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by joao 18y ago
Apple also bought, what was the basis of, Final Cut from Macromedia when the product was being developed to be a competitor to Premiere, but Macromedia management decided not to pursue that segment and it was sold to Apple.
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by joao 18y ago
It isn't that Apple has better designers or programmers, but they have a culture that thrives on quality, innovation and just plain building better products than the competition. Here's a great post on that: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blo
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by joao 18y ago
I'm still in University taking a design degree, and most of the students, who want to get started on building websites, don't ask the teachers to learn HTML or any other languages — instead they ask: 'Can you teach Dreamweaver?' The same ha
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by joao 18y ago
But for one successful project that he mentions (Dropsend) there are 2 projects of his that have 'failed': - the webapp Amigo -- https://myaccount.heyamigo.net/serviceDown.html -- that he even marketed starting a blog about its build and
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by joao 18y ago
If you can't, for any reason, convert to FLV and put up a Flash player, upload the screencasts to Vimeo ( http://vimeo.com ), skin the player and embedde it on your site - you'll get better quality and will look more professional than a You
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by joao 18y ago
When measuring the value of the feature, you have to ask if the feature would have been added if Michael Arrington wasn't an investor in Seesmic. On a blog with the number of comments as TechCrunch posts have, video-comments aren't useful,
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by joao 18y ago
One can ban Valleywag from Hacker News, but one can't ban Valleywag-style articles such as this. Shameless hit job.
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by joao 19y ago
"We are talking about this service at this early stage because we believe this will help many of our EC2 customers with setting their development priorities for this year." translation: "Contrary to what we usually do, we decided to announc
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by joao 19y ago
It's weird, because I created an identifier with 4 letters and it worked, but only after my first choice identifier, also with 4 letters, didn't work and it said it wasn't avaiable.
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by joao 19y ago
I'm no sure why this was a 'secret' to Alley insider or to anyone that bother to look at the sites that Connected Ventures/IAC (Collegehumor, Busted Tees and Vimeo parent company) has. Obviously Busted Tees is the one who makes them more mo
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by joao 19y ago
On a trivia note, as we're on Y News: Zed Shaw (from Rails Is a Getho rant fame - http://zedshaw.com ) works at Bear Stearns and they have lots of RoR projects over there.
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by joao 19y ago
Their host is in France (gandi.net), and it's a project by Alex ( http://al3x.net ) who works on Twitter.
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Freedom of choice, and how entrepreneurs relate to it(caterina.net)
5 points by joao 20y ago|0 comments