“All the AdWords in the world are not going to save you if no one’s looking for what you’re making,”. Instead, what worked for Dropbox was “making our users really really happy, and then giving them good tools to spread the word.” — via @wwdj
Monthly Archives: October 2010
Darcy Clarke vs. my code
Zepto.js
“Zepto.js is a minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax.” — I like the bigger picture behind this: don’t include a full jQuery on a mobile site but go back to basics and serve visitors a tiny javascript file which handles most of the stuff. Somewhat (in an idea-wise manner) …
How Allies Used Math Against German Tanks
“Allied forces initially tried conventional intelligence gathering: spying, intercepting and decoding transmissions and interrogating captured enemies. Using these methods, the Allies deduced that the German military industrial complex churned out around 1,400 tanks each month from June 1940 through September 1942. That just didn’t seem right.”