Tag Archives for Business
Apple, iTunes Match, and Piracy
System-wide versioning in Lion was announced today. That’s awesome. I’ve been wanting that in every application I’ve used (in particular working on my book). To have it across all of them is just flat out cool. And the resume feature … Continue reading
On Groupon
Good analysis of what’s going wrong over there. Fits nicely with what I wrote in October of last year. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Review: The New Capitalist Manifesto by Umair Haque
Fundamentally redefining capitalism in non-narrow terms. A full spectrum understanding of cost, debt, capital. The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business “Constructive capitalists aren’t merely seeking to be better than rivals in yesterday’s terms. They are fundamentally redefining … Continue reading
Luis von Ahn’s Trajectory
von Ahn is the guy behind reCAPTCHA (digitizes books through those captcha gateways), and before that the Google Image Labeler (which turns labeling Google’s image index into a game). Now he’s building Duolingo, where users translate content online while learning … Continue reading
The Moment Jobs Turned Apple Around
For the first three years Jony was having a pretty miserable time designing Newton PDAs and printer trays,’ says Clive Grinyer. ‘It was a bad existence.’ The design team was eventually forced to surrender the Cray supercomputer it used for … Continue reading