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Daring Fireball: Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
Gruber has an insightful piece on Microsoft’s position in the market. There’s no debating it anymore: Microsoft is irrelevant (at least in the PC world — it still has plenty of relevance in video games, for example). Sure, they’re still selling a bazillion copies of Windows every year, but they’re lost any semblance of the mindshare they once had. No one believe Windows PCs are better than Macs, anymore. Some still buy them, because they’re cheaper, but no one argues that they’re better. And when everyone in the world believes Apple makes a better product, the difference in price is much, much easier for people to swallow. And even though Microsoft still sells plenty of Windows every year, they’ve just reported quarterly results which revenue fell $1 billion short of projections and declined 17 percent year-over-year. So even the argument that they’re still relevant because they being in so much cash is falling apart. No ones cares anymore. No one.
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Nobu and Woo
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Me and Jay
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Nobu and Woo
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Nobu and Woo
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Nobu and Jay
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Jay
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Karianne
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Alix
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Me and Nobu
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Nobu, so beautiful!
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Kate
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Jon
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Matthew
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Seafair Pirates!
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Jay and Woo
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Chris and Jon
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Nobu and Me
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Buckets of Malibu? YESPLS!
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Me and Nobu
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Sarah and Keith…hah!
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Me and Nobu
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CSS Prism, a CSS color inspector, by Ryan Berg
Ryan’s little CSS toy is pretty awesome. Check it out.
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Nobu at Alki
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PHILA
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Anil Dash: The Pushbutton Web: Realtime Becomes Real
Anil has some really smart thoughts about what could be described as a “decentralized Twitter” — the ability to send web-scale messages without relying on a singe party or company (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, etc.). There are some brilliant minds behind this stuff, and if it can be packaged together in a way that provides a good user experience, it could quickly become the biggest threat to Facebook yet.
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An Apology from Amazon
In four short sentences, Jeff Bezos shows why he is probably the most effective C-level exec of our time. Seriously, can you imagine most other CEOs offering this kind of hnest, transparent, and straightforward apology? Never. Way to go, Amazon.
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DelveUI New York: Help me plan my talk in exchange for free tickets!
As I mentioned here before, I’ll be speaking in New York in a couple of weeks at DelveUI, a two-day event filled with sessions from some of the best UI designers on the planet, including Lou Rosenfeld, Jina Bolton, Scott Jehl, Andrew Maier, Jamey Kosoy, Jason Santa Maria, Ryan Stewart, Theresa Neil, Robert Hoekman, Joshua Porter, Anders Ramsay, and Todd Zaki Warfel. I think this is going to be a really, really great event.
My talk at the event will be about one of my favorite topics: web typography, specifically as it relates to CSS, and hopefully with plenty of new hotness from CSS3 thrown in. I’ve got the talk pretty well-prepared already, but I want to hear what it is you all would like to see addressed in a talk of this nature. So much so, in fact, that I’ve convinced the Delve crew to let me give 10 jeffcroft.com readers free registration for the event in exchange for your ideas. And if you’re too late to get one of the free registrations, I may still be able to hook you up with a juicy discount.
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Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
Terrific piece about the difference between a manager’s schedule and a maker’s schedule (i.e. a designer, programmer, writer, etc.). I find this so true, personally. One hour-long meeting really does pretty much blow me up for at least a half-day. Managers, take note.
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Rainier from Lake Washington
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WA-520
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Dan
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Downtown Bellevue
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This is how you landscape in Bellevue, apparently.
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Mike D.
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Boats are so 2008. Get a seaplane!
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Dan
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Jump!
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Capitan Mike
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DIGITALKITCHEN’s Shark Week ads
I really hate how Discovery always plays up the shark attack angle with their Shark Week promos, instead of conservation, understanding, and admiration for these magnificent creatures. That having been said, these commercials are brilliantly executed. They’re downright terrifying.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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