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  • Nebulous Notes, my Dropbox text editor for the iPad/iPhone, is available now!
  • The greatest "great time to buy"
  • Dumber Mr. Markets
  • If in the future, everything's free, what will people pay for?
  • How do you incentivize long-term thinking?
  • How big will the iPad market become?
  • Sharing = Gifting. The killer app for microtransactions is social.
  • The iPad is anti-climactic when it comes to apps
  • Should you build a iPad-native app for your newspaper or magazine?
  • Google Buzz Idea: Aggregate Twitter @replies automatically
  • I'm Zappos-trained now. How my room became a perpetual fitting room.
  • Gmail Labs Idea: "Emailed Before"
  • New Rule: Restaurant websites shouldn't use flash
  • 3 What-Ifs to justify Apple's stock price
  • Is there something like "Dunbar's number" for social networks?
  • Dear social network designers. Instead of automatic friend feeding, do this...
  • A New Kind of Interface, a New Kind of World
  • The Cinema-equivalent of "going viral"
  • Backtest Fallacy
  • Elance vs. oDesk vs. Guru.com
  • Was there maybe a missed marketing opportunity with Avatar?
  • I wish we had a better metric than the "man-hour." How about measuring flow or energy required for a project?
  • Some advice to the product managers at Google regarding semi-private usability design
  • Opportunity: The majority of companies have more than 60% of their working capital tied up in accounts receivable
  • What's more important for success? Fear or desire?
  • What is good news and what is bad when it comes to the stock market?
  • If innovation leads to success, shouldn't the stock market reflect that?
  • Maybe this is not really "Evil," but it's the kind of evil that I imagined Google meant
  • Google stole all the talented tech trailblazers by treating their developers like kings
  • A little trick that I'd like the geniuses at Google or Facebook to figure out
  • If I Had a Tablet: Nine imaginary use-case stories for Apple's upcoming game-changer
  • To-do Lists: In what order should you do tasks?
  • You have to earn 2.5x as much to be as happy working for someone else as you would be working for yourself
  • Everything you need to know about making it as an entrepreneur in less than 150 words
  • What else can Google do to be less Evil?
  • Can we finally say it now: MySpace was a fad. Actually, more of a fad-wave.
  • If you don't know what phone to buy, then Google has already won.
  • The incomprehensibility of your new business idea is not a weakness. If anything, it's a strength.
  • If you do any sort of PR or promoting on the web, read this now
  • Photoshop's preferences should probably default to "pixels" instead of "inches" by now
  • What can we learn from Tumblr's growth in 2009?
  • Conspicuous Consumption 2.0: Why I think Blippy has a shot
  • How breaking my own "law" made it clear that Cloud Computing is the real deal
  • Marketing Strat: Do not give me a reason to Google for alternatives
  • Move where the puck is going to be: become a "corporate culture consultant"
  • Follow-up: A World Without Marketing
  • Move where the puck is going: Imagine a world with no marketing
  • Maybe persistence and creativity is futile in the face of genetic defects. cf: Barnes & Noble
  • Not so common sense: When users click on thumbnails, they intend to zoom
  • Purple Cow Tipping and other seductive marketing memes
  • Hello, future readers.