August 2010
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Apple TV Evolution
Way back in September 2006 Apple announced their innovative Apple TV device, which brought the iTunes-powered media experience to your HDTV. Since then, it’s seen a small amount of success, and a couple of spec bumps, but was never really the game-changer it could have been.
Recent speculation suggests that the device is getting a rethink and relaunch - perhaps even as soon as this...
snowman=☃
We’ve got a neat little Ruby on Rails project going in the office - early stages, but coming along nicely. Whilst idly browsing the site I notice this in my address bar:
Do you see the little snowman image there? My first thought was that this was some little developer easter egg, so I ran over to Shapeshed’s desk to let him know I’d found it. Turns out, he was as surprised as...
Apple Consultants Network
For some time, our US cousins have had the opportunity to be part of the ‘Apple Consultants Network’ - a program run by Apple that recognises the 3rd party support and consultancy services (like pebble.it) and provides them with greater access to sales tools, hardware purchasing, training and materials. As a UK-based company, this program had not been available to us, yet we soldiered...
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The keyboard computer
People used to look at iMacs and say “oh, so the computer is in screen?”
Well now, a very clever modder has mashed together MacBook Air parts, a Wireless Keyboard and a Magic Trackpad to create a keyboard computer!
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pebble.it-based team won EcoMo09 →
Last year, a number of the pebble.it dev team entered (and won!) a 24-hour hackathon, EcoMo09.
That was before this version of the blog existed, so I’m linking to another post on it for prosperity. Please check it out.
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The end-to-end experience
How we do things at pebble.it is always up for reevaluation. It’s important to ask questions like “where can we improve?”, “why did this happen?” and “how can we stop that happening again?”
Answers to these questions are often things that we can address. Learn, correct, evolve. But equally, sometimes we discover the answer is something we can’t fix...
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PC vs Mac: Microsoft's Perspective
Apple have been taking pot shots at Microsoft for years, and they’ve wasted no time on subtlety. Now it seems Microsoft have stepped up to the plate and fired some shots back with their new site ‘PC vs Mac’. The site compares the two platforms across 6 categories, and makes some bold statements in each. Now what sort of fan-boy Mac loving blog would this be if we didn’t rip...
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Unlikely Business Lessons
A very interesting audio podcast from The Economist on a few things that for profits can learn from not for profits.
In particular:
What is the company vision - make sure all are aligned
Feel what you do matters
Find what it is that separates you from the rest (the best, the only, the X)
Treat people as an asset
Align with a cause (if there is a choice between you and another, customers...
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Changing Times & Opportunities
Great article from Neil Perkin’s blog, Only Dead Fish, about the opportunities that the huge changes in media we are living through are bringing.
Example statistic: 2 billion video views per day on YouTube.
The opportunity is in the exploitation of data that is, or soon will be, available to us all.