The Simpsons and “Mapple”
Last night’s episode of The Simpsons made some pretty funny pokes at Apple, or as they’re referred to in the episode, "Mapple": In three minutes’ worth of opening sequence, they manage to get in a fair...
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Microsoft Canada and OCAD Announce a Surface Team-Up (or: OCAD Gets a Big-Ass...
This morning at the Mesh 2009 Conference, Microsoft’s Mark Relph (my boss’ boss) and OCAD President Sara Diamond announced a Microsoft/OCAD partnership. Microsoft will provide OCAD with a Surface...
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MIX10 Web/UX Conference: March 15 – 17 in Las Vegas
I’m going to be at Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, which takes place from Monday, March 15th through Wednesday, March 17th at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, where I’ll be catching sessions and...
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Counting Down to Seven: Charlie Kindel and the Windows Phone 7 Team’s Focus
Time for another installment of Counting Down to Seven, a series of articles about mobile app development that I’m writing as we count down the days to MIX10, when we reveal more about the...
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Counting Down to Seven: 7 Rules for Your Mobile Strategy
Welcome to another installment of Counting Down to Seven, a series of articles about mobile app development that I’m writing as we count down the days to MIX10, when we reveal more about the...
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If You Speak Database, Science Needs Your Brain!
If you’re in the Greater Toronto Area, have basic knowledge of database queries and want to help a grad student with a research project, Zuzel Vera Pacheco, one of Greg Wilson’s students at...
View ArticleScott “UnMarketing” Stratten: “First Name and Email are Enough” and Other...
Last night at a gathering of Toronto digital marketing and social media types held by TheBizMedia – I’m not sure I qualified for an invite, but hey, free beer! – Scott Stratten, president of...
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“I’m Comic Sans, Asshole!”
That most hated of typefaces, Comic Sans, gets anthropomorphized and bad-assified in Mike Lacher’s piece for McSweeney’s titled, (in)appropriately enough, I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. This article also...
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Ten Things You Need to Know About Design
What you see above is a slide from Jason Putorti’s slide deck titled 10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design. Don’t let the title throw you off: everything in the presentation is even more important...
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Perspectives on Clojure and F#
Don’t have Silverlight? You can download it here or download the video in MP4, MP3, WMA, WMV, WMV (High) and Zune formats. Here’s a Channel 9 video shot at Emerging Languages Camp 2010, the first...
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THIS is How You Do It: The USGA Golf Score App for Windows Phone 7
One of the tricky things about helping developers build for a platform that has yet to be released is that it’s a tabula rasa. There’s no history, which is both blessing and curse: we developers get...
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The New Windows Phone 7 Ads and a Big Hint for Your App Designs
The Ads Rather than tell you how great-looking and clever the new ads for Windows Phone 7 are, I thought I’d show them instead. Here’s the first one, which features Donovan’s song, Season of the Witch:...
View ArticleFuture Visions
Welcome Daring Fireball readers! In case you were wondering if I’ve prepared a response to the article titled The Types of Companies that Publish Future Concept Videos, take a look here. Pictured above...
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Pixel Union’s Beautiful Shopify Themes
“Pixel Union” is synonymous with “beautiful Tumblr themes”. Go take a look at their site and try out the demos of themes like Sticks and Stones with its hand-drawn charm, the retro-urban New Yorker...
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