May 2012
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How to Live Well →
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Steve Jobs On The Payoff Of A Great Employee
The following sound clip is amazing and so very true. This is one of the many reasons TENDIGI doesn’t outsource to any other countries. 25:1 is a great ratio and I think a lot of businesses and startups that outsource their software development are certainly nowhere near 25:1. There are language, cultural, and time-zone barriers that prohibit outsourced software teams from achieving that...
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“The overall effect often is to legitimize false claims in the public eye through...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)
April 2012
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“My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from an interaction...”
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Steve Jobs take on Google's Project Glass
As soon as I saw the video for Google’s Project Glass I instantly recalled a funny story from my time at Apple. I was once at a Town Hall meeting in Cupertino where Steve Jobs commented on this type of wearable computing. An Apple employee in the audience asked Steve a question to the extent of: “How can we reach out to our leadership if we have a really good idea”. Steve...
Instagram CEO learned to code at night. →
Instagram has been acquired by Facebook. This article has some really good info on how the CEO of Instagram, a former day time marketer, spent his nights learning to code. Fellow tech entrepreneurs, it’s time to pick up a practical skill like programming if you haven’t already.
“That’s what’s wrong with PHP.”
– http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
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Google X Offices
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/google-begins-testing-its-augmented-reality-glasses/ When I read this:
Project Glass is one of many projects currently being built inside the Google X offices, a secretive laboratory near Google’s main Mountain View, Calif., campus where engineers and scientists are also working on robots and space elevators.
All I can think about is this scene from...
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iPhone Users Disgusted by Android Instagram →
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“Another appeal of smaller firms is fewer management layers and leaner staffs,...”
– http://adage.com/article/agency-news/small-shops-creative-poach-talent-bigger/233857/
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“We have bent as individuals past the point that any of us thought we could...”
– http://www.inc.com/khary-cuffe/how-hustling-can-give-you-laser-focus-in-business-and-life.html
March 2012
13 posts
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“[The day I felt like a New Yorker was…] probably the day I was born here 35...”
– http://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/what-makes-you-a-true-new-yorker?pageNumber=6
“People know how badly you’re struggling to get your startup off the ground and...”
– How to Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur | Vinicius Vacanti
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“I have no doubt that one day Brooklyn will rival Silicon Valley in terms of high...”
– http://dumbo.is/blog_posts/speaker-quinn-amp-dumbo-bid-plan-for-growing-tech-scene
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“These big bundles of pixels already make for mammoth file sizes for individual...”
– http://globalmoxie.com/blog/new-ipad-image-sizes.shtml
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February 2012
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Dumbo is Hiring →
The DUMBO BID is always looking out for local businesses and they’ve put together a nice little list of local businesses that are hiring. Check it out!
PS- TENDIGI is on that list too ;)
Scam apps killed the app store →
It’s stuff like this that makes part of me wish apple had an even stricter review process.
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Foxconn or Apple Retail? →
“the fast pace of work doesn’t allow for much distraction and the one interviewee who does report her mind straying from work says it only moved to the matter of how tired she was. The end result is that ‘soul-crushing boredom and deep fatigue’ have to be overcome on a daily basis”
Ask a few Apple retail employees if they can relate to this.
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Foursquare Core Data Talk
Stumbled upon some notes from Anoop Ranganath’s Foursquare Core Data talk at my Brooklyn iOS Developer Meetup earlier this year. Below are slides and info from that night:
Foursquare Core Data Talk
tumblrbot asked: ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?
January 2012
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Apple Rejecting White-Labeled Apps
I had a very interesting experience with the Apple Review team today that is worth sharing. Apparently they are rejecting apps that have branding that differs than that of the “Seller”. This is somewhat of a problem if you’re trying to white-label apps and planned to publish those apps under one single account.
“To be appropriate for the App Store, your app must be...
December 2011
5 posts
Developeronomics
http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/05/the-rise-of-developeronomics/
“At the moment, the only thing potentially more valuable than a relationship with a great developer is a relationship with a survivalist who is good with things like guns, bunkers and cabins in woods (that’s in case the apocalypse does come about in 2012, with bullets for currency). Which you think is the...
iPad Magazines
http://carpeaqua.com/2011/12/04/on-magazines-and-the-ipad/
“Reading magazines on the iPad is an exercise in frustration.”
100% agree with all the points in Justin Williams’ post. To add to the frustration- many magazines have created their own navigation schemes that make users tap and swipe like mad in order to figure out what portion of the content will offer some reward.
Planned Parenthood: Siri Sucks. Humans are Better.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cecile-richards/what-siris-blind-spot-on_b_1125377.html
“It’s fully accessible on mobile devices, and it won’t mislead you about where to find the health services you need. The humans who manage it make sure of that.”
The above quote is from Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Perhaps a little passive aggressive? Siri...
Hide your developers. Facebook is coming to NYC.
Everyone knows by now that NYC is quickly becoming a hot bed for upcoming and innovating new technology. Lots of startups have flocked to NYC in the past few years and major (west coast based) companies who have opened wings of their companies in town. If you’re involved in the NYC startup tech scene you probably already know that finding top tier engineering talent can often be very...
Skeuomorphism and Siri
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/12/01/why-siri-is-like-skeuomorphic-uis-the-magic-is-just-skin-deep/
”Skeumorphic UIs resemble physical objects, but they cannot hope to emulate the myriad ways we have to emulate physical objects — so they are always doomed to disappoint on some level if we let ourselves be fooled.”
The latest hoopla regarding Apple’s iPhone 4S Siri feature and...
November 2011
7 posts
Startups are hard so do what you love.
I recently read Michael Arrington’s post “Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining” and it struck me as extremely shortsighted and even propaganda-ish. It appears I was right. The article references Jamie Zawinski’s diary, written in 1994, in which Jamie details his experience being on the early engineering team at Netscape. The diary has...
Greg Joswiak on the Four Keys to Apple's Success
http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2011/11/18/four-keys-to-apples-success/
“Don’t hang on to ideas from the past even if they have been successful for you. You don’t build a product just because everyone else has one.”
Great insight into what makes Apple tick.
Zinio Raises $20 Million
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/23/zinio-raises-20-million-for-digital-newsstand/
Zinio provides global access to thousands of magazine titles from most major publishers in a variety of languages. The company’s website allows publications to be read online or offline on desktop computers (Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) and mobile devices such as the iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, WebOS and Android handsets...