Death On The File

Software firm Quip is attempting to ‘do a Netflix’, but instead of changing the way we use media files, they’ll be tackling documents instead. Are computer files about to be a thing of the past? Looks that way!

This is too big-a change and I’m scared. Hold me.

Google gets in on the car sharing thing.

Google-owned mapping company ‘Waze’ have started a car-pooling business that connects car sharers to your frequently taken routes. Based in Israel initially, this is the first entry from a tech giant into this rapidly growing market.

We work from home here at GGA but I’m still open to offers for carrying me from my bedroom to my downstairs office?

Zuckerberg has finally lost his mind

What do you think Mark Zuckerberg is touting as the future of Facebook? If you don’t guess correctly his theory may need some more work…

Feedback and what to do with it

Although we sometimes have cause to get upset or annoyed with customer feedback (well not GGA obviously — we’re peerless) it’s still vital for helping your business evolve. Here’s a guide to taking feedback, separating it into the useful/useless and then adapting it into something positive.

Startup success case study: Edgar

How a Marketing Company became a Product Company and turned over $100K in its first year. Lots of nice lessons here, the main one being if you marry a Ruby on Rails developer, things get done quicker.

Nokia suffer the Microsoft curse

Not content with driving their own company into the ground, Microsoft have decided that Nokia has been around long enough now and have totally destroyed it. But how exactly did they take a thriving technology giant and cock it up so badly?

Actually, don’t answer that. This IS the company that created Internet Explorer after all.

GGA’s website of the week:

Woah… trippy!!! Here’s a head rush of an experiment called ‘The Void’ that allows you to create online fractal ‘art’. Pointless but beautifully done.

… and finally.

This week we’ve seen what happens when someone launches a firework from their own head, and the results of a man climbing into an alligator tank. Hint: they didn’t end well. A slightly less lethal, but no less ‘WTF?,’ moment came this week when a man did this in order to charge his iPhone.

What. A. Tool.