jay_kyburz

I fixed a button on my shorts. It's not pretty but my pants stay up.

I assume he is going to find money for people who want to make great interesting things and not have to worry about business stuff or the interests of investors.

I'm in the games industry as an indie and... well it's a big place and there are lots of changes going on. I wouldn't say they pose a danger to anybody who wants to make money making ga…

I agree that the @ at the beginning or the @ in the middle is a problem. here is my opinion Jack if you are reading. Every tweet needs some extra field when you are creating them. * to: field like…

I think this is key. On Media Watch (Australia) last week they discussed how savvy politicians now use social to speak directly to the public, cutting the middle man out of the equation. The middle ma…

Serious question. If you are just making plaintext notes how come you are not just using your text editor of choice? Vim, Emacs, Sublime, Atom etc etc

You are not crazy. The whole Google docs interface _is_ completely crazy. It's drives me nuts whenever I go in there and makes be frustrated because of what it could be if only they didn't h…

Whats happening is that people are publishing large bundles of e-books in a single torrent. Or like music, every book from a particular author. I think fiction published need to look at what is happen…

This was actually my plan (sort of) for my online sci-fi strategy game Neptune's Pride when I ditched AdSense. I was going to hand select things on Amazon that my players would be interested in. …

I'm with you Jorgigh althought I'm probbably pretty resistant, I have a 2 and a 3 year old who are already being bombarded with ads on youtube.

I don't want my kids bombarded with ads for crap on Amazon.

I savy user probably values their time more than its worth. Spend a little more and you don't have to.

Do people really pay 5K to go see a single Basketball game.

Ok, I just went and had a look at the Times website you minimum subscription is around $80USD a year but you can up to around 500USD a year. Lets round 800,000 at 100US a year is 80MM right? Thats a s…

So Paywalls and app.net failed. I can think of heaps of better ideas for packaging news and other content. I would like to see some of the lessons we have learnt about Freemium applied to news. First …

I'm with Buffoon on this one. Trying to convince somebody they want to buy something by bombarding them with ads on every web page is shitty. I don't want to be exposed to it. I don't w…

Unfortunately I'm stuck on 2.7 until Google updates App Engine

Probably means from 3rd gear down to 2nd.

The authors Big Bang licence is a bit crazy. Why not just monetise Books in exactly the same way they monetise Video in YouTube? Surely the copyright law is quite similar.

I think they should keep the 140 limit for the body message, but exclude URLs and have a separate limit for some additional hash tags.

You know, people call me crazy, but I build my website for mobile first, and stop there. I kind of like a narrow 480px columns even on desktop.

Yeah, I don't know why everybody is pointing at browsers and saying the mobile web sux. I'm constantly amazed at what my phones browser can do. Its the content that sux.

As rules for some community, fine, it's your community, whatever. But in the workplace or the community at large, "Unwelcome comments"about the abuse if your children or drug use are im…

Its not the platform that's the problem. Its that the content is not appearing on Blogs and in the feed. Its happening on Social Networks.

Best line of the article. "I think part of the reason [Steve Jobs] smelled bad was 'cause he wouldn't necessarily go home every day."

How do you define _trusted_ apps. The windows app store is full of junk.

I didn't see this discussed below, but I think when PPK says web’s strengths: simplicity, URLs and reach. I think he misses an important feature for me, as a user: Security. I just don&…

Also Security. Installing an app (even from an official store) is just too risky. Even a non-malicious app can significantly undermine your machines performance. When I close a browser tab, the web ap…

Is it just me or is there something strange about the way this piece is written. Feels like it is written by an bot or somehow optimized for search. The manuscript, written in "Hijazi scrip…

I have this on my desk if you want it. Make me an offer. http://imgur.com/RH6zsIq edit: I can see from the Amazon link below it's still easy to get a hold of.…