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How I screwed up my first business (model) | Martin Grüner's blog

Founded at the age of 16, my first company/startup lived for 3 years and slowly died in the end. That's how I screwed it up.

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On alternative Android app stores | Martin Grüners blog

Overview of alternative Markets for Android platform based on real world application example. 

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2011/12/jargon.md at master from raganwald/homoiconic - GitHub

homoiconic - An experiment in publishing code and words about code on a small scale.

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The first HTML5 radiology viewer approved by the FDA, review of Vue Motion Medical Image Viewer

We do an in-depth review of the Vue Motion Medical Viewer, testing it on multiple devices - and we're impressed.

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We've Enabled File Sharing On Your iPhone! - Kicksend Blog

Sharing files form iPhone finally made easy.

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Why Twitter Engineers And Execs Keep Quitting – One Insider's Explanation

These are Twitter's cultural and structural flaws.

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yongfook - Design is Horseshit!

Design is Horseshit! In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design and I am...

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TechCrunch | Jotly Lives! Parody App Goes Live In iTunes

You remember Jotly, right? The hilarious and absurd spoof of our mobile/local/social app obsession? To refresh your memory, Jotly's humor was so on target, people wondered if creator Alex Cornell (founder of Nosh) was actually making fun of Kevin Ros

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When Do You Throw in the Towel On Your Struggling Project? | Vinicius Vacanti

One of the hardest decisions you have to make, as an entrepreneur, is deciding when to give up on your current struggling project.

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Underground Industry Aims to Dupe Social Media Users - Technology Review

Paying people to influence discussions in social media is big business in China and the U.S.

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Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels

Record labels are the monopoly to end all monopolies. And as Michael Robertson, founder of MP3.com, explains, their over-the-top demands of music subscription services quash innovation, as well as any dreams of profitability. Here’s what those record

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Users Know: STFU About What Women Want

In a recent post on TechCrunch, Penelope Trunk tells us (again) that most women don’t want to do startups. First, I’d like to extend that to Asians, African Americans, Gays, and Latinos. Oh, and white men. Most of them don’t want to do startups..

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On the importance of daily backups - what happened to jQuerys plugins site

JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup one year old

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Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it

You have probably heard about the continual struggle between Apple and Samsung over similarities in their designs. Apple is suing Samsung and asking the courts to block the sale of the Galaxy Tab in many countries (and succeeding).

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Google Circles and Path 2.0: How good UI design cannot fix a broken solution

Google Circles and the new Path showcase some great interaction design, but the product ideas might be inherently flawed.

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Google Android: The Accidental Empire

What Google has done with Android is amazing. The mobile operating system is now 44% of the smartphone market and its rise, along with iOS, has contributed to the utter destruction of both RIM and Nokia.

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HTML5 2D gaming performance analysis - Scirra.com

The performance of various 2D game renderers is analysed: Canvas 2D vs. WebGL vs. C++/DirectX.

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Be a Paranoid Pessimistic Programmer | GrokCode

Cultivating a healthy paranoia and a heavily pessimistic attitude is the path to becoming a better programmer, because those traits prevent bugs.

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I Had Downtime Today. Here’s What I’m Doing About It. | Kalzumeus Software

This morning I woke up to an email from a paying customer saying that they tried to print cards but couldn’t. Specifically, they said that they were able to use the Print Preview feature, but that using the actual print button, quote, “caused the ser

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Apache considered harmful

Apache was founded about 12 years ago, a time when companies were still very afraid of open source and many people in the open source community were very afraid of companies. The world hasn't changed that tremendously, big companies still use an open

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