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Steve Jobs: Designer First, CEO Second
I recently read a great interview by John Scully where he talks about Steve Jobs. Scully was CEO of Apple for almost a decade. It’s just a great read. For anyone in the tech business, this is a...
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A Genius Ad
When you click on the Movies app on your iPhone, you get this popup advertisement: The only way to get past it without being taken to the Living Social site is to click “I Hate Cupcakes” Sure, it’s...
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Apple is Crushing It
Say what you will about Apple’s product and their company culture. They can be closed (vs. Google’s “open”) and the company can be arrogant, but you have to admire how successful they are right now....
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How i get stuff done
A few people asked me this week how keep track of things i need to get things done. So, let me tell you. First, I keep an ongoing Task list. I have a big list and then i have a line in that list that...
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Steve Jobs Biography was Great
I just finished the Steve Jobs book and it was probably one of the most enjoyable books i’ve read in a long long time. I might say the past 10 years. Here’s why: Steve Jobs really cared about his...
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Steve Jobs on the Post-PC World.
I listened this morning to a podcast where Steve Jobs was interviewed at the All Things D conference. He talked (around 45 min mark) about the post-PC world. I thought it was a pretty interesting...
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Thoughts on the iPhone 5
At the Kapost office yesterday, about half the company was glued to live-blogging of the iPhone 5 announcement. What we saw was only a blog but watching it was quite a show. A few things stood out...
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Tap-Essays & Getting from Likes to Love
Read a great essay today. It wasn’t a typical essay but it was a “tap essay.” What is that? Well it’s an article optimized for a device and makes it easy to give it your full attention. Not only was...
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iPhone5: 3 months in
I wrote a post about 4 months ago about the iPhone5 and what I thought about it. This was before i had purchased it or even used it. I have now been using my iPhone 5 for over 3 months and really...
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My Pebble Watch
About 10 months ago, I watched this video on Kickstarter and was really intrigued about the thought of having a watch send me updates from my iPhone. I put some money down in May 2012 and waited. And...
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Apple Maps vs. Google Maps: A Rant
I recently heard someone talk about what a bad move it was for Apple to release their own Maps app on the iPhone. I’ve heard this maybe half a dozen times lately and I couldn’t disagree more. We...
View ArticleSiri and the Digital Natives
I wrote a post a few years ago about cognitive surplus and how we’re all doing more and more stuff on the web. One of the stories in that post was: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a...
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Yahoo! is on it’s way back
I had pretty much written Yahoo off. I thought they were dead. They hadn’t done anything new and interesting for over 5 years. Their webpages looked like crap. They were just treading water. That...
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Earn Points with Grandma: The Postgram App
I was visiting my grandmother last weekend. This is the same grandmother that was spotted on the streets of Manhattan at age 90 and asked to be a model for GNC (blog post: My Grandmother is Amazing)....
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My New Favorite App: PaperKarma
My brother-in-law (aka TheBoss) tipped me off to this wonderful app the other day. It’s called PaperKarma and here’s how it works: Get your mail from the mailbox Get a bunch of crappy catalogs in...
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Foursquare Swarming and the death of the Mayorship
I’m a big FourSquare user and i have been since they launched. I think I was one of the original 10k users to sign up for the service. Looking at my profile, i can see that i’ve done over 5700 checkin...
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Thoughts on Apple’s iPhone 6 & ApplePay
I listened to the announcement last week and have a lot of thoughts on the upcoming iPhone. Apple’s launch event came, and delivered (mostly) what had been leaked and/or expected: a larger iPhone...
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Bezos Interview: Publishing and Fire Phone
I recently read this interview of Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. It’s pretty interesting. Some thoughts: eBooks / Publishing I had always assumed that the print/book industry was really struggling – similar...
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Apple’s No Jack City
Apple announced the new iPhone 7 yesterday and announced that they are removing the headphone jack. Some quick thoughts on that… Short Term Pain It’s annoying to have to live in a world where my...
View ArticleEpic Tweet Storm about Apple’s Development Process
This is an epic tweet storm about Apple’s development process by Steven Sinofsky. If you don’t know him, he ran the Microsoft Office business unit for over a decade. This rant touches on how to balance...
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