links for 2007-02-26
February 26, 2007 | Comments-
I loved this book, mainly for the extremely candid stories of the early days of startups. Most histories of "the early days" miss out these completely-winging-it and personal-strife aspects...
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"money that feels different when you’re down to your last ten Euro note"
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"For people living in the real world, having a great network connection at all times day or night is a non-starter the minute the airplane door closes to fly you to your next destination."
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"...a service that will let utilities such as power and phone companies send reminders to customers via text message, giving them an opportunity to pay their bills before they lose prompt payment discounts or face other sanctions"
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"If a major project is truly innovative, you cannot possibly know its exact cost and its exact schedule at the beginning. And if in fact you do know the exact cost and the exact schedule, chances are that the technology is obsolete.'' Lovely :)
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Permissions keep popping up in apps we're working on. They're a difficult place to balance flexibility and ease-of-use...
Busy bees
February 24, 2007 | CommentsArgh. We're rather busy at the moment so I've been concentrated on Doing Real Things For Clients rather than thinking and blogging. So it's remiss of me not to have mentioned a few things we've been doing that are really floating my boat. Apologies for the vagueness, I've signed so many NDAs over the years that I'm not really allowed to say anything any more :) I'll shout more here when I get permission, promise.
- Some front-end work for a big handset vendor... which might even actually get launched. Seeing your stuff appear in the marketplace always feel nice :)
- A prototyping project for a handset vendor;
- A mobile ad campaign for a large cosmetics brand;
- More distribution for mobile puzzles;
- And last (but by no means least), we're working with Hotxt! I can't say much about what we're doing except: watch this space :)
Oh, and at last we relaunched our web site (cheers to Mr Ribot and the late Mr Andrews for their work on this). We're off to the lovely Murasaki tonight to celebrate endings and beginnings of a few projects: Flickr will record all.
links for 2007-02-23
February 23, 2007 | Commentslinks for 2007-02-22
February 22, 2007 | Comments-
"fp put out some good stuff so I think he can code". I take increasingly smaller amounts of responsibility for actually coding stuff round here nowadays. But cheers guys, much appreciated :)
links for 2007-02-20
February 20, 2007 | Comments-
Beautiful :)