From: Cameron Von Awzzomsaws To: All contacts Date: Oct. 15, 2012 Subject: An Open Letter to My Social Network Upon the Rejection of My SXSW Panel Dear "Friend": A little while ago, I took time out of my busy schedule to alert you to the fact that I'd submitted a panel for SXSW Interactive 2013. I…

# Let’s reconsider our “users” us·er /ˈyo͞ozər/ Noun 1. A person who uses or operates something, esp. a computer or other machine. 2. A person who takes illegal drugs; a drug user. Synonyms consumer During a Square Board meeting, our newest Director Howard Schultz, pulled me aside and asked a simple…

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Ryan Hutto often depends on his wife, Shannon, for phone queries. “I kind of feel like his personal assistant,” she said. Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Rachel Crosby speaks about her BlackBerry phone the way someone might speak of an embarrassing relative. “I’m ashamed of it,” said Ms.…

Jeff Bezos stopped by our office yesterday and spent about 90 minutes with us talking product strategy. Before he left, he spent about 45 minutes taking general Q&A from everyone at the office. During one of his answers, he shared an enlightened observation about people who are “right a lot”. He…

Above: Eileen Burbidge speaking at a conference There’s nothing better than a true story, well told – and Eileen Burbidge’s first public talk about her experiences as the third employee at Skype definitely made that definition. Appearing late on Friday at IdeaLab! 2012 , Burbidge – now a partner at…

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“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and containing fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Eric Picard, CEO at Rare Crowds . My friend and colleague Todd Herman ( LinkedIn ) once wrote a strategy paper about video content when we…

The following post is a guestpost by Walter Chen, founder of a unique new project management tool IDoneThis . More about Walter at the bottom of the post. So, here is the thing right at the start: I’ve always been uncomfortable with the traditional ideal of the professional — cool, collected, and…

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Here’s some of my super-secret winning strategies from fifteen years of building startups. Stay in stealth mode until the last minute. The last thing any startup needs is people finding out about it. You can get attention later — that’s not difficult. You don’t need the distraction of customers…

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I've been thinking about this a lot lately and it's come up in so many conversations I've had about anything that even remotely sounds like a freemium model. At WooThemes, we have quite a few free products which is some kind of freemium incarnation: the free products help us with distribution, but…

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New York Times technology writer Nick Bilton has published a profile of Twitter CEO Dick Costolo , and the challenges the company is facing as it tries to transform itself from a real-time information network into an advertising-driven media entity . But one of the interesting things about the piece…

As with most things, the best way to get better at writing is through practice. Whether it is part of your job or just something to do in your free time, Buffer's Joel Gascoigne offers tips to make writing part of your routine. I've written over 50 articles on [my] blog over the last two years, and…

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Much of the tension in product development and interface design comes from trying to balance the obvious, the easy, and the possible. Figuring out which things go in which bucket is critical to fully understanding how to make something useful. Shouldn’t everything be obvious? Unless you’re making a…

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Cosmo is huge — 6 foot 7 and 220 pounds the last time he was weighed, at a detention facility in Long Beach, California on June 26. And yet he’s getting bigger, because Cosmo — also known as Cosmo the God , the social-engineering mastermind who weaseled his way past security systems at Amazon,…

No question about it: This is a great time for Apple. The stock is up 63 percent so far this year – triple the Nasdaq's rise - and several analysts expect it to top $1,000 a share by next year. By one count, the iPad commands a 70 percent share of the tablet market, and the iPhone 5, widely expected…

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The most important factor in web application design is responsiveness . And the first step toward responsiveness is speed. But speed within a web application is complicated. Our strategy for keeping GitHub fast begins with powerful internal tools that expose and explain performance metrics. With…

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