Description: by Amit Runchal
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I recently gave a “ lightning talk ” at Úll , an Apple-centric conference “about building great products”. It was given a day or two before some recent discussions about Google’s experiment with deprecating the URL in the newest Canary build of Chrome. I’ve attached most of the slides and a slightly-edited version of the talk, which was well-received in that I at least got into several arguments about it afterwards with people smarter than me.
Hey, I’m Amit Runchal. I’m building a couple mobile apps right now — one’s a tiny little bootstrapped app we built for fun — basically a really nice way to see movie showtimes and trailers and buy tickets called Movieswing that should be coming out in a month or so. The other one’s a bit bigger and we’re in stealth mode so I’m going to be a douche and not talk about it. Anyway, I’ve been thinking a lot about the web and apps and related technologies recently and I’ve basically got an unsubstantiated polemic
So I need to define a word real quick before I begin: Truthiness . Truthiness was something coined by Stephen Colbert back in 2005, and it basically means statements that feel true, but are completely unsupported by facts, logic, or reality.