"At first it was definitely really weird, just because my motivation as an entrepreneur, internet person, is so different from the type of person that would go and copy something exactly… The first couple of times we saw these sites it would be just people copying our exact design…to a tee everything that we were doing. When we made changes, a couple of days later they would make those changes. Like even stupid things we were doing, like we could have run a deal on porn and there probably would have been 80 other sites that would have run a deal on porn the next day. It was strange. After awhile you just shut it out and go on doing what you do."
Groupon’s Andrew Mason is well aware of all the Groupon-esque sites via TechCrunch
The Real Cost of New Apple Products

The Real Cost of New Apple Products

Apple vs. Android - Distributing your App

Apple vs. Android - Distributing your App

DEADLINE post-it stop motion

"I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it’s a life!"
Social Media Landscape via fredcavazza on Flickr

Social Media Landscape via fredcavazza on Flickr

"It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. Rather, it’s the species that’s the most adaptable to change that survives."
Charles Darwin

From start-up to global player: In 2000, the zanox success story kicked-off in Berlin and soon spread all over the globe.

How to Run a Meeting Like Google

  1. Set a firm agenda.
  2. Assign a note-taker.

  3. Carve out micro-meetings.

  4. Hold office hours.

  5. Discourage politics, use data.

  6. Stick to the clock.

Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular “Facebook Games” era.

Why do I blog this? The numbers behind Facebook Games are highly impressive, a huge platform and game ecosystem which evolved in a couple of years. The conclusion, game mechanics will play a more and more important role in everyday products. Excited to dive deeper into the basics of gaming.

"The test, Williams said, is that your product or service should be the end of a sentence that begins, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if …?” And that sentence shouldn’t be, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if I had a million dollars?"
Evan Williams, CEO Twitter
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9. You can be serious without a suit.

Google’s founders have often stated that the company is not serious about anything but search. They built a company around the idea that work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun. To that end, Google’s culture is unlike any in corporate America, and it’s not because of the ubiquitous lava lamps and large rubber balls, or the fact that the company’s chef used to cook for the Grateful Dead. In the same way Google puts users first when it comes to our online service, Google Inc. puts employees first when it comes to daily life in our Googleplex headquarters. There is an emphasis on team achievements and pride in individual accomplishments that contribute to the company’s overall success. Ideas are traded, tested and put into practice with an alacrity that can be dizzying. Meetings that would take hours elsewhere are frequently little more than a conversation in line for lunch and few walls separate those who write the code from those who write the checks. This highly communicative environment fosters a productivity and camaraderie fueled by the realization that millions of people rely on Google results. Give the proper tools to a group of people who like to make a difference, and they will.

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The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger.

I hate it.

I hate it even though the iPhone hardware and software are great, because freedom’s not just another word for anything, nor is it an optional ingredient.

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Now A No-Evil Zone” - Tim Bray, now Developer Advocate at Google