Archive for January, 2007

thePlatform’s website is new and shiny!

Check out thePlatform’s new website. It’s clean and simple.

Can you tell what we do here at thePlatform? How does the design make you feel? Comments/suggestions welcome.

And remember, we’re hiring!

Where are all the Flip-smartphones in America? Or, Who is the target market for the iPhone?

Philip Greenspun, posted about the iPhone along with a billion other people. I tried adding a couple of comments that were deleted moderated, so I’m adding them here.

Where are the flip phones?

Basically all Japanese phones are flip-phones and it baffles me as to how American consumers are denied the simple interface of [...]

The iPhone is the Derek Zoolander of cell phones.

Derek Zoolander: Well I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking “wow, you’re ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career.” Matilda: [...]

101 Ways to Save Apple, Issue 5.06 | Jun 1997

Build a PDA for less than $250 that actually does something: a) cellular email b) 56-channel TV c) Internet phone. 101 Ways to Save Apple, Issue 5.06 | Jun 1997

That crazy wired… what were they thinking.

FavIcon.ico can be a bandwidth hog… if it’s 70K.

This is a good reason to remember that no everyone has a fast connection also.

I got an email from ORCSWEB, my most excellent hosting company (check them out) that I’d used over 230 GIGs of bandwidth for the month. Oy. First, I was happy that the site is doing well, then I was [...]