We made a mistake. Over the last couple of days users brought to light an issue concerning how we handle your personal information on Path, specifically the transmission and storage of your phone contacts.
As our mission is to build the world’s first personal network, a trusted place for you to…
The importance of a clear privacy policy and transparency about your users’ data
“[Apple is] going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.”
- Tim Cook in his first email to Apple employees as Apple’s new CEO sent August 25, 2011
“The path [Sony] must take is clear: to drive the…
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab (and other recent iPad-envy-tablets) “follow the natural progression of design” in the same way that laptop keyboards “followed the natural progression of design” after the “chiclet” MacBook keyboards were released.
I’d just like you to do one simple test. Go into an AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint store and set out a few Android models along with an iPhone and maybe a couple “none of the above” smartphones they sell. One and only one of those phones is going to be entirely free of the carrier logo. Don’t be under the illusion that’s merely an aesthetic issue.
I’ve always thought carrier logos all over my device were tasteless since my first phone in 2004.
(Source: parislemon)
“I wonder if it remembers me.”
These are very cool.
God. I am getting so fed up with Google. This is this morning’s comparison. I experience this at least once a day now for a variety of things.
I may not be done with Google yet, but I can see the day I will be on the horizon, and I am looking forward to it.
It’s a different problem than Google is trying to solve, but this is poignant.
“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told them. “It looks too editorialized. Google products are machine-driven. They’re created by machines. And that is what makes us powerful. That’s what makes our products great.”
Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
do you have a contract written up as an agreement for payments upon completing a custom work?
I’ve been screwed out of money a countless number of times with people giving me “half payments” and then falling off the face of the earth.
I’ve read that a lot of freelancers do make contracts and the customers have to sign them before any work is done but I was just wondering if this is practical….advice?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
(Source: iamthewoodpecker)
