Ade in Business

This is a duplicate of a post I wrote at our new Recursive Function Blog. If you’d like to comment, please do so there.
I enjoyed the 37signals book and agree with a lot of their philosophy, but was baffled by today’s article, You don’t need a product road map.
The article makes a lot of [...]

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When I first saw Twitter I thought it was a complete waste of time, found it technologically unimpressive, and was positive it had no viability as a “real” business.
I’m still not completely convinced otherwise, but am starting to see the appeal.
I think my initial skepticism was largely founded on the way Twitter had been explained [...]

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I wanted one when they were announced, but had tempered my enthusiasm in the 6 months since — it’s expensive, and was yet to be seen if the product would be as revolutionary as was preached.
But after reading the generally positive reviews, getting a chance to play with one first-hand, and realizing that my T-Mobile [...]

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I was recently searching the iTunes store and got this error message:

It bothered me more than most error messages do. I knew my network settings were correct and my connection was active. If they weren’t, I wouldn’t have been able to get to the iTunes store homepage where I initiated the search.
The message smelled [...]

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I’ve written before about using a Virtual PC image to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine. The old image was set to expire on April 1st, but Microsoft has released another image that will last until July 23rd.
I’m also happy about this because I recently installed Windows updates within the old image [...]

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