Work
When you need to have a meeting, have a meeting
When you need to have a meeting, have a meeting. When you need to collaborate, collaborate. The rest of the time, do the work, wherever you like. Seth Godin, waving Goodbye to the office
Professional
Trying to get everyone to like you
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity Colin Powell, from the Quotation Collection, via Tim Ferriss.
Apple
How fortunate we are
don’t forget how fortunate we are to have such a ruthlessly innovative company at the helm of the ship at this point in time. Either get on it or just pick another boat and draft in its wake. Mike Industries, A good problem to have
Web
Everything about web architecture
Everything about web architecture; HTTP, HTML, CSS, is designed to serve and render content, but most importantly the web is formed where all of that content is linked together. Ben Ward, Understand The Web
It's why everyone is terrified of Google
it’s why everyone is terrified of Google: The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone’s trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath. Charlie’s Diary, The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
Open
Like '2.0', companies are coming to see
Like “2.0”, companies are coming to see “open” as just the next checkbox-marketing-trend to hitch their fading brands to. Chris Messina, on “open” and the cigarette industry, in Open-washing and the CamelOpenCircle …Jerk
Apple
The rest of the market
The rest of the market, […] insists on peddling either outright crap or cheap imitations of Apple’s aesthetic Loper OS, Non-Apple’s Mistake
Innovation
Work simply in the present
it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future. Clay Shirky, The Collapse of Complex Business Models (Wayback Machine)
Apps
The 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps
Speed, Instant Utility, Voice, Less Is More, Programmable, Personal, RESTful, Discoverable, Clean, Playful Fred Wilson, The 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps (slides)
Blogging
Living on someone else’s platform requires that you understand this
Living on someone else’s platform requires that you understand this stuff really well. Charles Hudson, Three Reminders about Platform Businesses (Apple, Twitter, and Facebook)
It made technology go away
With the iPad, Apple has done the same for personal computing as it has done before with the iPod: it made technology go away. Jürgen from Cultured Code, An Empty Canvas
Sometimes they actually enhance the device
Sometimes they actually enhance the device. Mostly, though, they’re like a third nipple. Good for conversation, but functionally useless. Andy Ihnatko’s on hardware features, iPad and Multitasking (Wayback Machine)