- Martin Sorrell, who's probably spent more on paid pitches than anyone reading this, links the practice of unpaid pitching to oversupply in agency-land;
- Notes from the Teenage Dragons Den panel at OverTheAir; really annoyed I missed this, as it sounded excellent;
- Amazon have launched their mobile payments service, even including 1-click billing. It's nice to see some much-needed competition for PayForIt and Bango;
- Symbian have open sourced their UserEmulator tool for automated testing;
- Caterina Fake on working hard: "So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard. "
- 100 impediments a ScrumMaster might run into;
- A phenomenal light-show projected onto the side of what looks like a stately home, at a "secret festival";
- Thoughts on the future of the boutique software shop: "I do feel that (if it isn't happening already) UX will become the competitive differentiator for the boutiques". It's happening already;
- MIT students take space photos for $150;
- And along similar lines, the project Icarus video of the curvature of the earth;
- Certified Scrum Developer programme?
- Hiding data, content and technology in real-world games, from Mr Thorpe - a lovely presentation, lots of gems in here;
- Avoiding iPhone app rejection from Apple: "If you do find your app is rejected, the best advice I can give is try to remain calm";
- Device APIs and Policy Working Group, a new W3C effort "to create client-side APIs that enable the development of Web Applications and Web Widgets that interact with devices services such as Calendar, Contacts, Camera, etc."
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