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It went down like this. Jon and Tricia and I were working one day and we started brainstorming ideas about games we’d like to develop. We had an itch to scratch about creating something for Twitter at the same time. Naturally, where...
Aunt Mary’s Haikus
Posted by Kelly Abbott on Mar 10th, 2010 in lessons learned in the trenches, on publishing, the internet as we see it | 0 Comments
When the death knell of newspapers was but an echo in the valleys of the Internet along comes Apple. Apple doing the Apple thing by at once re-inventing a market and resurrecting its potential. The...
“Harder to scale”
Posted by Kelly Abbott on Feb 7th, 2010 in lessons learned in the trenches, the little things | 0 Comments
I opened up the LA Times this morning and turned to my favorite Sunday section: books. Having little time to indulge in the art of the written word, instead I like to read about what other people...
Google Drops Support for IE 5&6
Also in the mail this morning is a nastygram from Google to Microsoft. Why it came to me is somewhat a mystery. Therefore I feel I must relay its contents. They are: Dear Google Apps admin, In...Amazon Data Transfer Rates Lowered
Amazon sent us an early valentine’s day letter this morning: Dear AWS Customer, As you know, we are constantly working to drive our costs down and become more operationally efficient. We then...How Do I Publish a Book in the Apple iPa...
Steve Jobs with the iPad Hi, Steve. Thanks for innovating. We love your work. But there’s just this one thing that’s irking us now. As an independent publisher who’s primary channel for sales...iWant Relief
I want 3 iPads. One each for me and my wife – to use a Kindle-like device. And one for my son, who’s two years old, to use as an ebook reader/portable video player/personal gaming device. Say what you...What the world needs now…
What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone. “What...1,000 Books Sold
We realized going into this that the gain was not profit. We thought we’d learn something and that, to us, was something we couldn’t quite put a value on. Nevertheless, we didn’t go into it...The Complete Guide to Google Wave –...
Book Cover With much pride in our work, we announce the arrival of our first published eBook, the Complete Guide to Google Wave, by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash. It’s the first book published...Core Market, Core Values
Core Market There comes a time in the life cycle of a failing product where the progenitors, in spite of their best intentions to develop a strong set of features the customer wants, find themselves...The New TypePad: “Simply Better...
Cleveland Rocks In the history of North-South style debates, there’s no getting around the fact that lovers of A are likely to be haters of B. It’s as true when we’re talking about Macs vs....Kindle and the future of reading : The N...
It takes me about a month to read any given edition of the New Yorker. Given that it’s a weekly periodical, there is no satisfaction in “completing” an issue. Instead of turning the final...Recent Posts
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