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Apple vs. HP on shopping UX
This is how Apple sells laptops:
This is how HP sells laptops:
See any difference?
The main reason for this is probably different company culture.
It would probably take 6 months and infinite meetings and comitees to even start thinking about changing HP store’s h3 font size.
When Steve Jobs says/said ‘jump’ people ask ‘How high?’(Source: twitter.com)
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"Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB"
Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO @werner)
And with this quote, a gamebreaker on the data market is launched
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Notes myNoSQL: Offline and Production Notes on MongoDBLast week has featured two of the most interesting posts about MongoDB: first coming from Mathias Meyer (@roidrage) ☞ offline investigation of MongoDB and the second, a set of notes from running MongoDB in production published on ☞ Boxed Iced blog.
If you are interested in getting…
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Alan van Roemburg thanks to Takamasa!
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Understanding the mobile smartphone user from an ads point of view.
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Notes"The thousands of startups today that are pitching themselves at app competitions or in industry conferences all seem to think being a startup is enough. That daring to come up with some idea, any idea, and build a beta site is enough. That the users will come and then the business model will come and then the money will come. Somehow the act of creating a startup has become the goal instead of the building of a business…Yes, it has become cheaper to start a business, but has it also cheapened what it means to build a startup?"Stacey Higginbotham, Have Startups Become a Fetish?
I wonder. With Startup weekends, Startup bootcamps, Startup schools, Startup incubators, Startup America, and on and on I wonder if the term “Startup” has officially become meaningless.
There was a time when “Startup” meant innovation, rebellion, drive, vision, troublemaking, disruption and choosing a road less travelled. Now, a couple minutes of thought and a couple hours of work at a hackathon and you’re a “Startup”. Friendly funding flows freely. Quick flips or take off chips in the next round. Pivot, pivot, fail. Repeat. A web so packed with how-to blogs and ninja like methodologies you’d think starting a successful company was a solved problem.
For fear of being overly dramatic, I’ll stop. And ask. Is the word “Startup” meaningless? If so, why and does its loss of meaning really matter? If not, what does it mean now?
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Fight Club as a barcode. OMG, I already feel the pressure of the RIAA behind my back!
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Love this ad for Gary Vaynerchuk’s book in the Subway station at 23rd and Park.
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Notes Marco.org: Subscriptions and the new In-App Purchase requirementApple’s new subscription-billing requirement has generated a lot of bad press and debate. The new rule, from the App Store Review Guidelines (developer account required):
11.2 Apps utilizing a system other than the In App Purchase API (IAP) to purchase content, functionality, or services in…
(Source: marco)
