Double Fine, Kickstarter, and a Genre I Missed More Than I Realized
Double Fine's Kickstarter for a new Tim Schafer adventure game blew past its goal in eight hours, and I can't stop refreshing the pledge count.
Two Million Dollars for a Point-and-Click Game
Double Fine's Kickstarter for a new point-and-click adventure game blew past its $400k goal in eight hours and hasn't stopped climbing since.
Path Got Caught Reading Your Address Book
Path got caught quietly uploading users' entire iPhone address books, and it turns out the app permission system never really covered this case in the first place.
Super Bowl as Tech Demo
Notes on the Super Bowl as a tech event: Twitter's tweets-per-second record, GoDaddy's QR code ad that didnt work for me, and the M.I.A. moment nobody saw coming.
Reading Facebook's S-1 So You Don't Have To
Facebook's IPO filing dropped a few days ago and I read the whole thing. Some thoughts on the numbers, the ownership structure, and why tonight's Super Bowl feels connected to all of it.
Reading Facebook's S-1 Instead of Doing Actual Work
Facebook filed its S-1 with the SEC on Wednesday and I spent the week reading it instead of working. Thoughts on the numbers, Zuckerberg's "Hacker Way" letter, and what the dual-class stock setup actually means.
Facebook Files, and Now We Have Actual Numbers
Facebook filed its S-1 this week and the actual numbers are out: 845 million users, $3.71 billion in revenue, and a filing that finally answers questions we've all been guessing at for years.
Facebook Files
Facebook filed its S-1 yesterday and the internet lost its mind over the numbers. Some thoughts on the filing, the SOPA blackout two weeks back, and why going public might change more than people expect.
Slow Start, Wild Finish: My January in Review
A look back at a January that started dead quiet and ended with CES, the SOPA blackout, the Megaupload takedown, and Apple's record earnings all crammed into ten wild days.
A Few Loose Ends from January
A grab bag of smaller stories from the last few weeks: ultrabooks everywhere at CES, Apple's absurd iPhone numbers, the Megaupload/Anonymous fallout, and Carrier IQ still going nowhere.
Optimizing Images for the Web (So Your Site Doesn't Take Forever to Load)
A practical rundown of picking the right image format, actually compressing your files, and other basic tricks to keep your page weight down for visitors still on slow connections.
My Little Morning Digest Script
I built a janky little Python script that emails me a morning news digest instead of relying on Google Reader, and three weeks in it's mostly working, minus some cron and time zone headaches.