Cleaning out the personal inbox, I find…
- Long profile of Marissa Meyer at Google, from San Francisco magazine, strays from the tech, deliberately.
- An interesting application for a tablet PC, where physics acts on 2D objects line-drawn with a “crayon.”
- A mapping application for Facebook, which I haven’t installed.
- Worry about how to back up a blog on WordPress.com from David Strom. Backing up your own hosted WP blog is easy; I would think WordPress.com is similarly easy, but haven’t checked.
- A reminder why I think Amazon is a good medium-term investment. Not just because of the now-boring SmugMug example, but AWS is a real advantage for the company.
- The rants of Calacanis and Cuban about how to run startups. Not that I agree or disagree necessarily, but… nothing new here.
- A New Zealand travelogue to make you wish you were there, with similar time to spare.
- Bug reports as SDK feedback… a different approach. I prefer Idea Bank, but as long as the feedback is given, it’s worth listening to. Not following it is OK, as long as it’s a conscious decision, preferably explained.
- Impressed that Tim Bray finds Tolkien a good bedtime story for an 8-year-old. I admit to being thrilled the boy can read on his own, but if you’re going to spend time reading aloud to a young reader, might as well go for the best.
- I’m living the adoption-led market, though the term is new to me. Makes a lot of sense…and it’s a fundamentally different relationship with your customer. I prefer the connection and the interdependence that’s built in to this model.
- Three links where design intersects with technology.
- My D&D days are long behind me, but Gary Gygax inspired so many.