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Links: 8-7-2009

• inessential.com: Anatomy of a feature
  Similar to Steve Yegge’s "shit’s easy syndrome" blog post.
  (categories: programming design software architecture shits-easy-syndrome )

• iPhone Application UI Design Patterns — Flyosity: Mac & iPhone Interface Design
  Concise discussion on the various ways you can present the list of available features in an iPhone application.
  (categories: iphone design ui patterns interface mobile )

• Talking with Cathy Marshall about tags, digital archiving, and lifestreams « Jon Udell
  Two interesting phrases / quotes: a) the use of "intentional tagging" and b) "…For psychological reasons, people will want to think in terms of monolithic containers that keep stuff in one place, and monolithic services that do everything related to that stuff. For architectural reasons, though, we’ll want to federate storage, and also decouple classes of service — so that storage, for example, is orthogonal to access control and authorization, which is orthogonal to social interaction."
  (categories: collaboration computing tagging socialsoftware information )