Boris Mann's Link Blog
The majority of my Facebook friends don’t use Instagram, and I’m not Facebook friends with the majority of the people I follow on Instagram. Heck, I don’t know many of the people I follow on Instagram. And like most normal people, I don’t accept Facebook friend requests from people I’m not actually friends with.
I still see a lot of kid / cat pictures on Instagram, but it has a wider, more public-by-default use case than Facebook. This article is a really nice exploration of the differences between the two mediums.
I want to reply! | Fruit Business
I agree! We can do more with email from our apps.
What, no comments on this sponsored-by-Go-Daddy post on GigaOm? Please, GigaOm, don’t accept this kind of money. Go Daddy should be ignored just for the awful UI.
Just use NameCheap.
Crash Dev: Money, Power the Culture of Innovation
Just keep making, and the money will catch up. Don’t reverse this process.
9 Deadliest Start-up Sins « Steve Blank
I think all too often many things are borrowed from established companies or ways of doing things. If you are a startup disrupting a market, why do you think you should be structured the same way as those you are disrupting?
Portable Ideas - raganwald’s posterous
In short: keep posting, and hopefully a turn of phrase or combination of ideas will resonate and carry out of your bubble.
I think the reverse is also true: I try and read outside my bubble and am always looking for the edges so that my thinking can expand.
Gorgeous UX concepts for Boot2Gecko, Mozilla’s open web platform for mobile.
This is interesting, especially payment support. But I bet payment support can’t be used on iOS?
Looks like more activities starting June 1st - Montreal, Toronto, Saskatoon, and Vancouver.
What a developer thinks is code-complete, what the user experiences, and what the stakeholders expect are almost always three different views on reality. As a developer preparing to demonstrate some features, your perspective is different than when you’re just trying to close a ticket.
Regular demos also mean you need to ship something regularly – specifically, something that is demo-able, rather than just a backend tweak.
An interesting overview + stats of some of the realities of Android devices. Numbers were based on 681,900 devices, out of which there were 3997 unique devices.
