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What does it really mean to be a "Product Guy" (via Tech Crunch)

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The first, and I suppose seemingly easiest claim and means to justify your place in the startup world, as someone who has no experience, is to call yourself a product person.
But that claim ge ...

Adobe Donates Flex to Apache

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In a move that appears to be another step away from its Flash platform, Adobe has submitted the code for its Flash-based Flex framework to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to be managed as ...

Just got introduced to the Yahoo! Cocktails framework, worth keeping an eye on.

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via developer.yahoo.com If their 'Livestand' iPad app is truly written using this framework, this could be really promising. One of the first apps I've seen (besides Netflix) that pr ...

Opportunity Ripe for Hyperlocals to Help SMBs Get Social (via Street Fight)

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there is a wide-open “Blue Ocean” opportunity for companies to step in and service literally hundreds of thousands of SMBs who need to develop a social marketing plan. Business owners don’t hav ...

Groupon Allows Businesses to Target Customers and Recycle Daily Deals

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What could be even more appealing to local business clients is a new option to reopen deals for customers who best fit their criteria. Groupon will promote the deal to a subscriber in the area, ...

Is the iPhone Replacing the Motorcycle? - NYTimes.com

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to say it another way, it’s as if the recession induced a coma in all the potential new motorcyclists, and in so many of the already experienced motorcyclists, from which they woke changed, cha ...

MotArt: Franck's Norton Nourish

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via themotart-journal.com Beautiful Vintage Norton Nourish 750. ...

Is Siri the next Revolutionary User Interface after Multi-Touch? (via @asymco)

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It’s been five years since multi-touch. Is the next “RUI” already here? Is Siri the next RUI?
There are many things going for it:

It’s not good enough
There are many smart people who are d ...

How E-Mail habits are changing (infographic)

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http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/assets_c/2011/09/Email-Client-Market-S... Have seen this first hand with the small business owners we've been interviewing. Most are heavily using email on thei ...

New Field Notes 'Fire Spotter' memo books arrived today.

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Pretenders: Why mobile Web apps should stop trying to act like native apps « cvi...

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If you’re making a Web app, don’t pretend to be something you’re not. If you do, your users will notice right away and it will turn them off. Besides, it’s a lot of work doing all that pretendi ...

SvN Flashback: Product roadmaps are dangerous

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SvN Flashback: Product roadmaps are dangerous Signal vs. Noise Instead of the roadmap, just look out a few weeks at a time. Work on the next most important thing. What’s the point of ...

Great App World synopsis in the BGR BlackBerry PlayBook Review

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Just because you can swing a baseball bat and hit a baseball doesn’t mean you can play in the Majors, and after spending almost a half hour browsing through App World looking at the PlayBook ap ...

I wish the iPhone 4 cell signal was this hard to block!

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Finally blocked it with a metal box, 1000 nails and a fireproof safe... ...

A List Apart: Articles: Rapid Prototyping with Sinatra

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If you’re a web designer or developer, you’re well acquainted with prototyping. From raw wireframing to creating interfaces in Photoshop, designers map out how sites will work before they create them. Over the past few years, the protoyping process has changed significantly. With browser makers ...

Goliath: Non-blocking, Ruby 1.9 Web Server - igvita.com

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There are easily half a dozen of factors you need to consider when picking an app server: the choice of the VM, implementation model, performance and memory usage, driver and library availability, community support, and so forth. In other words, it is a complex set of requirements, and no one ...

css3 Buttons like github

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Design then Code

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Be notified when new Design Then Code tutorials are published.Tapworthy by Josh ClarkOne of the best books on iOS interface and user experience design.Your Design Is Wrong (And Here's Why)How to identify and fix a design that has execution problems.Kill The Settings, Build Opinionated SoftwareBuild ...

Noise and Textures

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Adding subtle noise or texture to UI elements can look great, but what’s the best way to do it?The goal is to find the best method that maintains quality when scaled, but is also easy to implement and edit. The full criteria:Probably the most obvious method for adding texture to a shape is to ...

Rounded Rects I. Photoshop

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Rounded rectangles, or roundrects as QuickDraw so fondly calls them, are standard fare on a web and interface designer’s utility belt. So common that the footer on this page itself contains 12 roundrects. So common that it’s rare for web pages or apps to not contain a roundrect or ...

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