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Meticulous
Perhaps one monitor is all you really need.
BenBrooks  work  focus  from instapaper
october 2011 by andrewspittle
Tablets are Empowering Users
"Tablets are not only a massive shift because of low-CPU powered computing and touch interfaces. They are shifting the balance of power back to the user.

Tablets are giving the user a viable choice for how they want to view any given set of data the screen will show. Tablets are actually more malleable to the task at hand."
design  iPad  Apple  BenBrooks 
september 2011 by andrewspittle
Digital Interruptions
Interruptions happen because we allow them to.
BenBrooks  lifestyle 
august 2011 by andrewspittle
The Cable Internet Racket
Or, how not to provide customer service and why monopolies are bad.
BenBrooks  Comcast  customerservice  from instapaper
june 2011 by andrewspittle
The ‘Mobile’ Web
Ben Brooks argues against stripped down mobile sites that give the user no option of seeing the main site.
design  mobile  BenBrooks  from instapaper
june 2011 by andrewspittle
PayPal’s Missed Opportunities
Ben Brooks breaks down where PayPal has gone wrong over the years.
PayPal  BenBrooks  software  finance  from instapaper
june 2011 by andrewspittle
Review: iA Writer for Mac
Ben Brooks reviews Writer for Mac. Sounds like a solid writing app.
writing  BenBrooks  blogging  from instapaper
june 2011 by andrewspittle
Just Works
What if means when something just works.
BenBrooks  software  design  from instapaper
may 2011 by andrewspittle
Like a Headless Chicken
Ben Brooks nails it in talking about what's going on at Twitter.
BenBrooks  Twitter  venturecapital  startups  software 
may 2011 by andrewspittle
Site Navigation
Ben Brooks changes his blog navigation as well.
BenBrooks  writing  design  blogging 
may 2011 by andrewspittle
The Myth of Profits
"I tend to believe the following about all private companies:

- Information reported by interested parties is unreliable.
- Companies that are still raising money are not profitable."
BenBrooks  Facebook  venturecapital  business 
may 2011 by andrewspittle
You Can’t Replace Email if You Require Email
Inter­est­ing post from Ben Brooks about how Twit­ter and Face­book are attempt­ing to replace email even as both ser­vices rely might­ily upon email to work.
email  BenBrooks  Facebook  Twitter 
may 2011 by andrewspittle
Why the 13″ Air Is Better Than the 13″ Pro
Ben Brooks writes about why the 13" MacBook Pro is no longer a smart choice in computing.
Apple  BenBrooks  design 
may 2011 by andrewspittle
A Successful Failure
Ben Brooks makes the case that Android may be successful in the near term but that doing so will sow the seeds of it's eventual failure.
BenBrooks  Android  Google  business 
april 2011 by andrewspittle
Fragility of Free
"The fragility of free is a catchy term that describes what happens when the free money runs out. Or — perhaps more accurately — when the investors/founders/venture capitalists run out of cash, or patience, or both."
business  software  BenBrooks  Twitter 
april 2011 by andrewspittle
The Droid is Dead
"“Droid is dead” — is basically what I am saying here.

I don’t mean that Verizon won’t ship or sell any more Droid phones, but they aren’t interested in wasting anymore money advertising the brand."
Verizon  Motorola  Droid  iPhone  BenBrooks 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
One Percent More
Ben Brooks follows up on his earlier post about Apple's subscription plans.
BenBrooks  Apple  software  business 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
Thirty Percent
Ben Brooks details his thoughts about Apple's new subscription plan for the App Store.
Apple  business  software  BenBrooks 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
The Stylus
A stylus is not all it's cracked up to be for Ben Brooks.
BenBrooks  iPad  design  Apple 
february 2011 by andrewspittle
Automattic Makes Premium Themes Available to 17 Million Wordpress.com Blogs
Interesting footnote from Ben Brooks. "I do realize that my personal blog is on Tumblr still. I also still like Tumblr, but I think it is not the platform you should consider if writing is your thing."
BenBrooks  Automattic  WordPress  design  business  code  Tumblr 
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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