I like very much this start screen. Maybe this sounds silly, but that is an excellent start.
I hope soon to be able to dig more and see how the things behind it work.

very interesting service. Will follow its development.

"Few of our own failures are fatal," economist and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford writes in his new book, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure. This may be true, but we certainly don't act like it. When our mistakes stare us in the face, we often find it so upsetting that we miss out on the primary benefit of failing (yes, benefit): the chance to get over our egos and come back with a stronger, smarter approach.

According to Adapt, "success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right first time."

This sounds so self evident and yet, it is so hard to act this way.

What have you tried today and, more importantly, what did you fail at today?

Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple

Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board

This morning I was wondering whether I should visit techmeme.com for a quick glance at the tech news from the US. I expected nothing big.
Well, I was wrong.

(Reuters) - Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower-priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.

Well, I would consider it if the price was right.
I wonder how low Apple could go with it. Halving the flash memory configuration might not have a sufficient impact on the bill of materials to make the device go to mass market pricing.

comScore’s July traffic numbers are out and similar to June’s findings, Facebook and Twitter both saw record traffic in terms of U.S. unique visitors in the month. In July, Facebook saw a whopping 162 million unique visitors, compared to 160.8 million unique vistors in June, and 157.2 million uniques in May.

162 million uniques reported by comscore. Freaking many I'd say.

One of the problems I've faced throughout life is that I'm kind of lazy, or maybe I lack will power or discipline or something. Either way, it's very difficult for me to do anything that I don't feel like doing. If I try to force it, my energy disappears, and I hate life. Furthermore, not only were my parents not Chinese, but they had five kids, so there wasn't time for Amy Chua's style of parenting. I kind of had to figure it out on my own.

My strategy can be reduced to two rules: 1) Find a way to make it fun and 2) If that fails, find a way to do something else.

I do agree with Paul. Increasingly so.

While most 13-year-olds spend their free time playing video games or cruising Facebook, one 7th grader was trekking through the woods uncovering a mystery of science. After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic panels. His impressive results show that using a specific formula for distributing solar cells can drastically improve energy generation. The study earned Aidan a provisional U.S patent – it’s a rare find in the field of technology and a fantastic example of how biomimicry can drastically improve design.

Apparently not that old.
Very inspiring.
Kids: stop playing videogames, go out and unleash your creativity!

businesses should become profitable before they become big. The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth.

I wonder have twitter.com executives read this article?
Maybe they are thinking that they can pull it off like Facebook did?

A threshold earner is someone who seeks to earn a certain amount of money and no more. If wages go up, that person will respond by seeking less work or by working less hard or less often. That person simply wants to “get by” in terms of absolute earning power in order to experience other gains in the form of leisure—whether spending time with friends and family, walking in the woods and so on. Luck aside, that person’s income will never rise much above the threshold.

Mission complete, Houston,” said Capt. Christopher J. Ferguson of the Navy, commander of the shuttle Atlantis for the last flight. “After serving the world for over 30 years, the space shuttle has earned its place in history, and it’s come to a final stop.

Discoverability

The true advantage of the Graphical User Interface, GUI, was that commands no longer had to be memorized. Instead, every possible action in the interface could be discovered through systematic exploration of the menus.  Discoverability is another important principle that has now disappeared. Apple specifically recommends against the use of menus. Android recommends it, even providing a dedicated menu key, but does not require that it always be active. Moreover, swipes and gestures cannot readily be incorporated in menus: So far, nobody has figured out how to inform the person using the app what the alternatives are.

I am not a big fan of menus in GUIs in Mobile apps. I like direct UIs but it is true that often gestures are quite hard to figure out when user has no easy way to discover them.
what do you think of menus? Are they the way to go or just plain evil?