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The real surprise of the App Store isn’t number of downloads or revenue

That the iPhone’s App Store has delivered 60 million downloads and generated an average of $1 million a day in revenue since its launch a month ago isn’t all that surprising.
To begin with, the App Store couldn’t be any easier to use. All apps av…


Demo Gods Are Watching - 10 Ways to Demo Your Product

Over at Techcrunch Mike and Jason are busy guys and they run a new event for hot startups.  They’ve seen their share of demos.  They share their observations on how to demo your product - what to do and what not to do.  This list came from TC’s …


H. L. Mencken

“For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.”


California Supreme Court: Non-compete clauses are not enforceable

The California State Supreme Court has ruled that non-compete clauses in employment contracts are not enforceable in California. I’m reminded of the study from the Duke Center for the Public Domain that concluded that the reason that the tech corridor …


Foo for Bar: Kicking Ass with Outcome-Based Thinking

The other day, I was talking with someone who is trying to encourage a Getting Things Done-like work approach amongst the people on his team. We started talking about which parts of David Allen’s GTD system appear to have the greatest long-term impact on the people who have adopted it and who ultimately [...]


Piracy: Stealing or Sharing?

In my last post I made a key assumption, that piracy is stealing.  Recently I was in a conversation where someone challenged that assumption and made me think.
Laws around the world are, by and large, representations or codifications of our collective sense of right and wrong, our morals in other words.  In my previous article [...]


How to Win at Rock, Paper, Scissors

The not-so-ancient game of Rochambeau has been deciding restaurants, chores and front seats for years. By mastering the decisive gesture game, Graham Walker has been getting his way for a long time. As the author of :The Official Rock Paper Scissors Strategy Guide”, he knows what will get you rocking when they’re scissoring.
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