Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/22/10
Halloween is a funny time, especially if you have a six-year-old boy with an active imagination and a level of cynicism that belies his age.
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Spinner Rage, or A Level of Detail Only Designers Grok
These days, we’re all familiar with the variations of Apple’s now-famous spinner animation that’s the modern-day incarnation of the ‘waiting’ hourglass. It began at Apple and has since spread just about everywhere in many variations. Panic’s Cabel Sasser found a web spinner created by Ajaxload.info that is driving him nuts. And the reason it’s driving
Read More...Apple Reports Record Quarter for Macs, iPhones, iPads
Apple, reporting just upwards of $20 billion in revenue and $4.3 billion in profit: Apple sold 3.89 million Macs during the quarter, a 27 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 14.1 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 91 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.05 million iPods during
Read More...QUOTE: On Being in the People Business
“We are in the people business. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the banking business, your customers, you’re in the people business, and it’s how you treat people. I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I’d like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it’s
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 10/15/10
The Internet was kind this week, bestowing upon us some fine hypertext products way better than pictures of cats with brutalized English captions. Because you’re busy and have other things to do than scour the underbelly (not that underbelly) of the Internet, I have collected the highlights below for you to enjoy over the weekend.
Read More...Business Has a Language Problem
Nobody says, 'This paragraph is too crisp and clear. Can we muck it up a bit with some business clichés?"
Read More...MIPRO at the Houston Regional User Group (HRUG) Tomorrow
Tomorrow, we will be speaking at the Houston Regional Users Group at the Oracle Houston Office. Nationally known as a PeopleSoft ALM/EAM guru, he’ll spend an hour giving an overview of PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (especially Maintenance Management) and why it’s becoming so popular. Specifically, this session will focus on the value of an integrated ALM
Read More...The First Windows Phone 7 Ads Emerge
The first two Windows Phone 7 (WP7) ads have been released, and they are, in a word, excellent. The first, called ‘Season of the Witch’, is set to Donovan’s song by the same name, depicts a post-apocalyptic scene of accidents caused by people with their heads buried in their phones. Very clever, and the music is a
Read More...A Video Tour of 37Signals’ New Office
I’ve always loved architecture, even though I can’t draw or model myself out of a paper bag. In particular, I love to see how other people work: the choices they make to enable them to be creative, think and do their jobs. You can go read about micro-setups like what computers and tools folks use
Read More...Linkology: Friday Links for 10/8/10
One quick thing: tomorrow is the Michigan vs. MSU game, which is a bit of a big deal here in Michigan. And an even bigger deal here at MIPRO.
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