October 2007
35 posts
Privacy Groups Want Online ‘Do Not Call’ - Newser →
“What has been amazing to watch is that investors keep bidding up the share price...”
– Google is Fifth Most Valuable Company - NYT Bits
The Back Door Into Facebook Ads - NYT Bits →
Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka” -... →
“le style, c’est le truc”
– [via Stephen Fry - Guardian Unlimited]
“A long time ago when we started Apple, there was an incredible focus on the...”
– Steve Wozniak, on the changing definition of innovation in the last decade - LAPTOP Magazine
“I don’t think [Linux is] going to make a big mark. The masses of users...”
– Steve Wozniak, on Linux’s potential in the consumer marketplace - LAPTOP Magazine
“They want to make things easy, and if it seems easy and it can be demonstrated...”
– Steve Wozniak, on the detrimental effect of an unchallenged GUI paradigm - LAPTOP Magazine
“I’m convinced that the key fallacy behind this, and a lot of other...”
– Interpreting Apple - Buzz Andersen [via Daring Fireball]
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
– Paul Rand
WatchPaul Rand Tribute video [via Daring Fireball]
Wakoopa →
Wakoopa’s iPhone-optimized directory of web applications attempts to solve finish the job that Apple chose not to. [via TUAW]
“We all had that Garry Trudeau cartoon that poked fun at the Newton in the back...”
– Steve Jobs, on the cloud of the Newton hovering over the iPhone team - New York Times
An inside look at Apple Retail - Fast Company →
[via TUAW]
“We don’t automatically think about television anymore. There was a time when...”
– Joaquin Hidalgo, VP for global brand marketing at Nike, The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life - New York Times
“Behind the shift is a fundamental change in Nike’s view of the role of...”
– On Nike’s success in new marketing strategies, including the Nike+ product line, The New Advertising Outlet: Your Life - New York Times
LinkedIn Plans to Open Up in a Closed Sort of Way... →
Media Companies Regain Appetite for Taking Risks... →
Did the web fail the iPhone? - FactoryCity →
[via Wired Epicenter]
This Is New York City™ Video →
Phenominal video for NYC & Co, by BBH [via Creativity Online]
Testing designs for color-blindness - Zeldman →
Visual impairments of any sort are an oft-overlooked aspect to useful and accessible web designs.
Whether the issue is serious degeneration (contrast is key), or relatively benign color-blindness, a design should be as carefully and thoroughly tested as the HTML and the IA.
To make this easier, Zeldman points out two very interesting tools: the Mac-only color-blindness simulating web browser...
“The bandwidth consumed by a popular YouTube video, “The Evolution of...”
– Michael Kleemain, on Fixing our fraying Internet infrastructure - CNET
Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: War without end - CNET →
“Everyone seemed able to agree that in the long run, HD DVD and Blu-ray are mere rest stops on the journey toward instant downloads of digital content.”
“Warner Bros. … sees high-definition packaged media as akin to a set of training wheels for digital downloads.”
Tech titans seek virtual world interoperability -... →
“Entertainment, which accounts for 98 percent of all virtual world users and revenue, was not really represented…” according to Areae’s Raph Koster.
As the nascent virtual world industry is still disparate, and fighting for top-dog status, this form of standardization and inter-communication doesn’t look likely to help the bottom line of developers like Linden Labs...
Apple's iPhone-optimized Web apps directory →
It’s ironic that the directory itself hasn’t been optimized for the iPhone. [via TUAW]
Dock 1.6 - AppleInsider →
On the Dock’s origins, influences, and its latest incarnation in Leopard (Mac OS 10.5)
“Apple throws better hardware than necessary into its products. The good side is...”
– Rob Beschizza, on Apple’s catch-22 regarding the quality of its products - Gadget Lab
Downloadable TrueType fonts via CSS now available... →
This will take some time to make its way into a shipping version of Safari, but this is a necessary and long-awaited feature.
Excess Disguised as Less - Print →
The ideal Dock-on-the-side solution for Leopard: A... →
Originally suggested by Paul Kafasis.
Do only Geeks care about the iBrick brouhaha? -... →
Yes.
“The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”
– Samuel Johnson
The Wii will not be able to meet holiday demand -... →
As fantastic (and innovative) as Nintendo is, I certainly hope that heads are rolling over this supply issue. Most of the hardware is of the same generation as the previous Gamecube, and not complicated (or expensive) to manufacture. Is it a supplier issue? Are they unable to pump out the motion sensors (probably the only non-commodity component) in sufficient quantity? If it is another component,...