• Lessons learned at Dropbox and Xobni, going from zero to a million users;
• Nice sample of a clean, easy-to-read contract;
• 157 app stats you need to know about;
• Three reminders about platform businesses, very clear and concise warnings;
• How I feel about downloading apps, ho ho. Android only I presume.
• MeeGo are having a conference in Dublin this November. I hope to be there...
• iAd may not be cost effective for developers; I'm really interested in learning how the production costs compare to response rates for these ads. I just don't get how they can be competitive with low-effort text and banner ads, if you're measuring responses;
• Why Smartphone adoption may not be as big as you think, decoupling adoption from growth rates;
• SquareUp looks interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing it in the wild;
• The Manifesto for Half-Arsed Software Development: "That is, while the items on the left sound nice in theory, we’re an enterprise company, and there’s no way we’re letting go of the items on the right.". I think you could apply most of this to businesses other than large enterprises, mind...
• Management lessons I learned at Apple, I found this extremely interesting given how little I've read of how Cupertino do their stuff;
• Mediocre advertising can now be produced automatically. Well that's the ad industry fucked then.