Jim Muttram

Jim Muttram

Scribe - doing the job for me?

I was reading about the new feature called Scribe on the Blogger in Draft blog. This post is being written using this interesting auto-suggestion system. It takes some time to get used to reading the word forming ahead of the cursor - which you need to do if you are going to really…

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Jim Muttram

New Blogger iOS app

I've just installed the new Blogger App for the iPhone which has just been released. This has been an age in coming - blogging on the go to Google's blogging platform has been painful in the extreme while services like Posterous raced ahead with multiple…

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Jim Muttram

Dangerous ways to celebrate

The BBC just answered a question I often find myself asking: how dangerous is firing a gun into the air? The answer, apparently, is "fairly dangerous". It seems obvious that if you fire a bullet into the air it will come down to land somewhere.

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Jim Muttram

Time to get back to blogging again

Blogging has been pushed into the background lately owing to the enormous popularity of Facebook, Twitter, Google + et al, but I've noticed a bit of a reappraisal going on. The latest example was Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void who put his decision to cut…

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Jim Muttram

How to succeed at product design

There is always a lot of mystery around why one product succeeds and another, pretty much identical one fails. In a very honest post Isaac Hall, founder of Recurly.com sets out to explain. His product pre-dated Dropbox but ultimately failed to be anything like as…

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