The iPhone App Store ranking algorithm has been reverse-engineered: "The formula is 8 times the sales of the current day + 5 times the sales on the 2 proceeding days + 2 times the sales on initial date."
Amazing article on alternatives to acceptance testing: "think of defects as coming from four sources: programmer errors, design errors, requirements errors, and systemic errors. When trying to eliminate defects, I look for practices that address these four causes."
The Android Marketplace has its first public success story; one swallow doesn't make a summer of course, but I'd put money on this being the start of a something big. Err in fact technically I think I *have* put money on that.
Stop delegating. I lean this way myself. I'm not sure it's as black-and-white as this article suggests and I don't think I get the balance right, but I liked the general thrust of it.
Interface innovation from Microsoft; I was surprised at how gorgeous I found this booklet-style table. It's nice to think that there's room for new form factors. I should've learned that from the DS...
Fantastic voiceover work on this Nokia article covering conceptual design. Feels like watching a 70s childrens TV programme :)
Werner Vogels of Amazon on working backwards: "Once we have gone through the process of creating the press release, faq, mockups, and user manuals, it is amazing how much clearer it is what you are planning to build"