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Riverbed | 14 years ago | on: Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People

And there's even a reference in here to the HN topic of the day - swearing in front of an audience!

> 2. Swearing can help influence an audience. Light swearing, that is. (Go overboard and lose all credibility.)

Riverbed | 14 years ago | on: Alla Klein: a fake person in charge of customer support

The Alla Klein approach is also used when CS moves to Bangalore behind the scenes...

Riverbed | 14 years ago | on: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

When you own both the authoring tools and the runtime, the world is your oyster. Sure, HTML5 authoring tools suck today, and it will be a huge boon if Adobe leads the way to the promised land. But the barriers to entry for others to then go the same way is so much lower than in Adobe's previous environment.

Well, it will be very interesting ride over the next few years!

Riverbed | 14 years ago | on: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

I really hope Adobe can make the transition to a standards-based world fast enough for them to remain a significant player. It is so hard for a mega-company to wean itself from the fat margins of a proprietary world they created.

Riverbed | 14 years ago | on: BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple

Scanning checks on a smartphone is the killer app for anyone who has a small, mobile business.

Riverbed | 14 years ago | on: A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

There's the new tactile overlay for touchscreen keyboards:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740785012/touchfire-the-...