The web’s lost opportunity to be on TV
Apple announced the new Apple TV yesterday. As many expected, it didn’t come with Safari. What was unexpected is that it doesn’t appear to have WebKit at all. The utility of WebKit for…
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What I’m watching for in the new Apple TV
We’re about an hour away from the Apple event where they will announce the new Apple TV. Here are the things I’m going to be watching for based on my time researching Smart TVs, game…
The feature phone era of TVs ends next week
Three years ago after writing Head First Mobile Web with Lyza, I was burnt out on mobile and wanted to do something different. So I decided to start researching the web on TVs. TVs…
Will someone do this on mobile?
A frequent question that product owners face is whether not someone will do a particular activity on a mobile device or not. In my experience, people often arrive at two answers based on context. When…
Project Management is BS: an inspirational meditation for modern PMs
This past week, I had the luxury of attending the Digital Project Management conference in Austin. If you are a project manager and you haven’t heard about this group of awesome digital PMs, you…
Own Your Process: Ending Agile Guilt
What process do you use for your projects? Agile? Waterfall? Scrum? Extreme? A little bit of everything? Join the club. I had the pleasure of spending some time Saturday with a number of talented colleagues…
Retooling
GitHub introduced a new text editor called Atom last week, and reactions (at least in my Twitter feed) seem divided between fervent desire and snide disregard. For every few people shamelessly begging for invites,…
A List Apart: Vexing Viewports
A quick, pre-holiday post to mention with excitement the publishing of “Vexing Viewports“, an article on A List Apart that I co-wrote with Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk), Stephanie…
How to handle software for small business employees in an app store world?
App stores have been great for consumers and developers. One-click purchasing is awesome. But as a small business owner, they cause us nothing but grief. In the boxed software world, I knew that if we…
Video: Essence of Content on the Web (Mobilism 2012)
Oh, I am excited! Video from my presentation at Mobilism in Amsterdam has been posted. I’m already excited about Mobilism for next year! In this presentation, “Cutting through the Crap: The Essence of…