The New York Times recently posted an article that outlined some suggestions that Zuckerberg take into consideration to prepare for a possible IPO, or just as general suggestions. Remember NYT — Zuck Doesn’t Listen. Kind of like how 37signals doesn’t listen and gives a no to almost every feature request because they’re so fucking naive and want the product to go into the direction that they want it to go into so that they can achieve their vision of Basecamp or any other 37signals product. (Fucking long link, but you don’t even have to click it now, because that’s the summary of it.)

You might think that Facebook is listening to their customers via the Profile Redesign, but it’s more like “umm.. ok we’ll change that but now shut the fuck up” kind of thing.

You have to listen to the customer. The customer defines where your product is going. Not you.

To Microsoft: offer frickin $37/share and quit pissing off YHOO shareholders. You need Yahoo!, Yahoo! needs Microsoft to be a viable competitor against Google. Otherwise, you will always be battling each other and not getting anything done, while you fight out the 20% of the market that is left. Get your fucking act together, quit pissing off shareholders, and BUY.

Seen on AppleInsider: Apple files for universal iPhone instant messaging patent

Apple has filed a large number of stupid, generic patents, and this is one of them. Not stupid that it won’t work and is a bad idea, but stupid that Apple is trying to patent everything under the sun, obviously trying to take up all of the patents for themselves. Absolutely crazy.