Bits, not Atoms

“The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable."


Development Trends

  • The Power of Scarcity – Part 2

    In startups, teams are — by necessity — small. I’ve worked on bootstrapped development projects where the same five people wrote code, tested, created documentation, and even did ads. (Turns out software engineers don’t make for good marketers, though a sketched ad featuring cavemen discussing ERP was pretty funny…at least to us). Once a company… Continue reading

  • Adobe Air

    Ever since the Web moved from being a tool of academia to a platform for commerce and communication, companies have looked for ways to leverage its “access from anywhere” and “zero install” nature for applications. I’ve written about this before when the industry I then worked in was consumed by the hype over Web-based applications.… Continue reading