Interview With Campaign Monitor

37 Signals has a great interview with Campaign Monitor.

A Better Freelancer is Giving Away Rework

A Better Freelancer is giving away a copy of Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s Rework on Monday. You just need to follow them on Twitter (https://twitter.com/freelancebetter) or Tumblr to enter. It’s a great book and Aaron and Pat are great guys. Good idea.

Twitterrific’s Tough Love

Iconfactory’s Gedeon Maheux on how Twitterrific for iPhone lost its focus: Somewhere during Twitterrific’s evolution from the desktop to the iPhone, we forgot how to say no. We said yes to too many of the latest features, 3rd party services and user requests. Eventually this “leap before you

Orwell Comes to Massachusetts

Massachusetts is taking $100 million from “wealthy” hospitals to reduce insurance premiums for small businesses: Wealthier hospitals would be required to make a one-time $100 million contribution to ease insurance premiums for smaller businesses under a bill approved Tuesday by the state Senate. Calling this a “contribution” is disturbingly

Apple’s Mobile Future

There is a reason Apple included their new advertising platform, iAd, as one of iPhone OS 4′s seven “tent pole” features. Apple’s future is mobile devices, and iAd is an integral part of their goal to define the mobile market. Google’s Threat Apple’s strong response to

Ed Catmulls Talk

Scott Berkun has a video of Ed Catmull’s talk at the Economist event last month. (Via Jason Kottke.)

Democrats Want to Control Insurance Premium Rates

Senator Harkin said he will move on legislation to control insurance rate premiums: Fearing that health insurance premiums may shoot up in the next few years, Senate Democrats laid a foundation on Tuesday for federal regulation of rates, four weeks after President Obama signed a law intended to rein in

Be Nice

Brent Simmons’ advice to developers: be nice. Another way of saying it is be genuine. Welcome to TightWind. If you liked what you read above, you can read more in the archives and subscribe to the new ones. If you'd like to introduce yourself, you can send me

Jason Reitman Interview

Jason Reitman talks about directing in a lengthy interview. I haven’t watched it all yet, but it’s started out well. Reitman, if you aren’t familiar with him, directed Thank You for Smoking, Juno and Up in the Air.

iAd and Advertising As a Service

There are a number of interesting angles to analyze Apple’s new advertising platform, iAd. What I want to focus on, though, is what it means for how advertising is conducted, and what advertising should be. Apple’s proposition is that ads, to be most effective, must be emotional and

Eco-Flip for iPad

Marware’s Eco-Flip iPad case looks like a great option. It stands the iPad up both in landscape and portrait orientation. Thanks to Jorge for pointing it out.

Thoughts on iPhone OS 4

So here’s what’s new in iPhone OS 4: multitasking, application folders, Mail updates, iBooks, and iAds. Multitasking sounds good. You can double-click the home button, and a dock will pop up with all running applications. When applications are “running,” though, they aren’t taking processor cycles–it