Jeff Rock

Oh, Amazon. This is not the way to court a potential developer.

It’s a very strange feeling, holding this box. There’s a little piece of me in every one.

Well, not technically. And you don’t really see it until you download it from the App Store. I mean, there’s totally a picture of it on the box though.

Oh, whatever. The important part is that I have one and you don’t. Ha!

kristenrock:

I have an opportunity to intern and see the world,

it only takes a second of your time and means the world to me, (literally!)

thanks!

Voted. Love the video, too.

The Google Apps team:

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ​as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

What a wonderful email to start your day with. Well done fellas. The change starts with Google Docs and Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. Hopefully this means that Google will follow through with all of their consumer products. They are one of the few companies that, by doing nothing more that dropping support for a browser, could seriously affect real usage numbers. That is both incredible and frightening.

So. This happened.

Franklin:

My first professional portrait. You have to do these things once you’re famous.

(Photo via Garrett Ross).

sowhatifilikeprettythings:

meaghano:

(via corley)

Ha, so that WAS a real magazine!

Is that Franklin I see??

That’s totally my dog Franklin!

Does anyone know what magazine this is?

topherchris:

Here’s some video because the Tumblr app makes it so simple!

Man. You guys are totally getting your money’s worth during this trip.

Fully equipped to brave Winter Storm-Blast 2010™.

Radiohead – Videotape.

Not sure how your city rolls, but here in Richmond, we call the days of the week whatever the fuck we want.

John Gruber in response to Marco Arment:

I would say that redefining mobile computing is exactly what happened. It is surprisingly, delightfully, iPhone-esque in many ways. But if you use it for just a few minutes, it becomes obvious that the iPad is not a big stretched-out iPhone, but rather that the iPhone is a shrunken stripped-down version of the iPad. The iPad is what they’ve been building toward all along.

This is, perhaps the reason so many people are disappointed. Do you remember that event in 2007? The iPhone OS was so revolutionary that when we saw it on a phone it was mind blowing.

So imagine for a moment that there was no iPhone (gasp!). Then, out of the blue Apple introduces a beautiful touch screen computer that quite literally redefines the mobile interaction model. Truly desktop-class computing with your hands. Now imagine that in January of 2011 they take everything you love about the iPad and put it in your pocket.

Put simply, I’m starting to think that the iPad came out second when it should have come out first. I sincerely hope that it’s fate isn’t sealed by it’s place in time.

David Pogue:

At the same time, the bashers should be careful, too. As we enter Phase 2, remember how silly you all looked when you all predicted the iPhone’s demise in that period before it went on sale.

Like the iPhone, the iPad is really a vessel, a tool, a 1.5-pound sack of potential. It may become many things. It may change an industry or two, or it may not. It may introduce a new category — something between phone and laptop — or it may not. And anyone who claims to know what will happen will wind up looking like a fool.

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

The internet can be a cruel place. Before you rifle off your thoughts on the newest i-thing, do yourself a favor. First, take a deep breath. Feel better? Good. Now read this list before you hit “post”.

1. Remember, you probably aren’t the intended market. Do you understand the difference between bash and tcsh? Trust me on this one. Put down the laptop.
2. Never post about the device on the first day. As self-rightous as you feel right now, you’re probably wrong. Your gut-reaction will only solidify how terrible you are at prediction. But you won’t know it until someone publicly embarrasses you 5 years later when the 3rd revision of i-thing is the hottest product since negative blogging.
3. You don’t know shit about producing/engineering physical products. You understand manufacturing schedules? Consumer trends? So you know exactly what Apple makes per device? What the burn rate is? What the software cost to write? Then perhaps it’s out of your depth to tell the internet how one of the largest producers of the most popular consumer products in your lifetime has no clue what they’re doing.
4. For everyone who feels like you do, there are 5 that don’t. And they have YouTube channels.

So what do you think, champ? Still feeling up to it? Then fire away! Just don’t say I didn’t warn you.

OMG GUYS DID YOU HEAR!?!?!?

BOOM.