Welcome to iCorbin, my little spot on the web to wax poetically about design, software, science and the human predicament. I am the real Brandon Corbin.
Listy.me idea vs. reality
In a post a few weeks ago I begged my future self to not give up on my List Sharing idea, a bit.ly for Lists - Listy.me is the result.
The first beta version is officially out in the crowd, and I’m really happy with the result – while it’s far from perfect or complete, it’s good [...]
New pet project Listy.me and a plea to my future self.
Another little pet project of mine – Listy, Shopping List Sharing.
Disclaimer: I have a tendency to create these little ideas and spend a weekend burning the midnight oil to build it. Then, Monday comes. I get swept back in to the stream of my full-time work and these little ideas fall in to the archives. This post [...]
ChaCha API with PHP
ChaCha has finally released an API for their Question and Answer service (documentation here). Personally, I have been waiting for years to get my hands on this data, and today I am happy to share this PHP Class for accessing both questions/answers and trending topics. You will need to register for an API, but the [...]
3 awesome small business ecommerce options.
Thanks to the open source movement, small businesses now have a gaggle of options for running an online store. However, the volume of options usually manifests a decision-overflow that results in complete paralysis. So in efforts to help make your decision easier, here are 3 e-commerce platforms that I would recommend to any small business [...]
The man behind Apple’s amazing products. Meet Jonathan Ive.
Jonathan Ives is the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple, Inc, and since 1996 has been leading the design team that has produced the ground breaking design of the first iMac, iPod, iPhone, Macbooks and every other product Apple produces.
About Me
People call me Brandon Corbin, and I usually respond. I'm a crazy passionate product guy who obsesses about usability, software architecture and product marketing.
