Instagram gets it right. A simple, lightweight service with a clean, user-friendly design. Behind the scenes only a small, dedicated team. Their innovative work has led to a deeply engaged community brimming with loyal members. Still, the company’s direction remains uncertain. In light of the New Year, I’d like to share some thoughts on the future of Instagram.

We recently sold MacBlogz.com. At times the process was daunting, but the knowledge we gained was priceless. This entry hopes to shed some light on what it’s really like to have a piece of software acquired.

I’ve been running into a frustrating issue on both my iPad and my iPhone lately. After purchasing or downloading a new app, the device installs it on the last home-screen, in the last position available, and I then have to move it. This can get annoying.

On stage at the D8 conference, Steve Jobs eloquently shared a thought. According to Jobs, had the iPhone debuted on any cellular network, not just AT&T’s, any network would have struggled just like AT&T’s has. I’m calling bullshit.

After a few weeks of hard work, we have successfully upgraded our printing methods. All of our Because Steve Says So shirts are now screen-printed completely by hand (one by one) locally here in Portland, Oregon.

Exactly a year ago today, Dave and I conceptualized what a multi-touch enabled Mighty Mouse might look. Roughly ten months later, Apple actually released a multi-touch enabled “magic” mouse (legal issues).

MacBlogz.com was one of the first high profile sites to be hosted on the RackSpace Cloud (used to be known as Mosso pre-acquisition). In August of 2009, the RackSpace Cloud featured MacBlogz as a “hot” cloud application.