Razorfish merges

I’m really surprised about this: Adobe and Macromedia joining forces. Or rather, Adobe is buying Macromedia. What is the future of all of the products that compete? Like Illustrator vs. Freehand, and GoLive vs. Dreamweaver, and Fireworks vs. ImageReady. I’m curious.

But not in a permanent way. He needs to stop being the only face of Apple. He can and should still be the reining champion at Apple Computer, but in a very big way he needs to be grooming a protege. And publicly. He needs to step down from being the only person in the…

I think it’s interesting how closely eBay and Amazon compare in traffic (according to Alexa). This chart shows 3 years of trends and they have pretty much the same trend going.

I’ll be at Refresh Phoenix tonight. Sean Tierney from Grid7 will be speaking (he’s a cool guy and he’s stopped by the Tornado office a few times). I’ve not yet mentioned Refresh Phoenix on BrainFuel but it’s a project by Aaron Post (also a cool guy) and the gang at 30 Second Rule. I posted…

I wish to dispel a myth that is rapidly spreading and must admit that I didn’t verify the facts myself the first few times I heard it. The myth of 99.9% uptime. People are saying that the 0.1% represents 8 whole days of downtime a year. That is not true at all! The truth is:…

This is a shout out to all of the people I work with in Phoenix and the surrounding areas. I keep seeing announcements for mini conferences and workshops in other cities and states that sound really cool and are all far away. Some very talented people live in Phoenix and there’s no sense kidding ourselves….