Daily Archive for April 17th, 2007

Who Didn’t See This Coming?

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on April 17, 2007
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Look, Ma! It’s Presentations

Which brings me to my point: In the case of Google (who has the cash flow, the server farms, the super-coding monkeys) and various other Internet giants, building the most obvious of web apps is okay. I mean, this actually supplements their grand vision of taking over the wo… er… nevermind.

But for the rest of us and the VC-wanting start-ups: Wake up.

It’s true, though: An idea is never something completely new. It’s always either a mixture or a better version (or both) of preexisting ideas.

But really… “mashup” startups are just as annoying as link-stealing blogs. Seriously. Enough.

Apple’s Taking a Beating on the Markets…

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on April 17, 2007
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Apple released a statement on the 12th (and in a few weeks, this is going to be the wrong link), with my commentary, as much as I can remember having on that day:

iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is.

Yes, Mr. Jobs. We want to give you money! We knew June. Of course, a nice rebate would be good.

[Sidenote: By the way, I'm most likely not going to get one. Why? Two reasons: Programmability and Power.]

However,

I don’t likes the looks of thissss.

iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned.

“We screwed up. But you still love us, right?”

Of course, Mr. Jobs. We love you. Here, have some more money. When’s Leopard coming out so I know to save up my $150?

While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October.

October? Wasn’t the original date Spring 2007? What, is Apple pulling a Vista?

We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]

But of course, had I known this announcement would be made the day after I started my IRA Roth… if I knew about Leopard missing the already pushed back deadline… if I knew the market would look like this for the week to follow:

APPL

Blah.

This post made by an ex-Apple employee definitely sums up the possible reason as to why… things are becoming shaky, just a tiny bit.

Category Tweaking

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jk
on April 17, 2007
in Project Ideas, Site News and User Interface & Design
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I took an hour trying to tweak the categories on my site. This is how I’m taking my break today. Nerdy, no?

Realization

I realized my “Industry Commentary” category was mostly about content and media. I mean, seriously… what was I thinking when I labeled that category… half of my stuff on this blog should be commentary, anyway.

Added a “Gadgets” category. I know I’m going to be needing it…

Removed “Blogging and Writing”. I wanted to post on things about how to write essays and little grammatical things I picked up along the way… but seriously, me? Write? Please.

I started adding descriptions to every single one of my categories. It’ll help me keep on top of what goes where… and when I need to start renaming/splicing/merging categories.

I swear, there was a time when I was stressing how I needed to lay out the foundation for every single category I would cover on the blog. What a waste of time that was.

But I think there should be a tool… with a really nice UI that can help me with recategorizing and tagging of multiple posts in Wordpress. I’ll get searching on that. Or better yet… it’s… another project idea?

Technorati 750K

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jk
on April 17, 2007
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Whoo hoo! Broke it! Huzzah!

Alas… Google ranking has fallen again to 3 (2 for yahoo). I think joshkim.com is suffering from some spam bot attacks… but we won’t go into that.

Just wanted to share. Now go back to the rest of your day.