Flow Focused

Flow Focused

Business Agility with Agile and Kanban

Year: 2012

  • iOS’s Disposable Games

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    The other day I was looking through drawings of classic Nintendo characters and I realized that I haven’t replayed any videos games in a long time. In high school and university I spent a lot of my time replaying the games I grew up with like Metroid, Zelda and Final Fantasy. Most of the games…

  • Paleo Mode

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    CrossFit, The Paleo Diet, and the ways that social media, and mobile devices empower us all seem to match the natural ways for people exercise, eat, communicate, and move respectively. It’s only in the last little bit of history have things gone off track with the how much and how we exercise, how we eat,…

  • Twitter’s Inevitable Consistency

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    Twitter’s API updates and it’s direction that third party clients need to provide an experience more consistent with Twitter’s was inevitable for an ad supported network. There’s a lot of missed opportunity for Twitter’s advertisers with so many users using 3rd party clients applications who don’t display Twitter’s ad products. Each application styling it’s own…

  • Four Platforms That Are Changing Writing

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    Not since 1998 when blogging was first introduced to the world has writing changed. Recently, four platforms made by start-ups and individuals have done more to change writing than anyone else in the world. Since 1998, publishing and media companies have spent their time trying to adapt their processes and save their businesses. For the…

  • App.net: The Country Club of the Internet? // Digital Local

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    App.net: The Country Club of the Internet? // Digital Local: Granted, it’s not yet clear exactly what App.net’s subscription fee will be. But even a very low fee could prove prohibitive for a large segment of the web. And even if it doesn’t, the appeal of this new network seems limited to a specific demographic,…

  • The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance – Marco.org

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    Malcolm Bastien
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    The Mac App Store’s future of irrelevance – Marco.org: Apple can never require an App-Store-only future and all of the simplicity and security benefits that it could bring, if that was ever their goal. And with reduced buyer confidence, fewer developers can afford to make their software App Store-only. This even may reduce the long-term…