iOS 7 - Macintosh or iPod?

I was pretty young when the Mac died. Growing up in a PC household, all I knew was that there was a hard core of people who were obsessed with these single-buttoned machines. And I couldn’t play any decent games on them. A lot of people have classed me

http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-practice-actually-makes-perfect-how-to-rewire-your-brain-for-better-performance

http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-practice-actually-makes-perfect-how-to-rewire-your-brain-for-better-performance : “myelin turns the electrical signal into the brain version of Nightcrawler, the teleporting X-Man. Instead of traveling in a straight line down the axon, the charge is BAMF-ing down at much faster speeds.” I love this stuff.

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/from-here-you-can-see-everything

http://www.themorningnews.org/article/from-here-you-can-see-everything: “In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or

Technology

Who will build Android for Dummies?

From my post on Medium: [https://medium.com/product-design/b73da88af6a6] > I like my new Android phone. It has power, it lets me have more control over the experience than my iPhone ever did and for a lot of people, it delivers in exactly the areas that iOS is increasingly

Who will build Android for Dummies?

I like my new Android phone. It has power, it lets me have more control over the experience than my iPhone ever did and for a lot of people, it delivers in exactly the areas that iOS is increasingly frustrating and/or boring them. But this is not a phone

Google Glass at the Indy 500

Google Glass at the Indy 500 [http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/28/4372928/using-google-glass-at-the-indy-500-and-coca-cola-600] : From The Verge: > By the end of the day, I had become more interested in asking people what they thought Glass was doing instead of delivering my little speech about what it actually did.

Businessweek Profiles Google X

Businessweek Profiles Google X [http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-22/inside-googles-secret-lab]: > “We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.” Google X is the best thing about Google. Forget next gen iPads in Ive’

After Woolwich: how the media got it wrong

After Woolwich: how the media got it wrong [http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/05/after-woolwich-how-media-got-it-wrong-and-how-public-can-get-it-right] : > Perhaps it is a shame that no newspaper inverted the lens. As one of the killers told her “we want to start a war in London tonight”, the astonishingly brave scout leader Ingrid

Evernote's "China Strategy" & Execution

Evernote’s “China Strategy” & Execution [http://startupbug.tumblr.com/post/50287504154/evernote]: Really interesting analysis of doing business in China as a foreign brand. In summary: Go native. Must be easier said than done but case studies like this help.

Technology

Holiday Homescreen

From my post on Medium: [https://medium.com/mobile-culture/9d242155ad60] > Even with a good regime of folders, the front page of my iPhone homescreen is almost like a rundown of responsibilities and considerations. Mailbox, Fantastical and Reminders. Feedly, Instapaper and Reddit. Vine, Instagram and Facebook. Tweetbot. There’s something

Glass

Glass Half Empty

From my latest on Medium: [https://medium.com/the-world-according-to-glass/a848536efc15] > Smartphones rose to power because they took a device you always had with you and crammed it full of extra value. These portable computers used the ‘phone’ concept as a trojan horse at just the right time of mobile

homescreen

Holiday homescreen

I’m having a week off. The girlfriend and I will shortly be departing for warmer climes but as a techy couple who both work in marketing, it’s not just a matter of turning off work email and calling it a day. There are notifications and social networks and

Media

Narrating the startup journey

I didn’t invent Tradeshift. At best, I’ve just been involved in deciding some of the ways we talk about it. But I think it’s a good idea: 1. Connect every company in the world on an open platform for business interactions (5m soon.) 2. Let anyone build

Google

Glass Half Empty

Smartphones rose to power because they took a device you always had with you and crammed it full of extra value. These portable computers used the ‘phone’ concept as a trojan horse at just the right time of mobile data, miniaturisation and social networks. Before long, most people will have

Hawking's Israel boycott, Tweet by Tweet

Hawking’s Israel boycott, Tweet by Tweet [http://matthewkalman.blogspot.co.il/2013/05/this-otherwise-utterly-failed-and.html] : Articles like this show the labour of good journalism.

Quadropus Rampage - From the creators of Towelfight 2 - Upcoming Android Games - DroidGamers Forums

Quadropus Rampage – From the creators of Towelfight 2 – Upcoming Android Games – DroidGamers Forums [http://www.droidgamers.com/forums/topic/838-quadropus-rampage-from-the-creators-of-towelfight-2/?p=4428] : > As it turned out, lots of people wanted to play it, but very few people wanted to pay for it. We made a free game — we just

The Gruber Conundrum

The Gruber Conundrum [http://daringfireball.net/2013/05/google_versus]: > Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook I don’t think anyone understands Apple and has finger on

Google Glass: the world’s worst surveillance device.

Google Glass: the world’s worst surveillance device. [http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/05/google_glass_privacy_it_s_actually_the_world_s_worst_surveillance_device.html] : > Starner has worked with Google on the Glass project since early in the design process. He told me

Why Iron Man 3'€™s Director Ruled Hollywood

Why Iron Man 3’€™s Director Ruled Hollywood [http://www.vulture.com/2013/04/why-iron-man-3s-director-ruled-hollywood.html]: > In his screenplays, populated with broken men who rouse themselves from hangovers and beatdowns to defeat the bad guy, it’s Black himself who emerges as the movie’s most charismatic antihero. He

"Ain't No Reason" - The Magazine

“Ain’t No Reason” – The Magazine [http://the-magazine.org/12/aint-no-reason]: > Speakers of it use the same unspoken rules whenever they use the language, and different speakers apply the same rules consistently. If such speakers were just poor at using standard English, you wouldn’t see most AAVE speakers

A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy

A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy [http://abovethecrowd.com/2013/04/18/a-rake-too-far-optimal-platformpricing-strategy/] : > iOS could have been both the definitive Facebook mobile device, AND the definitive Amazon shopping device. They could have been integrated from the beginning at a deep level: your social network in contacts; your

Conservative Party 1978 Manifesto (2nd draft)

Conservative Party 1978 Manifesto (2nd draft) [http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/110273]: Kind of neat: a draft of the Toey manifesto with Thatcher’s hand written tweaks. Docs like this make me realise how close PR and politics are as disciplines. But there’s nothing like seeing the work in

Media

A perfect journo email app

After years of working with journalists and writing myself, the challenge of composing emails that stand out in the right way has become something of an obsession. But I wonder, could you design an email client for journalists that did smart things with the messages to make their life easier

A Manager's Manifesto

A Manager’s Manifesto [https://medium.com/on-management/be5f6b118084]: Management is still far and away the biggest most fascinating challenge I’ve faced in my career so far. There’s a strange serene wisdom to the people who naturally pull it off – never fail to be impressed by those who

'Now Is The Best Time': A Critique Of BioShock Infinite

‘Now Is The Best Time’: A Critique Of BioShock Infinite [http://kotaku.com/now-is-the-best-time-a-critique-of-bioshock-infinite-472517493] : Kotaku: > This is a game that lives in its own alternate universe, is in love with its own cleverness, instead of being genuinely clever. This sentence is as true of the article as the game