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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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
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...
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....
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...