From slashdot , posted by kdawson on Friday October 23 @01:01PM:

"On April 18, 2008, Apple Computer applied for a patent relating to an ‘invention’ that allows for showing advertisements within an operating system. The first named inventor on the patent application is none other than Steve Jobs. Read the rest of this entry >>

According to an October 12th AdAge.com article, the 2010 Census is expected to find that 309 million people live in the United States. But one person will be missing: the average American.  There is no more Joe Consumer.  There is no more clear culture lead.  There is, however, a huge opportunity for new media marketing. Read the rest of this entry >>

Difficult and impossible are not the same thing, though they’re often treated that way.  For instance, I was called to join a meeting because the lead engineer told the user interface architect something was impossible.  It wasn’t.  It was difficult.  The difference?  The engineer did not possess the knowledge required to commit to executing it, so he avoided it by calling it impossible.  This is a person that needs to succeed so much they’re willing to pass on potentially productive change.  The reason I was asked to join the meeting is because I know the difference between difficult and impossible. Read the rest of this entry >>

So there I was writing iPhone code when deja vu hit me.  Relatively slow processor, manually managing memory to decrease the overall footprint, relatively small harddrive, concern for data throughput.  I’ve been here before.  Hey, it’s the mid-90′s again and I’m sitting at my old Dell trying to write applications in C, only this time I have access to a lot of really cool technology.  So what would you have done in the mid-90′s to change the world that you can actually do today?

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