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Signals vs. Noise recently tried answering the question of how they moved from consulting to product development: “37signals made the move from clients to products one day at a time. Basecamp was developed alongside client work and was treated as essentially a third client. It had to compete for resources on equal footing with other […]

Check out the Spy Museum — a privately owned museum in DC. The museum is cool because, well, it’s filled with spy stuff. What’s interesting about it is that it’s privately owned. “The Malrite Company, developer of the International Spy Museum, is the successor to Malrite Communications Group Inc. founded in 1956. For more than […]

As an avid Rhapsody user there’s little I hate more (other than Rhapsody being literally completely broken on the Mac – is anyone paying attention over there?) than wanting to listen to a track on Rhapsody and not finding it in their catalog. Someone with veto power, artist, composer, label, etc. said “no thanks”. I […]

I’m becoming more and more addicted to the Rhapsody subscription music service. It has it’s problems (missing tracks in the catalog, no roaming of playlists with local content, bugginess, crappy mac support, no cross-fades, etc.) but the roaming of my playlists, the ability to explore new music for more than 30 seconds at a time, […]

Photo by Randy Stewart. You may think this is a horrible reinforcement of gender-specific stereotypes. You may think this is a horrible waste of money. You may think it’s great. I’m not saying that we’re flying our four-year-old princess-crazed daughter across the country to do this stuff, but I am fascinated by the entire enterprise. […]