• "Bypassing the VC with deferred revenue", or "charging up front" as some might say. The LoveFilm presentation at Geek'n'Rolla nicely and vividly demonstrated the impact of this on cashflow.
• How I failed as a Product Owner and the lessons I learned in the process; I'd like to see more published failure tails like this one.
• Thinking about project success and how it's defined. Hitting milestones and budgets isn't enough. It's almost as though you have to get the right design, and...
• 10 contracts for your next agile project; I really want us to play with the cringe-worthily named but interesting "money for nothing, change for free" model Jeff has written about.
• They made a film of Flatland! It looks slightly cheesy, but if there was ever an unfilmable book...
• Interesting piece on Nokia encouraging girls into IT with shadowing days;
• Frédéric Filloux has some really interesting observations about developer activity and mobile technologies: "Fluidity in the transaction process is critical", and a very interesting graph showing the uptick in sales that the launch of a free "lite" version can deliver.
• Charlie looks into the Nokia phone cache;
• Comparisons (and some pithy analogies) between the various app stores: "Apple is like a big-box retailer, with one-stop shopping and very competitive prices; BlackBerry is like a high-end boutique, with a brand-name selection but higher prices; and Android’s kitschiness is like a thrift store, where you never know what you are going to find, but it will likely be a bargain."
• Caring for your introvert: "I'm an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush."
• More commodity consumer kit reaches the military: "Apple's (AAPL) devices have a combination of wide uses and low cost that make it attractive handheld device to the modern soldier."