The iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0 are causing quite a resurgence towards the iPhone platform — new users and previous iPhone users alike are both feeling like they have a brand new device in front of them. The App Store allows people to download desktop-class applications directly to their phone and it’s amazing. However Read more »
About Mike Rundle
Getting Smart About Taking Blogging Advice
Aug. 11, 2008
There are hundreds of blogs out there that are writing entries solely on how to be a better blogger. Many of these authors aspire to become rich and successful simply because they are writing about how to become rich and successful, which has always been a cart-and-horse problem to me. When your blog is just Read more »
My 5 CSS Tips
Jul. 8, 2008
After reading “5 Steps To CSS Heaven” over at pingmag.jp, and disagreeing with some of what was said I thought that writing this would be appropriate. I’ve been writing CSS professionally now for about 2.5 years so here are 5 quick tips that help me out in my day to day work. I wouldn’t call Read more »
Powerset Launches With Technology No One Needs
Jun. 4, 2008
Powerset has launched (Powerset.com) and it unveils natural language search capabilities to find answers on Wikipedia, the first dataset that they’ve indexed. Instead of typing things like “Google acquisitions” into, well, Google, you’d type in “who did Google acquire” into Powerset and get back your results. Wait, what? How is that useful? Before people get Read more »
The Stupidest Idea Ever Was Writing This Article
May. 2, 2008
When articles like this creep up you know it’s a slow news day. Or maybe that’s just the type of crap the San Jose Mercury News likes to write when no Valley-area companies are getting bought for billions at the moment. “As managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki funded all the really smart Read more »
The iPhone Is Inevitable, Give It A Try
Mar. 24, 2008
Matt Asay just wrote an article about how his Blackberry recently died and he picked up an iPhone after quickly comparing it to the latest RIM offering. “My reason was simple: I needed something that would sync consistently with my Mac. My Blackberry-to-Mac sync has been hit or miss for the past year (though I’ve Read more »
My Data Is My Memory
Mar. 21, 2008
One barometer for being in the web game for too long is when one can remember a blog entry Jason Fried wrote in August 2005 that relates exactly to what one is currently writing about. The entry to which I am referring was an idea the 37s crew had about information and why you should Read more »
Pre-Launch Blogs
Mar. 6, 2008
When preparing to launch a website in the future an organization/individual has two likely choices. They might decide to not put anything up on the domain they plan on launching and only announce the site once their is an actual site to show. On the other hand they could put a placeholder page (splash page) Read more »
Who Wants A Piece of Yahoo?
Feb. 4, 2008
After Microsoft’s unsolicited bid for Yahoo last week, it seems everyone has their theories about what is actually going to happen. Will Yahoo accept the offer and piss-off most of their employees? Will they hold up their middle finger and realize that they need to get their act together? The only thing we know so Read more »
How To Identify Bad Web 2.0 Design
Feb. 1, 2008
You’ve got your web 2.0 interface design checklist, 10 things that aren’t web 2.0, current styles in good web design (thanks for 9rules link Ben!), and now I bring you ways to identify *bad* web 2.0 design. We’ve all seen it, and now here are some quick ways to figure out if a web 2.0 Read more »
Startups And The Recession
Jan. 22, 2008
There’s no doubt in my mind that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession. The Federal Reserve just cut rates — again — down to 3.50%. This, coupled with oil’s rising prices, the fall of the value of the dollar, the rise in inflation, and the credit lending problems are all pointing to a Read more »
Skip Prestige, Do It For The Fun
Jan. 17, 2008
I do things very differently from a lot of my friends in the design consulting profession. Everybody seems to be looking for the big client, the big money, or the well-known website, but I skip all of those and concentrate on projects I know are interesting and fun to work on. I immediately turn down Read more »
Apple Pays Off Nick From ThinkSecret
Dec. 21, 2007
After a long and tumultuous struggle between Nick from Think Secret and Apple, they’ve resolved their issues and Think Secret will be publishing no longer. This is especially interesting to me because I’ve been a reader of Think Secret for many years, essentially since the site started, and followed the lawsuit from its genesis to Read more »
Reputation Management
Dec. 20, 2007
Scenario: Translucent, Inc. had an image problem. They wanted their customers to understand what they stood for, but were unable to communicate their values effectively. At one point a major glitch occurred in their best selling product and it took months for the PR manager to set things straight.
Google To Expand Its Wireless Plans?
Nov. 12, 2007
It’s astounding to me to think about Google and then
