July 2007
“Just got busted for taking a camera phone picture! Ironic considering that venue...”
– Prashant Agarwal, Twitter
SMS: Return of the command line →
CSS Specificity: Things You Should Know →
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It...”
– Albert Einstein
ZTE BAVO →
Print server, wifi access points, mobile router, vpn, home PBX and more in one box
Urban Fonts →
Free font downloads
Free Vector Images →
Top 50 Inspirational Websites for Designers →
3 Rounds Up the Best of the Mobile Web →
Services and applications featured on neXt represent some of the most exciting new tools developed for the mobile Internet
Twitter - Become the (Facebook) Platform, For... →
Django Master Class →
learn 9 things from 3 of the best
Instant Django →
“Get a big wall calendar that has a whole year. Next get a big red magic marker....”
– Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret
“Whoever it is, while we like how you roll in theory, in practice, we’d...”
– A drunk employee kills all of the websites you care about
“Identify a group of people who form a potentially large market, yet are...”
– Nostrademons, on news.YC, in response to “It’s Time to Replace eBay”
“Is your system useful to someone even if nobody else uses it?”
– The Del.icio.us Lesson
“While young people embrace the Web and their cell phone is never far away,...”
– Young keep it simple in high-tech world
“Large projects tend to fail”
– Will My Software Project Fail? - Another reason to build small, then grow
“Perhaps it’s time to start treating mobile phones like the fashion accessories...”
– Is LG making the RAZR mistake?
“Which is preferable - the whole universe using a crippled version of a...”
– Aswath
SMS should grow up →
SMS needs to be fixed or replaced before it becomes irrelevant, just like email has
“There is still a great opportunity to disrupt the communications industry”
– A Call for More Innovation in Voice Services
Top Job Interview Questions →
“The butler industry is now facing a shortage of trained staff. So keen is the...”
– Welcome to Richistan, USA
“You will always have excuses, always have reasons to say you can’t do it, but to...”
– Jamie Quint, No Excuses, Just Do It
If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two paths:
Become the best at one specific thing. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things.
The first strategy is difficult to the point of near impossibility. The second strategy is fairly...
“Don’t follow your mentors, follow your mentors’ mentors”
– C.E.O. Libraries Reveal Keys to Success
“Build too much and you run out of cash, build too little and you’ll have...”
– Approaching YC demo day
Inline Messaging →
Broken Interaction Means More Money?
“They don’t want to generate content, they want better life”
– 50 Reasons Why People Aren’t Using Your Website
Ruby One-Click Installer for OSX Tiger →
comes with ruby, sqlite, gems, etc
The next big thing is Touch →
The next big thing is Touch
“Facebook helps people be lazy. Don’t have time to update your profile? No...”
– Facebook’s Secret Plan
10 Questions Venture Capitalists and Angel... →
“$2,206.92”
– The True Cost of an iPhone - Thats enough for a student to live on for 3 months
Designing a new ecology of mixed digital and... →
(pdf slides)
“I think it’s highly unlikely there will be a mobile-only social network. It’s...”
– In Search of the [mobile] Silver Bullet
“You want to know how do big companies make money out of all those eyeballs. The...”
– In Search of the Silver Bullet
The Bloomberg Makeover →
What if Facebook loses my data? →