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I've worked for David for two years. I can honestly say he is the nicest person I've ever met. Genuinely kind and thoughtful, and wants the best for the site and the people that us…

Yes. If you're worried about someone else using your startpage, you can make it private in Settings. I'll tell you though, the startpages aren't indexed by any search engines, and …

E-mail addresses are for password recovery, unless you have a safe place for us to send our carrier pigeon to :)

Hey all. I'm the other dev on this site. We were actually pretty surprised to see users sharing their startpages on their blogs and such. At first we didn't really get it; I mean t…

My thought exactly. Who, of all the users on IE, has even heard of a different browser? And then of these users, they decide that IE is still better? Is this like some .001% that I…

Thinking Strategically is one of my favorites. It spends each chapter analyzing techniques of competition, trend, and innovation. It reads quite easily and offers outside examples …

oh yeah I forgot about the part where there was absolutely no conflict in any of the novels

It's essential that you complete Isaac Asimov's I, Robot for a thorough understanding of how badly things can get out of control.

What he's saying, is that beyond our tiny sub culture of internet nerds, the average person won't be leaving SMS any time soon. The mainstream market has started getting used to th…

You make a homepage (it's easy) with your bookmarks, and then you get notified on the homepage when a link has an update.

I run a homepage manager with my friend and we look at 2 very concrete statistics: signups and clicks (on the homepages). We wanted to see if we could increase our adoption rate, s…

There's Hollywood films and then there's 60-second Youtube spots. Both formats can reach a million people, easy.

Awesome, I love to see developers using some of their time for the small stuff like this. Let's just be glad it doesn't distribute independent music. Nice work, it looks really cle…

Who's to say that your personal criticism couldn't be compared to the same criticism many companies began receiving in the 90's when they moved the sale of their products to the in…

My personal favorite comes from designer Philippe Starck: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/197 Very inspiration for designers and engineers alike.

I think that if a friend really wanted to suggest a request to me, I'd rather see it in a more personal medium. Otherwise, why haven't I already thought to add them?

I agree. I think, like it's been said, that 37Signals is a special case. I believe in the field we all work in, it is wise to assume a graphic mockup as a step in the progress and …

I could maybe see this argument holding up a few years prior, but I think CS3 has had a remarkable influence on my workflow (compared to say, CS2). Having run the last 2 versions o…

Jeff Croft's writeup in response to a recent article by 37Signals' position against the visual mockup. Jeff cites that this may work for 37Signals because of their simple, establis…

eBay is still much more than an auctioning service. It's a lightweight platform for anyone-- store owner or housewife-- to sell absolutely anything. The structure itself is fine, i…

The reasoning behind the separation in these steps is for 2 reasons: To save time on both halves. That is, the designer is designing his/her piece without worry of the difficulty, …