1. Be rigorous in sorting out what’s worth following and spending time for and what not. There’s a thousand things a day that will pile up minutes in wasted time.
2. Develop your own culture and stick to it. It’s not a program, it’s a direction.
3. Learn to utilize imperfection. Make your disadvantage an advantage.
4. Once you had an idea, do a quick check if anything is keeping you from starting with it right away. If nothing’s holding you back, why are you?
5. Listen to people telling you how to do things better, but don’t drop doing things your own way.
6. If you want to change something but can’t attack it now, postpone it. Don’t feel bad to procrastinate it. If it’s an issue that requires immediate action, you wouldn’t be able to postpone it.
7. Don’t spend more time thinking about consequences than you spend about actions. Your intuition is a great filter for consequences; so you can focus on how to make something happen without worrying too much.
8. Know when to give up, or when to let something rest, respectively. It’s not about losing or winning the case, it’s about letting things work for themselves. In the bigger picture, it’s okay if they aren’t working out perfectly.
9. It’s ok to fuck up. And saying it too. It’s not okay to never fuck up, because then you never tried.
10. Analyze failures but don’t linger with them. Move on and focus on the next thing.

It’s got one of those hard-to-get domain names. No, not hard to get what they mean, hard to find one that isn’t taken, because they sound and look so fashionably Web 2.0.

Poolga is a site with a simple mission: to populate your iPhones with better wallpapers. It’s perfect for those of us who say they’ve got better taste than what many fanboys have posted on Flickr. Poolga has become my first source for changing boredom on my brand new iPhone.

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Google’s Ride Finder is the kind of application that will become handy when you have an iPhone. A Google Map shows updated real-life data of cabs in U.S. cities, tracked by location. I zoomed into San Francisco and clicked “update location” a few times. It really shows how the cabs are moving. Say you are stuck in the city and need a ride. You simply walk to the next cluster of cabs and get a ride home.

Expect a lot more of these applications to emerge with devices like the iPhone. A year from now, competing phone manufacturers will have updated their browsing experience to catch up with the iPhone. On the users side of the experience, the Web is now leaving the desktop or laptop and evolving towards a semantic web, where Web applications tie in with real life objects and situations.