Archive for the 'Marketing' Category

Panic’s Lucky 13

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Panic’s co-founder Cabel Sasser just wrote a general round-up of changes at the venerable Mac software company. Lots to be jealous of. Ahem, inspired by. Cabel counts the 13 people — including new hires Neven Mrgan and Ned Holbrook — who make up the ranks of their development, design, and support staff. Everybody I’ve met [...]

Random Reality

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

If you’re a software developer or web-savvy businessperson, you’ve probably heard of 37 Signals’s famous book, Getting Real, which aims to pass on some of the company’s wisdom about how to build and market relatively simple end-user applications. The book is aimed primarily at developers of web applications, expected considering the web is 37 Signals’s [...]

Microsoft Ads Are Genius

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Lately we’ve been treated to the introduction of a couple new ads from Microsoft, featuring Jerry Seinfeld: Windows Ads The prevailing thoughts on the internet seem to be that these ads are ridiculous, that they make no salient point, that they are barely funny, and that they are a pathetic, misguided attempt by Microsoft to [...]

Threadless: The Store Is The Product

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

My wife and I happened to be in Chicago on Monday, September 10, when we accidentally stumbled upon the new Threadless retail store just hours after it had first opened its doors. Threadless has become relatively well-known on the web, for its simple business concept of accepting contributed t-shirt designs, picking the best of the [...]