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22 April 2010 ~ 2 Comments

Lunch with Ramit

Wednesday I see this tweet from Ramit Sethi, who runs one of my favorite blogs http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ and I absolutely had to see if I could meet up with him. Know Ramit from his blog I sent him the following email-
Subject line: Like free food? Let me take you out to lunch!

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20 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

So you want to make an iPhone app

So you want to make an iPhone app

OK, the app store has over 130,000 apps and the retention rate of users is pretty bad. So what kind of app should go on the iPhone? I am going to separate apps into three categories – games, useful apps, and novelty.  There was a time when you could make a novelty app like iFart […]

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28 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Specs don’t show quality.

Specs don’t show quality.

That’s a comparison of touchscreens of various smart phones. It’s pretty obvious that the iPhone has the best touchscreen. The full results are at http://labs.moto.com/ and they say that to get it right, gadget-makers have to assemble a variety of critical elements — screen hardware, software algorithms, sensor tuning, and user-interface design, to name but […]

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14 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

NOT Common Sense

This quote is absolutely fantastic – “Common Sense is the enemy of Sticky messages. When messages sound like common sense, they float gently in one ear and out the other. And why shouldn’t they? If I already intuitively “get” what you’re trying to tell me, why should I obsess about remembering it? The danger, of […]

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28 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Yahoo!, um AP! News

One of the websites I frequent is Yahoo! Finance. You can use Bloomberg or Reuters or a handful of other ones, but I find Yahoo! to be the most convenient. One of the things I like about it is the news feed right in the middle. I was wondering the other day what I would […]

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