For obvious reasons, it’s true. Yet, at the same time, it’s sad. It seems we have taken a strange turn in the direction of business within the “tech sector”. With more and more drive to be the most popular and highest funded contender, less and less about the actual business. True, they go hand in hand; without one, there isn’t the other. Still, I beg the question: how did companies ever survive before the invent and widespread, public use of the Internet? Sure, there was still the idea of venture capital, but there wasn’t he broad idea of a world-wide market place. To few, there were: the corporate conglomerates that had made it to that level. But nowhere in the American entrepreneur’s mind did they consider the fact that their first market should be the entire world. Rather, it usually started with their town. Then to their zip code. Further to their county, state and so on. The change took place when the business landscape changed and the barriers to travel across the world and back instantaneously and transparently. We should really expect nothing less. If given the chance to run faster, jump higher, lift more, eat more; we take it. We’re human. It’s our blessed nature to want more, take more and reach higher. It’s one of the few things we know and do really well. My question still stands though: why? When you ask that question of yourself, you should see the doors that open. Continue reading →
Posts Tagged: #thinkaboutit
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Apr 10
Scaling Your Applications with a Snuggie
People have grown accustom of battling the evil curse of ignorance. There’s no avoiding it. There is, however, education that can help subside some of the symptoms of this crippling disease. Most of the time, I can ride my horse, Apathy, through the Deserts of Ignorance, closing my eyes and ears to the misinformed sand-storms along the way. Still, there are times I feel just passionate enough to actually say something. So here I am. On my soapbox once again speaking to a mirror about preparing your application for the web and its massive scale.
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Apr 10
iPhone 4 can finally multitask. But should it? Live experiment proves not.
Since the dawn of the iPhone, it has been revered by just about everyone who first slid their finger across its smooth glass surface – including myself. Even with its few, long-lasting short-comings (Copy and Paste, anyone?). However, just yesterday, Apple decided to announce the bucket of water they would douse on of the last remaining flame, ushereing a bloom of black smoke from the most popular mobile OS: multitasking. For the longest time, Apple has defended the decision to prevent this level of context switching from the handheld primarily to prevent poorly designed software applications from hogging all the resources on the device (amongst other things). As someone who has ever owned an old Windows CE device, I for one can understand and appreciate this decision. Still, everywhere you turn today, people are talking about the same thing: The new iPhone OS, out this summer, will finally handle multitasking. The question I ask is should it? And I ask this with proof from the limited multitasking that is available in iPhone 3.
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Feb 10
Internet writing am hard
A while back, I read this on a Facebook status update.
Going to right a new business plan, for investors to see if I can raise some money… This should be fun
It’s my guess you won’t be all that successful.