June 2010
6 posts
“Midway through the second half, while watching Howard rush the ball toward his...”
– George Vecsey, NYTimes: A Foreign Game Looks Very American. If you missed my post yesterday about The American Spirit, read it now and you’ll see both Alexi and I learned the same thing about Americans.
The American Spirit
Fresh off his awesome 91st minute goal in the World Cup after another disallowed goal, Landon Donovan said to the ESPN reporter, “This team embodies what the American spirit is about. We had a goal disallowed the other night, We had another good goal disallowed tonight. But we just keep going. And I think that’s what people admire so much about Americans. And I’m damn...
Case Study: Selling a paid mobile web app...
I just made a large comment on Hacker News, in response to a post by Eric Meyer about App shopping and the potential for mobile web apps. I thought the comment warranted it’s own post as a quick case study in selling a mobile web app, so here it is.
In his post, Eric writes:
Except that’s only true because until now, nobody has launched an alternate store that offers web stack...
“6:52PM Walt: So last year we had a company called Siri, a search...”
– Walt Mossberg interviews Steve Jobs at D8.
Apple will launch a search engine sometime in 2010-2011. You heard it here first.