• Tom deMarco on software engineering - READ THIS.
  • The Android Multitouch Conspiracy, or lack thereof.
  • My Life Offline: "I felt not just happy, but firmly happy — solid, is the best way I can put it. I felt like I was in control of my life instead of the other way around, like its challenges just bounced off me as I kept doing what I wanted. Normally I feel buffeted by events, a thousand tiny distractions nagging at the back of my head at all times. Offline, I felt in control of my own destiny. I felt, yes, serene."
  • Design in the Open, "a community of practice for design & user experience people in Open Source"
  • Mozilla Design Challenge, Summer '09: "Reinventing Tabs in the Browser – How can we create, navigate and manage multiple web sites within the same browser instance?"
  • The Pushbutton Web: "where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook"
  • Ricardo Semler won't take control: "If you open up everything, including the company’s books and board meetings, you’ll find that the employees are honest, responsible people."
  • Webkit has a new web inspector;
  • Terrifying password "recovery" (read cracking) speeds;
  • You can't move these days without tripping over a zippy Android UI demo...
  • Stats on iPhones - interesting to see the breakdown of both hardware and software versions out there. I'm surprised we're not hearing more people point out the obvious: iPhone hasn't avoided fragmentation, just managed it... thus far;
  • How 31 year olds consume media: "Will consider getting a Wii when Chucky Egg and Pong are available."
  • What Jeff Bezos knows: "The only reason Amazon exists today in any form: we always put customers first. We always obsess over customers."
  • Ive on Apple, I loved his comments about taking responsibility for execution of design: "design is about much more than the studio and the drawing board"