Category: Business
It’s not All About the Quest for Pageviews
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I wrote yesterday about sensationalist reporting at The Verge regarding the iPhone 5 mockup hands on. We all know they’re doing it for pageviews, the real unfortunate part is that advertisers are paying for pageviews. When ever a client talks about pageviews while we are discussing the goals for a new site design I always
Talking about Time Tracking
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Ruby Freelancers had a great discussion on time tracking. As a freelance developer tracking and billing time is how you make money. If you don’t bill enough time you don’t pay bills. I’m always wondering if I could bill more time so hearing them talk about how much time they bill each week on average.
Twitter: Turning Kings in to Serfs
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Ben Brooks felt strongly enough about the changes to the Twitter API changes that he pushed this post past his recently implemented pay wall. When you are focused on just making money you not only end up screwing people over, but you end up gutting your service. Twitter is gutting the soul from itself and
Dicking Around or Putting Out?
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Go talk with a group of bloggers or programmers for a few minutes and you’ll end up talking about the tools you use or the specific workflow. Some people in that conversation are going to go dump what they are currently using to try out the tools that others suggested in the quest for a
They Make Crappy Hardware Anyway
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So it seems that there is some risk to Microsoft with producing the new Surface Tablet. The company says in the document that “our Surface devices will compete with products made by our OEM partners, which may affect their commitment to our platform.” The real problem here is the OEM’s. HP, Dell, Acer, and all
It Sounds Good to Say We’re Busy
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Awesome article over on the New York times about being busy. Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day. I can’t help but wonder whether all
Most People use the Native Twitter Client Anyway
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I’ve talked more than once about Twitter restricting it’s API. Sure most people I know don’t use the native Twitter clients, but most people I know easily qualify as power users of pretty much anything they use. It seems that the general Twitter user uses Twitter’s apps or the website. Twitter has these stats as
Here Goes Twitter Screwing Around
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[As I talked about][talk] a while ago, Twitter is starting to get jealous with its data and API. Just recently the gave [Instagram the shaft][inst] by shutting it out of the API which allows Instagram users to find other Twitter friends. While I can certainly see that Instagram is a heavy user of the API
Say No
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The most important thing you can do to manage your time is to say NO. Most freelancer’s I know don’t say no to almost any project. This means they end up not having time to do the work they want. I bet if you take a look how you spend your time during the average
Sparrow was Purchased
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In what is entirely a talent acquisition ([they say as much][much]) [Sparrow was purchase by Google][purch]. Marco Arment [has a great post][talent] on talent acquisitions. Without a doubt most products and people are for sale for the right price. Marco event hints that there might be a price at which his team of one is
