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 print world – itself in shambles – was the first Apple courtier. As an independent publisher, we’re still waiting for [...]
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 the two worlds collided, the byproduct was inspired. That was a year ago. [...]
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 are reading. Today, I happened up on an Essay by Dani Shapiro where she extolls the virtues of [...]
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 order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the [...]
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 pass on those cost savings to our customers in the form of lower prices. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are lowering AWS [...]