DISQUS

Man I wish. Are you ever in Toronto? FutureRuby is coming up here soon, looks like we'll have lots of awesome people coming up for that.

Interesting post. I find it hilarious that these huge entities think they're going to do something productive. Really what they're going to do is waste millions in time and money and inhibit intelligent people from really becoming good devs. They really don't get it do they?

We don't need them. They're big slow clunky entities that think they can get in this game. Seriously, you want to make an iPhone app? buy a book. Don't waste your time treading the murky waters of corporate education and stifling bureaucracy.

The tech scene in toronto is already awesome, full of bright young people going out on their own. And this scene is only awesome because of the hard work we put in every day.

Thanks for your thoughts, I'm definitely going to reference this article in the post that I feel I must write.

my thoughts on the Recession-Web exemplified:

1. Good content, no thanks to skittles ;)
2. If you're running the flash debugger while you're on the site you'll see it's riddled with errors. No biggie for the avg user but come on.
3. This experiment screams "my agency told me this is what people think is cool."

Oh well, i looked at it.

Jesse, right on.

Also, what happened to the creative marketing campaigns of era's long forgotten. We could learn a thing from JP Barnum. Hockenberry is being a baby and thinks he deserves the world, wrapped in a bow and served in a silver spoon.

You got it absolutely correct here, and you're not alone. Will Shipley, the iconic dev for delicious monster, has been talking the appstore as warehouse since the last Macworld. Here's my take:
1. Hockenberry should take responsibility for marketing his own ideas.
2. Hockenberry should respect ringtone apps. In some contexts, they blow twitterific out of the water, without having 1/50th of the usefulness. IE, is Twitterific going to be a hit at a party? um, yeah. No.
3. Hockenberry has obviously forgotten what it's like to be a really small dev shop busting ass working two full time jobs to support iphone application development. We're working twelve-hour days so we can squeeze in time to build our own apps. And our apps have to be cheap. We don't have a cushy office and a full dev team to play around with.

Anyway, thanks for the wonderful article. More power to you.

For all of Powell's eloquence and his acceptance of the need for "generational change," I would have still liked to see a more honest response to the WMD question. For someone to be so entangled in the Bush Doctrine might not be good for democrats. I guess the question comes down to this: Can the American public forgive Powell for his complicity in 2001, or will his endorsement of Obama serve to undermine the Bush-McCain connection that Obama's camp has been so meticulously crafting since this contest began?

This is pretty common on facebook for me, i wish there was a way to unsubscribe from those email conversations entirely. But you know what, it's sort of fun to yell at a captive audience.