January 2012
The separation of structure, presentation and... →
I remember the weight of separation vividly. I remember writing custom JavaScript to replace the <a> tag’s target attribute because it added behavior to HTML. I remember dropping the <font> tag from my arsenal of tools, something I don’t regret.
In principle, the rule of separation was good. It helped us explain the best practice and implementation of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It...
Open webOS 1.0 announced: HP to complete webOS... →
Following up on its December announcement that it would open source the platform — a last-ditch effort to make it viable — HP has gone into detail today on exactly when and how developers will be getting access to webOS code. The company expects the entire open sourcing process to be complete by September, while Enyo, the application framework that debuted on the TouchPad and underpins webOS 3.0,...
“The new data shows that the iPad alone would be the largest PC vendor and Apple...”
– The year of the iPad for the second year in a row | asymco
“Important as the technology and expertise may be, we find that most companies...”
– Make Data Work Throughout Your Organization - Thomas C. Redman and David Walker - Harvard Business Review
Sciences, Humanities, and ... Design? The Case for... →
At frog, we often engage our clients in visually creative exercises to tap their knowledge about a domain and strengthen our partnership in the design process. But, in three different collaborative work sessions that I’ve facilitated with clients in the past year, I’ve been told outright at the beginning: “I’m not good at this, so don’t expect much.”
“Random House Children’s Books and Sesame Workshop are partnering on a new...”
– Current.org: Random House and Sesame launch ebook initiative
“I mean, it’s 20 degrees, it’s snowing, the building is absolutely...”
– Peyton Manning - faces more uncertainty than ever this Colts offseason | The Indianapolis Star
Future’s Newsstand Tranformation: 75,000 New... →
UK magazine publisher Future made $1 million in new tablet magazine revenue within a month of debuting 65 of its titles on iTunes’ Newsstand.
104 days after Future debuted the title’s with Newsstand’s September 12 launch, tablet editor-in-chief Mike Goldsmith revealed stats at the UK Association of Online Publishers’ tablet publishing forum in London on Wednesday…
75,000 subscriptions...
Wowed Wall Street watchers raise forecasts after... →
“The perfect quarter,” in Marshall’s eyes, was due to the fact that the iPhone and iPad generated about 85 percent of Apple’s total gross profits. This helped the company beat its revenue guidance by about $9.3 billion and earnings per share guidance by $4.60. “With minimal ‘real’ competitive threats to AAPL’s major product families in (calendar year...
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Current.org | Stations' blog experiment: Project... →
Argo is going to be an important part of NPR’s Digital Services offerings, he said. The experience will also be part of the curriculum in the digital-news training that NPR will roll out with support from a $1.5 million Knight Foundation grant announced last month.
“We’re in the planning phase for the coming year, and the Knight training grant is going to allow us to work with many more...
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class -... →
In 2007, a little over a month before the iPhone was scheduled to appear in stores, Mr. Jobs beckoned a handful of lieutenants into an office. For weeks, he had been carrying a prototype of the device in his pocket.
Mr. Jobs angrily held up his iPhone, angling it so everyone could see the dozens of tiny scratches marring its plastic screen, according to someone who attended the meeting. He then...
“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly...”
– Edwin H. Land (via thephadedlife)
Pew: 19 percent of American adults now own a... →
Pew also reports an identical trend for ebook readers. Those were at 10 percent before all the presents were unpacked and have similarly leapt up to 19 percent in January. Owners of either a tablet or an ebook have gone from 18 percent of US adults to 29 percent in the same period. The latter number would suggest that most people are choosing either a tablet or an e-reader — a trend that may...
Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in Q1 2012: $13.06... →
Apple shipped 5.2 million Macintosh computers during the quarter, a unit increase of 26 percent over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone unit sales reached 37.04 million, up 128 percent from the year-ago quarter, and the company sold 15.4 million iPods during the quarter, representing 21 percent unit decline over the year-ago quarter. Apple also sold 15.43 million iPads during the quarter, up...
A "Holy Fucking Shit" Quarter →
parislemon:
Remember back in October when after a rare “miss” by Apple (which was only a miss because analysts are stupid and lazy), the early signs pointed to the potential of a $40 billion quarter? Some thought that was insane given that Apple had never even had a $30 billion quarter before. Well, turns out that projection was a little insane — insanely low.
Try a $46.33 billion quarter.
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“In the best-case scenario, RIM could stumble onto a smaller but sustainable...”
– RIM can’t save itself - SplatF
Tumblr Reaches 120 Million People, 15 Billion Page... →
At the Digitial Life Design (DLD)conference in Munich, Germany, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp announced that the blogging site now reaches 120 million people and 15 billion pageviews every month.
According to The Next Web, Karp credited the site’s sociability for its growth. The average Tumblr blog is re-blogged nine times, said the founder, and the content is distributed through RSS,...
“The process of defining a product and executing a product” is the thing...”
– RIM names new CEO: announcement live blog | The Verge
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If I Were CEO — The Brooks Review →
If I were CEO of RIM, here’s what I would do:
Call a meeting of all top executives.
Pull my iPhone 4S out and rest it gently on the table in front of me.
Wait for dramatic effect.
Fire anyone not patient enough to wait for me to speak first.
Tell everyone left in the room that they have 3 months to bring me a working prototype that makes me want to use it over my iPhone. (While gesturing...
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
– Chinese Proverb (via smallbee8)
7 Ways to Make Money from Your Content Online →
Do you remember ‘Charlie bit my finger’? Charlie’s family certainly does: they made £120,000 in YouTube earnings. Yet, this remains an exception; unless they go incredibly viral, YouTube videos aren’t a reliable source of income.
However, it doesn’t mean you can’t monetize your digital content online. Yet you may want to look elsewhere than Google and turn to smaller companies. Several of them...
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sultans of swing | dire straights
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On Criticism, Cynicism & Sharpening Your Gut... →
Knowing which feedback to embrace and which to discard is perhaps the most important instinct for a creative leader to possess. Nearly every legendary innovation was initially mocked or misunderstood by the so-called “experts.” In truth, scrutiny and doubt are just part of the toll we pay to take the path less traveled. But knowing this doesn’t make it any easier. The question...
RIM's Balsillie, Lazaridis resign - Business - CBC... →
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the co-chief executives of Research In Motion Ltd., have stepped down as heads of the Waterloo, Ont.-based technology company.
According to a news release issued Sunday, RIM’s board of directors unanimously named former chief operating officer Thorsten Heins as president and CEO on the advice of Balsillie and Lazaridis.
“There comes a time in the...