I’m having a week off. The girlfriend and I will shortly be departing for warmer climes but as a techy couple who both work in marketing, it’s not just a matter of turning off work email and calling it a day. There are notifications and social networks and calendars and second s…

I didn’t invent Tradeshift. At best, I’ve just been involved in deciding some of the ways we talk about it. But I think it’s a good idea: Connect every company in the world on an open platform for business interactions (5m soon.) Let anyone build Apps that use those connections …

I didn’t invent Tradeshift. At best, I’ve just been involved in deciding some of the ways we talk about it. But I think it’s a good idea: Connect every company in the world on an open platform for business interactions (5m soon.) Let anyone build Apps that use those connections …

Smartphones rose to power because they took a device you always had with you and crammed it full of extra value. These portable computers used the ‘phone’ concept as a trojan horse at just the right time of mobile data, miniaturisation and social networks. Before long, most peopl…

Articles like this show the labour of good journalism.

As it turned out, lots of people wanted to play it, but very few people wanted to pay for it. We made a free game — we just didn’t know it

Most interesting description of freemium I’ve heard in the gaming sector.

Google fans seem to eat this kumbaya stuff up, to really believe it. But Google is the company that built Android after the iPhone, Google Plus after Facebook

I don’t think anyone understands Apple and has finger on the pulse of how it moves like John Gruber at Daring Fireball.

But what’s equally interesting is just how disconnected he can be at times about other tech brands - perhaps Google especially. He’s so assimilated and in tune with Apple’s way of thinking that he almost can’t conceive how another company may have a different philosophy.

It’s an interesting perspective in journalism today, where so many are generalists afraid to commit too heartily to an opinion too extreme in one direction.

Can you sustain the kind of virtuoso understanding that someone like Gruber has on Apple and still be able to relate to other companies in the same way? I think a range of writers come close but maintaining the mental dissonance of those different perspectives perhaps stops them reaching the same consistent depth and insight as these rare specialists.

Starner has worked with Google on the Glass project since early in the design process. He told me privacy has been a goal from the start, and the team intentionally built in “social cues” like the glow of the video screen to alert people that the device is active.

Stuff like this reveals how much a part of design process privacy concerns are these days. The media constantly pretends tech companies don’t care but it’s not that simple, they are smarter than that.

In his screenplays, populated with broken men who rouse themselves from hangovers and beatdowns to defeat the bad guy, it’s Black himself who emerges as the movie’s most charismatic antihero. He might be a loose cannon with unorthodox methods, but you can’t deny that the man gets the job done.

I find this fact the best and worst thing about Shane Black movies — but still interesting to see how far his voice permeates the script. And a good lesson about breaking “the rules” to win the game.