their email needs, but I ran into some strange bug where Kmail refused to send messages. Basic functionality, right? You’d think someone would, you know, notice. I realize email standards are wide ...

Social networks make us more stupid

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

David Brin writes for EDGE on their 2008 question: I certainly expected that, by now, online tools for conversation, work, collaboration and discourse would have become far more useful, sophisticated and effective than they currently are. I know I'm pretty well alone here, but all the glossy avatars and video and ...

Content Theft, alive and well. (One for the Cocoa fans)

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Cool, I didn't know you could just grab entire articles from the IntarWeb and publish them wholesale without even giving an attribution link! That's what Rixstep has done? Scott Anguish, one of the nicest guys on the Intarweb is more than a little upset because Rixstep has repeatedly refused to remove his ...