Demian's Blog

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• The iPad: a Near-Miracle for My Son With Autism | BlogHer – a neat perspective on using an ipad as a learning tool for children
• 30+ iPad Apps For Designers, Developers And Creative Types | SpyreStudios – Some great suggestions for iPad apps

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• Ten One Designer’s Blog – This will open up some really interesting possibilities for the iPad
• Communities Dominate Brands: Full Analysis of iPhone Economics – it is bad news. And then it gets worse – A brave look at the real economics behind the AppStore

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• Panic Blog » Coda Notes: a Safari Extension – This Safari extension sounds amazing, can't wait
• All things spatial: Law of “exponentialism” of online advertising revenue and online business value – An interesting look at how to peg the value per user per month to your site, in terms of advertising revenue

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• Kyle Conroy’s Personal Blog and Portfolio – Should I have bought that Apple Product? – Jeez, be a darn sight better than having all those old iphones lying around
• Academia and the decline of wealth in America – Jacob – This article proposes that we (W. Europe and N. America) have less buying power than our parents and explores some of the historic reasons why that may be the case – interesting reading

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• The Technium: 1,000 True Fans – A very inspiring piece that suggests that artists and small businesses creating their own products actually only need about 1000 true fans to generate a decent revenue
• Mac & the iPad – Another really interesting and inspiring article about Steve Jobs, it gives an insight into his design process

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• Khan Academy – An amazing collection of 1200+ videos on anything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance
• JWB’s blog: Joel on Software – a summary: 2000 – Joel's blog is required reading for anyone in the tech sector – here's a nice slice to pique your interest

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• Rare Steve Jobs videos now online – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Tech – Fascinating set of video interviews with Steve Jobs from 2003-4, interesting to hear his views on what would become iPhone and now iPad
• Kickstarter – Wow this is interesting, could be a run for the money for our VC friends

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• Gowalla Adds Real-time Feeds and Activity Streams For Maximum Mashup Action – The implications of being to run feeds connected to alerts for specific venue checkins are quite cool, put on the thinking cap …
• A Freelancer Marketplace | Pick.im – Wow, nice site for finding freelancers
• Convert HTML to PDF | Online HTML to PDF API – Quite a cool API that allows you to transform HTML to PDF programmatically
• 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere | Life Beyond Code – This is quite a thought provoking article and may help with some reality checks in terms of your career!
• Evolution: The Curious Case of Dogs : Observations of a Nerd – Fascinating article describing how natural selection has optimised behaviour of dogs in urban environments
• Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps | Carsonified – Some solid ideas here about what drives success in web apps in 2010
• Hacker News | Ask HN: Interesting (Non software) books? – Book recommendations from the HN readers – added a few to my wishlist

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• cfis : Rails’ Unusual Architecture – a peek under the hood of Rails
• The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009 | Webdesigner Depot – I really want one of those Motorola DynaTAC 8000X