I find my success rate with tracking my scroll position of long form content less than 100%. Page flips, on the other hand?  I have never lost my place … Page flips, when done right, are more usable than infinite scroll.

Dude has a point. Note: he’s talking about scrolling on the iPad. Not iPhone.

Being intelligent is like having a knife. If you train every day in using the knife, you will be invincible. If you think that just having a knife will make you win any battle you fight, then you will fail. This [belief] in your own inherent ability is what will kill your startup. Success comes from the work and ability you put in becoming better than the others, and not from some brilliance you feel you may have within you.

I enjoyed the thoughtful story, and it reminds me that success comes from smarts and hard work, not just smarts on their own.

If you think people using iPhone OS devices are an important segment of your intended audience, you can no longer build a Flash-dependent web site. And if you don’t think people using iPhone OS devices are an important segment of your intended audience, you’re probably wrong.

Another good, in-depth discussion on the Flash/no-Flash on iPhone and iPad and what this move means for web designers/developers everywhere.

Wow, this was good. My favorite highlight: discussing the lunacy of the 80 hour + workweek. I’m glad he went there, because I’ve seen people who believe in dedicating their every waking moment to a project or startup—and expect everyone else to as well.

I know you can’t always do it in 40 hours, but I really question the efficiency of someone who works 80 hours plus every week on a project.

Chalk one up to working smart, then work hard.

It’s not easy to make a great, simple intro video to your product. But Square really managed to pull it off so well. Have a look!

…Over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 ​as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

They’re still going to support things like IE7, Firefox 3, Chrome 4.0 and Safari 3.0+. Still though, happy to see a really major blow dealt to probably the most problematic browser possible. I hope it’ll be a quick death for IE6. And a little painful.

NEVER lead with features. No one gives a shite about your features other than your product manager and your developers. If you demo your product (which is always great) then tell us part of the story while you’re demo’ing. Talk us through how the person using your product is benefiting through your technology. Don’t: show us every single feature – we don’t care. Don’t: tell us, “and now I enter my name, and then I put in my email address, and then I can pull in my social graph through Facebook Connect, and then then I can select the button here to Tweet out my actions on Twitter.” Zzzzzzzzz.

What I find really interesting is in about 90% of presentations I’ve seen is that they break about every one of these rules. It’s good that I found this list—I really hope to use it next time I present something, even in a private, off-stage setting.

Hey, you want to know how to piss off an author? It’s easy: Keep people from buying their books. You want to know how to really piss them off? Keep people from buying their books for reasons that have nothing to do with them. And you know how to make them absolutely incandescent with rage? Keep people from buying their books for reasons that have nothing to do with them, and keep it a surprise until it happens. Which, as it happens, is exactly what Amazon did.

Blistering article on the Amazon/Macmillian debacle and of course, how everyone’s going to end up wanting that new somethingsomething from Apple.

The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS. The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organising the party.

Fraser Spiers published a brilliant article on how the iPad (and iPhone OS) are a complete revolution in computing, and how some of the nefarious geek elite have their days numbered.