Voxeljet: From 3D printed James Bond cars to a wildly successful IPO | VentureBeat

Voxeljet: From 3D printed James Bond cars to a wildly successful IPO | VentureBeat - For the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall, Propshop Modelmakers used Voxeljet’s 3D printers to create three full-scaled replicas of the ultra-rare Aston Martin DB5. The cars, which are ultimately destroyed in the film, are almost indistinguishable from the original, thanks in large part to Voxeljet’s printers.

Super cool. I saw a lot of 3D printing technology at an LA siggraph event recently. At once both fascinating and practical.

Meet Blogger Mobile Biz Stone's Idea for Twitter Before Twitter - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD

Meet Blogger Mobile Biz Stone's Idea for Twitter Before Twitter - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD - This is quintessential Twitter before actually becoming Twitter. The entire premise was to easily post messages from your phone — a concept foreign to most folks who only had feature phones (which basically was most people with cellphones at the time).

The genesis of twitter: the insane idea that people would want to blog from their mobile phones.

Apple Surpassing Android With Businesses Writing Custom Mobile Apps - Ina Fried - Mobile - AllThingsD

Apple Surpassing Android With Businesses Writing Custom Mobile Apps - Ina Fried - Mobile - AllThingsD - importantly, more than 95 percent of custom apps developed by businesses are written for Apple devices.

Duh, it's the tools, silly rabbit.

6 things wrong with the ‘Lean Startup’ model (and what to do about it) | VentureBeat

6 things wrong with the ‘Lean Startup’ model (and what to do about it) | VentureBeat - Michael Sharkey is cofounder and CEO of Bislr. He started his first business to impress girls.

Leaning in another direction.

Rocket flight as we’ve never seen it before: SpaceX captures Grasshopper rocket via hexacopter | VentureBeat

Rocket flight as we’ve never seen it before: SpaceX captures Grasshopper rocket via hexacopter | VentureBeat - SpaceX is continuing to test its vertical takeoff and vertical landing rocket, Grasshopper, with small hops to test the rocket guidance and landing technology needed to return a rocket to Earth in exactly the way it slipped the surly bonds of our planet.

Some say privatization is preferable to government. This catches my imagination for same.

Why developers should build on iOS before heading to Android | VentureBeat

Why developers should build on iOS before heading to Android | VentureBeat - Sensopia chose an iOS-first approach for the development of MagicPlan. We are now releasing our software on Android, after having developed and iterated on iOS for a while.

It's called rapid prototyping and let's not forget that the original version of DOOM by ID Software was prototyped on the NeXT. Or at least the level designer. It's not an event, it's a theme.

iPhone IP Wars: Apple & the thorny issues of patent protection

iPhone IP Wars: Apple & the thorny issues of patent protection
Apple's win against Franklin apparently left the company confident that it could also protect the Macintosh from software infringement through similar copyright claims. But things didn't work out that way. "

Another fantastic article that completely fails to mention the role of Xerox PARC in creating the GUI.

Jeff Bezos Amazon Book Excerpt - Jason Del Rey - Commerce - AllThingsD

Jeff Bezos Amazon Book Excerpt - Jason Del Rey - Commerce - AllThingsD
“He has Ted’s laugh!” the stepson told Stone. “It’s almost exact.”"

Whodathunkit? A laugh is nature and not nurture.

Mac shipments continue to shrink as Apple loses ground in US PC market

Mac shipments continue to shrink as Apple loses ground in US PC market - But the numbers don't include Apple's growing international share, nor does either firm track tablet shipments, such as Apple's market-leading iPad.

Sort of a weak comment because tablets have nothing to do with the article, which is about Mac market share.