Posts from 2006 (Page 5)

Nov 02, 2006

Customers And Community

More fun

The people on Zune get it, too. It’s about the fun, stupid. Check out this Zune ad up on YouTube, entitled The Ballad of Lion and Gazelle.

Nov 01, 2006

Innovation

David Pogue Looks Back at 2006

David Pogue has an article in the NY Times today about some of the technological highlights of the year. I find it interesting how much he hates Windows and Windows Mobile, as shown here: The turkeys of the year: Microsoft’s Ultra Mobile PC comput...

Oct 31, 2006

Innovation

Motorola Unveils a ‘Dumb’ Phone

It seems almost painfully obvious, in a way, but some people don’t actually want more features, doodads, gizmos, or gewgaws sticking out of their phone (admittedly, I’m not one of them: I still want GPS, 3G data, Wi-Fi, and a qwerty keyboard on my...

Oct 30, 2006

Apple

Emerging Fully Formed from Steve Jobs’ Forehead

Steven Levy has one of the most sycophantic and interesting articles about the iPod I’ve ever read up on Wired this month. The article sheds light on a number of interesting and new-to-me aspects of the iPod’s creation, like this anecdote about po...

Oct 29, 2006

Windows Mobile

Flash Lite 2.1 Preview for Windows Mobile 5

Apparently, I’m late to get on the bandwagon, but I just found out that Adobe released a preview of Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 last month. I think this is a pretty big deal. With this, you’re now able able to deploy Flash content on Symbi...

Oct 29, 2006

Web Design

HTML to be incrementally improved

Apparently, the W3C just isn’t getting enough uptake on XHTML, because it’s simply too hard to shove people in the right direction: The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags a...

Oct 29, 2006

Letterman rocks

You're trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head. Crooks and Liars has the Letterman interview of Bill O’Reilly up. Good stuff.

Oct 28, 2006

Cheer up, emo kid!

I dyed my hair black for halloween earlier today. I also bought black eyeliner and the world’s ugliest button up sweater. I am, god’s word, being an emo kid for halloween. In a few minutes, I am going to wander over to QFC and buy a six pack of PB...

Oct 28, 2006

Ui Design

Unexpected value in paper prototyping

Jan Miksovsky talks about unexpected value found in ‘crude’ prototyping: A counter-intuitive principle of soliciting early design feedback is that people reviewing a highly polished design may concentrate on superficial details and overlook fundam...

Oct 27, 2006

Windows

The other 90%

One of my favorite adages in software development is that the first 90% of your project takes 90% of the time; The last 10% takes the other 90% of the time (my other favorite is “time, quality, features: pick two”). I discovered this firsthand a l...