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Back to School: clear-out of links

Aug 31, 2010

  • Lessons learned at Dropbox and Xobni, going from zero to a million users;
  • Nice sample of a clean, easy-to-read contract;
  • 157 app stats you need to know about;
  • Three reminders about platform businesses, very clear and concise warnings;
  • How I feel about downloading apps, ho ho. Android only I presume.
  • MeeGo are having a conference in Dublin this November. I hope to be there...
  • iAd may not be cost effective for developers; I'm really interested in learning how the production costs compare to response rates for these ads. I just don't get how they can be competitive with low-effort text and banner ads, if you're measuring responses;
  • Why Smartphone adoption may not be as big as you think, decoupling adoption from growth rates;
  • SquareUp looks interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing it in the wild;
  • The Manifesto for Half-Arsed Software Development: "That is, while the items on the left sound nice in theory, we’re an enterprise company, and there’s no way we’re letting go of the items on the right.". I think you could apply most of this to businesses other than large enterprises, mind...
  • Management lessons I learned at Apple, I found this extremely interesting given how little I've read of how Cupertino do their stuff;
  • Mediocre advertising can now be produced automatically. Well that's the ad industry fucked then.

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