• The story behind Vogue's iPad app: "It has been much more work and much more complex to build and create it and work out what we were doing than I expected";
  • Dead Drops: "an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am 'injecting' USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space";
  • History in the Unmaking: "Thanks to archivists around the world, photos of past times and places are making their way to Google Earth through the historical imagery feature. Once enabled, you can scroll back and forth through time to make and unmake history with your fingertips";
  • John Sculley On Steve Jobs, a surprisingly humble take on things that's been doing the rounds recently;
  • Twitter and The Apprentice – some quick observations, some really interesting analysis (and pointers to data sources) for live audience reactions to TV programming;
  • Smart < feature phones = the unbalanced equation: "Smartphones get all the media attention, but it’s feature phones that are still driving the mobile industry";
  • How To Live Forever! Or Why Habits Are A Curse: "...time goes faster as you get older, but this is because, as a general rule, by the time we are older, we have settled in on the story lines and narrative arcs by which we structure our lives. We sign on as wife, potter, architect, bar tender, business person, or whatever, and so our lives are governed by time- and event- structures (shifts, projects, pregnancies, etc.) that have nothing to do with biological or physical time. ";
  • Interesting stats from the Ovi store;
  • Groupon's Development Philosophy: Really Short Iterations: "In support of this practice of short iterations delivered to production quickly, Pelletier said that Groupon does "lots of automated testing and all of the things you'd expect to make [it] safe and possible to do.""
  • Windsor and Maidenhead publishes linked spending data online: "The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has staked a claim as the first local authority in the UK to publish open and linked data, in support of financial transparency."
  • History Hackday: "There's a lot of our history out there for which the full story is split and spread across many archives and organisations, and to be told it needs to be pieced together"
  • How much does it cost to develop an iPhone application?; some very interesting stats from one of the developers for Twitterific;
  • A Stranger Calling To Say They Love You Isn’t Weird If You’re Paying For It: "or $15 a month ($10, if you’re willing sign up for an auto-reoccurring monthly bill), HeySweetheart will have a stranger (male or female, your choice) call you to tell you that they love you, miss you, think you’re special, or any other sweet nothing they can come up with on the spot. "
  • 6 minute story: "a growing collection of stories written in six minutes or less"
  • How do you motivate your small startup of 6 people to put in everything they have: "I've a small startup and we've hit an inflection point. And we need to put in everything we have to try to get to the next level. Stock options only do so much. What other strategies are there to keep people impassioned/motivated/working?"
  • Neo-minimalism and the rise of the technomads: "I held a huge garage sale and sold a ton of my stuff, gave up my lease in Venice Beach, CA, packed up a suitcase and a backpack of stuff I might need, and put everything else in storage to be reconsidered at a later date. Then, I set out to travel the world for the rest of the year... You may be thinking that this is an easy thing for a young single dude to try out, but with a family it would be impossible. I should have mentioned that my wife is traveling with me. And my son. Who was just born this past March. "
  • Burning Man's open source cell phone system could help save the world: "There are not too many places you can go where tens of thousands of people show up, all of them with cell phones, in a hostile physical environment – lots of heat and dust, with no power and no cell service"
  • What to do when Scrum doesn't work, lovely presentation of real-world experience;
  • Fork it!: " It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness"
  • BERG on Patina: "the history of a product written into its skin."
  • Managing UX participation in agile projects