"We had learned of the “done, done, done” mantra (coded, tested, approved by the product owner), but that wasn’t specific enough for us. We needed more guidance to know when we were actually there."

We're keen to consider "done" a binary state at F

"SavaJe done right"

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

“It was like a paper blog or interactive text”

"GPS is slowly being enabled in phones and devices on a greater scale than ever before. If it's not built in, a quick purchase of a small Bluetooth dongle will allow modern phones andsmartphones to run fully featured mapping software"

"XML is suspicious: no one should have spent the time to develop a single, consistent methodology for data interchange when any possible effort could only be in vain. "

"This phone wants to second-guess what you're searching for. The company that should be worried about all this is actually Tegic (maker of T9). Goggle may be designing a much better method of predictive data input based on behaviour not dictionaries."

Good to see the sort of scale involved. Puts of a few of those business plans into perspective.

"Any project leader that has any sense will not "waste" 10% or more of development team productivity. They will move heaven and earth to avoid it and get more features done sooner with higher quality."

"In a world where it is increasingly easy to (geo) tag places with memories how does the speed and velocity of change affect how this information is discovered, used?"

Ooooh lovely.

"My pigeon will make gravy / With string and twigs and dirt. / Our guests will smile indulgently / But leave before dessert."

"All our apps have Asperger's. They can't read our faces, movement, tone or anything."

"The game works a bit like 'hangman' where players have to guess who sang a particular lyric."

"We may not have influence on the physical factors of this, but we certainly have a large influence over how our brains deal with and process that information and how we behave subsequently."

Predictive commandline interfaces are the future of mobile? Hmm, why haven't google bought Qix yet...