msingleton

Taking talented outsiders and migrating them to productive team members

The site redesign and recently launched website features like the homepage map, lists, and notifications, have brought them closer together. With these features we’ve begun consuming our own public APIs, via JavaScript,…

I’m always encouraging people to forge ahead with HTML5 whenever possible, but it’s worth considering the SEO implications and incompatibilities that may arise until we know how search engines are handling HTML5.

The strongest case in favor of building on someone else's platform is synonymous with building a lean project and getting to a minimum viable product as fast as possible. Getting to the demo phase is always of paramount…

Cloud based services are creating huge efficiency increases in cost and development. AWS did it with file storage, VPS systems, queues (and more), drop.io is doing it with media conversion and transfer, Twillio is doing…

In 2009 there was a huge emergence of a new* type of content that was accelerated by the efforts of services trying to increase their virality through social networks: behavior generated content (BGC).

For every 10% of the 31 million Xbox 360 units sold that cause the purchase of a non-PC, it equates to a loss of 2.25 billion in market value for the PC and less than 1 billion increase in Xbox 360 market value. An…