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Jan 03

“It’s the 25th anniversary of the Apple Macintosh, but Steve Jobs’ eyes are dry. At the company headquarters in Silicon Valley, where he was presenting a set of new laptops to the press last October, I mentioned the birthday to him. Jobs recoiled at any suggestion of nostalgia. “I don’t think about that,” he said. “When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you’ll be crushed. You have to look forward.”

— Steven Levy of Wired

Dec 23

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iFart makes $10k a day in the AppStore

In these difficult economic times, how should you spend your time holidays while doing your best to avoid your family? Build an iPhone application of course. Below is the sales data for the iFart application:

12/12 - 75 units - #70 entertainment
12/13 - 296 units - #16 entertainment
12/14 - 841 units - #76 overall, #8 entertainment
12/15 - 1510 units - #39 overall, #5 entertainment
12/16 - 1797 units - #22 overall, #3 entertainment
12/17 - 2836 units - #15 overall, #3 entertainment
12/18 - 3086 units - #10 overall, #3 entertainment
12/19 - 3117 units - #9 overall, #2 entertainment
12/20 - 5497 units, - #4 overall, #2 entertainment
12/21 - 9760 units - #2 overall, #1 entertainment
12/22 - 13274 units - #1 overall

Wonder how much they would’ve made with AdMob ads. Wanna help me choose which disposable iPhone application to work on during the holiday break? More on that soon…

Have Holidays!

Dec 23

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ARCADE FIRE DOCUMENTARY: GREEK THEATER SCENES

I’ve got a list of things to post up here, all of which seem lame to me, but you’ll be the judge of that dear reader(s). In the meantime, I wanted to upload a quick clip from the new Arcade Fire documentary Miroir Noir.

I was at this concert at the Greek, but I have to say that watching it on tape is far more exciting and unfortunately the sound is better as well. I thought that all the lighting effects were meant for the crowd, but this one is clearly used to pump up the band as well. It gives me chills…