October 2005 Archives

• 25 Oct 2005

  The Cult of Apple: Preaching to the Converted

  For the truly devout iPodders, you can show your fanaticism through this lanyard replacement. From Cult of Mac: Apple rolled out a clever, viral campaign for the iPod at a Shibuya train station. The campaign features a wall covered with...

• 24 Oct 2005

  Another Reason I Love Apple

  The soundtrack of my adolescent years consisting of weekend matinees and a now unplayable collection of highly-coveted vinyl is now available in iTunes. While I wasn't a big fan of West Coast hardcore, (I'm sure whoever compiled this at Apple...

• 12 Oct 2005

  Keep ... your enemies closer

  The art of the portal war has definitely created some rather eyebrow-raising alliances — surely as an attempt to keep Google in check. Yahoo! and MSN today announced that they will link their IM networks. Earlier, Microsoft reportedly approached AOL...

• 9 Oct 2005

  Google, please take some design lessons!

  Google Reader made its public debut this week and I was unimpressed. They seemed to have focused on AJAXing everything in their dev queue without much regard for UI. Not that there's anything wrong with AJAX but, it does seem...

• 9 Oct 2005

  Less is More. Indeed.

  Grammar issues aside, Jason Fried's notes on Less as a Competitve Advantage offers a good primer on the advantages of *one-downing* and *under-doing* in business and development. For a really good read on the subject of business parsimony, download Seth...