The Beatles: The Original Lean Startup
I admit, I'm disappointed that the Apple announcement was only about The Beatles catalogue on iTunes. But whenever The Beatles invade the news I'm always re-inspired by how transformative their work...
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The Coveted iPhone Home Screen
I have upwards of 150 apps on my iPhone. Only 20 can fit on my home screen. I populate it with the apps I use the most. Today I realized that this prime real estate illustrates (and also influences)...
View ArticleColor is Surprisingly Innovative But Will Still Fail
Let's put aside their astounding $41 million round. I know it's crazy, but if they become the next Facebook or Twitter it will have been a great investment. The thing is, though, they won't. Color is...
View ArticleExtending Your Models in Rails 3 with App Concerns
App Concerns are awesome. They've been used for years by 37signals, but there's built-in support for them in Rails 3. They're basically a really easy way to DRY up your code, by letting you easily...
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A Filter for Weeding Out Non-Technical Co-Founders
The Filter: "Have you seen the movie, The Social Network?" [They likely say yes] "Do you think the Winklevoss brothers were right or wrong?" If they sympathize with the Winklevii it's a dealbreaker....
View ArticleHow to Build a Fast News Feed in Redis
News Feeds are a challenging but solved problem. Facebook, Twitter, and others have built massively scalable news feed architectures, but there are still lots of implementation questions for smaller...
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Competition Doesn't Matter. Look at Dropbox.
When Receivd, a new file-sharing service, launched a few days ago it was heralded as a "Dropbox killer." It reminded me of when, in 2007, Drew Houston stormed onto the scene with his "GDrive killer,"...
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A Review of News.me
This past week Betaworks and Bit.ly unveiled their new iPad news reader, News.me. I've been working on a news reader of my own for the past few months (Paper Buff), so I was anxiously awaiting their...
View ArticleWant to learn to code in 2012? Here's how to get started.
[I decided to put this together after several friends told me they wanted to learn programming this year and asked me how to get started. This is what I told them]: If you want to learn how to code...
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