Today at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook’s design team walked through their philosophy and approach to designing for a quarter billion users. In particular, they emphasized the importance of
Pull the iPhone out of your pocket and look at the home screen. Likely, you’re seeing some well known brands on the web: Facebook, Flickr, and Google to name just a few. You’ll also see companies like
1. Nothing wrecks your living room decor quite like a giant, rented hospital bed. The one my Dad laid in for a couple months in the fall of 1974 was an alarmingly stiff and sturdy affair, the frame of
We were promised an "ownership society."* It was President George W. Bush's campaign slogan when he ran for reelection in 2004. The comforting term invoked responsibility and stability. It connoted a
A lifetime ago – long before we launched Socialcam – my cofounder, Michael Seibel, came to me and gave me an intervention. “We have a problem,” he said. “Employees are unhappy.” Advertisement Advertis
For three decades we have conducted a massive economic experiment, testing a theory known as supply-side economics. The theory goes like this: Lower tax rates will encourage more investment, which in
Patients Are Not Consumers Earlier this week, The Times reported on Congressional backlash against the Independent Payment Advisory Board, a key part of efforts to rein in health care costs. This back
I’m going to make a bold prediction. Long after you and I are gone, HTML will still be around. Not just in billions of archived pages from our era, but as a living, breathing entity. Too much effort,
In this case, it isn't terrible politics. Really. Much has been made of President Obama's attempts to emulate Ronald Reagan. But in his flag-planting deficit-reduction speech this week, Obama sounded
Dan Benjamin is an inventor, podcaster, software developer, and writer. In early 2009, Dan became a full-time podcaster with the launch of 5by5.tv , often called "NPR for Geeks" by its listeners. 5by5
A Cursory High-Level Overview of the Current Status of Cloud-Based Syncing and iOS Devices After Apple’s iPad 2 introduction event last month, I ran into Josh Topolsky , and, of course, we talked abou
Home » Lifehack » Lessons on Email Processing from GMail’s Priority Inbox Published on September 9, 2010 Lifehack Lessons on Email Processing from GMail’s Priority Inbox Written by Francis Wade Author
RT @traceykthompson: The "FU Pay Me" talk @mike_ftw gave was so powerful my delinquent client paid before I'd even finished watching :D http://t.co/Sd84SN3
At best, public support for the law is mixed and contradictory. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey released last week was typical: A slight plurality had an unfavorable impression of it, but a slight m
This post is the third of seven posts about the future . Caveat lector. I think it was only during the second Lord of the Rings film, The Two Towers , that it hit me. Hang on: I remember this. I remem
There has been a lot of talk about Android market share versus the rest of the industry — but these ‘analysts’ are just talking about Android versus the iPhone. It is all rather pointless, as we know
Screenshot of Amazon.com browser window, showing the CloudPlayer; foreground window is the Amazon MP3 Uploader, copying iTunes playlists into Amazon CloudDrive. This is why I love my job. Today, Amazo
iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing Thursday, March 17th, 2011 In 1967, American consumers were introduced to the new, must have item for their kitchens: the microwave oven. This device, manufacture
Media Platforms Design Team The ranch house sitting 50 feet off a two-lane , pothole-riddled road southeast of Great Falls, Mont., is not much to look at. It's a simple one-story structure, surrounded
Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Closed. I’ve never liked Google’s use of the word “open” to describe the Android operating system. On one hand, the “openness” has led to situations where car
Too many of the biggest sites on the internet today provide “free services”: they choose not to charge their users. This is a costly mistake that we’ll see play out again and again over the next few y
For the past few days I’ve been using and enjoying TweetMag on my iPad, a new app from the smart folks at Toronto design studio Teehan + Lax . It’s a beautifully designed reader-style application that
UPDATE: More recent stats are available here. To date, I’ve relied only on my own speculation to estimate how many people used Instapaper on each iOS device, or with each iOS version. I didn’t think t
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