I made the prediction this year that iPads would dominate over all Android tablets, mainly because of the poor showing early on in the year and the over-hyped releases to come. Most of that came to pass. Some things I left out were bigger than I thought (hello Samsung Galaxy and Motorola Xoom), and others everyone missed completely (Kindle Fire).
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Words can’t express the collective loss of this man’s contributions to the world, but here’s my feeble attempt at a tribute to his legacy.
Steve Jobs, from A to Z:
- Apple Computer
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Dear Microsoft,
I can’t tell you how much it pains me to write this letter. I thought we had a great relationship as developer/software provider. I left my Apple roots in the mid-90s for your brazen swagger and staggering command of the market. Lately it seems like you just don’t care. And by lately, I mean the last 10 years.
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Product Development Lessons from the Launch of Disneyland
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Ever have a launch that went, well, something other than what you planned?
You’re in good company. Consider the story of the Disneyland launch in 1955, and you might feel better about your own personal project issues.
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How many articles have you read lately about the upcoming tech bubble? Three? Ten? Fifty?
Depending on who you talk to, the bubble is either already here, or it’s not coming at all.
I’ve been doing a considerable amount of candidate interviewing lately and after some serious impedance mismatch on what we got over what was advertised, I decided to browse the general software developer job listings to see if there was a better way to ask for resumes.
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Two Major Privacy Violations You Probably Didn’t Notice
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Somehow, I managed to channel my security hero Bruce Schneier, who manages to find all that is amazingly stupid and insane about security, from the TSA to RSA. And I accidentally stumbled across some major privacy violations that didn’t appear to be privacy violations on the surface.
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Happy New Year to everyone, first of all. And second, I hope you managed to get your hands on an iPad in the past 6 months because if you haven’t, you’re going to want one.
Have you ever tried going through a recruiter to get hired? Or even worse, have you had to use one to hire other people? If you did, you’ve been subject to what I call the Lack-Of-Value Middleman*.
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Guest Post on SoftwareByRob: How Love Can Kill Your Product
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I have a guest post on Software By Rob (Rob Walling’s blog) today about my former photography business and how my blind love for the product ended up being the reason it tanked.
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