Fear. It’s what fuels entrepreneurs (Elon Musk). So many know what it means to be on the verge of bankruptcy (Richard Branson in 1992). This is the music that fuels The Will to make change happen. It tells you to face your fear…and tell it to fuck itself. Yeah, it says fuck. It speaks to [...]
Read more...The iPhone was the perfect product for its time. In 2007, we didn’t need a stylus. The tech world had shifted and we were learning to swipe, pinch and tap with our fingers. However, we need one now. I’ve been told it’s borderline rude to take notes on my iPhone because it requires breaking eye [...]
Read more...A friend and I met at a coffee shop and were talking about how great it would be to have a single site that would mash up all the news we needed to see to do our jobs well (we’re both iphone developers). Buzzin’ on caffeine, I said “I wonder if iphonedevelopers.com is available.” “No [...]
Read more...This is the real, purely honest portrayal of how it feels to be a startup CEO. It is poetry and a balm for those living… The Struggle The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place. The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you [...]
Read more...One of our projects at Agile Poet, //shameless plug// the top Austin iphone developers firm //end shameless plug// uses this stuff. It took us a while to gather all the carrier info. It’s all out there but it’s not at all straightforward to grab it all. If you have corrections or additions, please add a [...]
Read more...It seems popular to comment on how Google can only execute on search. That’s not technically correct, even though this article is about how they misstepped with Google Payments. Google has been successful on a massive scale with Gmail, Android, advertising (Adsense, Adwords, AdMob), lots of other businesses. What people really mean is “how can [...]
Read more...This below is a direct quote from the official WordPress blog. If there is someone you can trust on this issue, it’s the staff at WordPress. WordPress is free software given away just so that people, any people regardless of economic status, can have a great blogging tool. There is nothing in this for them [...]
Read more...A friend once told me, when you say, “I was so bored this weekend” you’re stating that you find the entire universe – in all its mystery, in all its explosive beauty, in all its fractal complexity – that the entire universe bores you. Saying “I’m bored” suggests you’ve in fact seen and thought of [...]
Read more...You’d think setting up a MCC account would be Google simple right? An MCC account is technically a “My Client Center” account which Google provides to organizations that manage multiple Google Adwords accounts – and it is not simple to register one of these accounts for some reason. I just spent over an hour attempting [...]
Read more...If you’ve seen the recent film Contagion or stayed at all up-to-date on AIDS research, you’ve noticed that we treat viruses as if they are intelligent and even give different viruses (HIV) more respect than we do others (the “common cold). Each virus has it’s own personality and adaptive IQ. Some are extremely “intelligent” in [...]
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Name: Joshua McClure
Location: Austin, TX
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