April 2009
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“…our goal is to see Virb be to the internet what HBO is to cable.”
– Brad Smith — Virb
Flight Control Sales Numbers →
Sales during the report period: 587,485
Sales to date (6 March to 27 April): over 700,000
These guys are making bank.
An apology for Air Force One photo op →
Seriously? That was ill conceived.
Go to ESPN.com and type in the infamous Konami code (up up down down left right left right B A). It will change your life.
via @cabel
Tapbots Developers Going Full Time →
I think it’s nothing short of amazing that we are able to support ourselves with $0 investment (other than time) and all of it $1-$3 at a time. Weightbot sold 100k copies in its first 100 days, Convertbot is selling at about twice that rate. To say we’re excited about the future is an understatement.
IE6 Update →
IE6 Update looks like IE’s Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser update.
This is mind blowingly genius. What many developers forget is that people who use IE6 don’t know any better. Treating them like lepers and outcasting their browser from the internet is exactly how not to approach this problem. Let’s continue feeding...
The dark side of Dubai →
“The thing you have to understand about Dubai is – nothing is what it seems,” Karen says at last. “Nothing. This isn’t a city, it’s a con-job. They lure you in telling you it’s one thing – a modern kind of place – but beneath the surface it’s a medieval dictatorship.”
I always knew Dubai was too good to be true.
WatchOH KANYE. WHY ARE YOU SO AWESOME ALL TIME TIME???? I MEAN LIKE, EVEN WHEN I TRY TO DO THIS ALL CAPS POSTING IT’S NOT AS COOL AS YOU…
Kim Jong II appears in parliament after... →
I love the creepy music they play in the end. It’s something Michael Bay would use for a dictator scene.
Tim Ferriss & Ramit Sethi Live Talk
For those of you who missed it, Tim Ferriss and Ramit Sethi did a live Ustream chat last night. Their conversation covers all sorts of topics from blog readership to sharpening your entrepreneurial skills. Videos below:
“Remember microformats? Oh, you silly Internet. What useless thing will you think...”
– Dave Snider
“They should never have built the New York Stock Exchange over an Indian...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman (via yourmonkeycalled)
Mark Zuckerberg is a Paranoid Genius! →
Why bother sending employees individual copies of a mass email with subtle changes throughout? There’s only one reason to bother: Using the changes as tell-tale clues to identify whose copy got forwarded. That’s what Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk did recently in an attempt to find leakers. Each of those changes can, in theory, serve as an identifier; assemble a series of unique...
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Gary Vaynerchuk to Drop Business Book in September →
HarperStudio has signed a seven-figure, 10-book deal with Gary Vaynerchuk, a 33-year-old Belarusian-born wine retailer from New Jersey, who, except for a talk show appearance here and there, is basically unknown in mainstream media circles.
Crap. That is mind blowing. And who said doing what you love doesn’t pay?
“You can no longer market to the anonymous masses. They’re not anonymous and...”
– Seth Godin (via soxiam)
Complex →
If there’s a formula to Apple’s success over the past 10 years, that’s it. Start with something simple and build it, grow it, improve it, steadily over time. Evolve it.
The problem with Apple in the 90s was that they stopped doing this. The Mac had a great run from its debut in 1984 through the end of the ’80s, where both the hardware and software improved every year. Then that stopped....
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Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace →
A funny tutorial on how to go from idea to fluent flamboyancy in your writing. This stuff cracks me up.
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WatchGary Vaynerchuk doing an episode of Wine Library on a plane? This stuff just got real. Beyond blowing my mind in how genuine and personal this episode feels, I can’t help but think an up close, unadulterated version of Gary looks a lot like Rowan Atkinson.
Poems Out Loud →
Killer new design from Mandy Brown of A Working Library fame.
Designing to Sell →
Yong Fook is thinking well as he is developing his new mystery product, Rippl3. In this article he breaks down how services use a selling page to sell their product, and how designing a front end to sell will define the underlying success of everything you do.