- You’re the ones – Marc Hedlund’s blog
Quote: "Steve let the applause go on for a little bit, then, with much effort, settled down the crowd. When things got quiet, the first thing he said was: "That’s an awful lot of applause considering that you guys are the ones who do all the work."
(categories: apple leadership management culture ) - Vic Gundotra – Google+ – Icon Ambulance One Sunday morning, January 6th, 2008 I was…
Great story.
(categories: apple steve-jobs culture design ) - Why Do You Like Bad News?
Quote: "We used to design things to take us to the moon, now we design things to keep us from getting out of bed."
(categories: design socialsoftware culture )
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Links: 8-15-2011
- Big Data in Real-Time at Twitter
Looks like a year old preso on Twitter arch.
(categories: architecture performance scalability twitter mysql lucene )
Links: 8-8-2011
- Nick Farina – An iOS Developer Takes on Android
Great summary on Android vs. iOS dev.
(categories: mobile android java ios iphone ) - Twitter / @tonysphere: My fav insight from @true …
Great quote: "… measure momentum in days, priorities in months and vision in years."
(categories: business engineering management )
Links: 8-3-2011
- John Mayer 2011 Clinic – “Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself” – Berklee Blogs
Quote: "Mayer began the clinic explaining that, although the industry has changed with the advent of social media, creating music requires the same discipline it always has, if not more discipline to combat the added distraction of online promotion. Referring to the allure of having an instant, albeit often shallow and fleeting, online audience, John Mayer cautioned against seeking out “joy in little, tiny statements – little, tiny applause hits.”
(categories: socialsoftware culture noise focus music gtd )
Links: 7-25-2011
- Chosen – a JavaScript plugin for jQuery and Prototype – makes select boxes better
Really really nice, too bad browsers don’t have stuff like this built in.
(categories: javascript jquery uiux html ) - Competition
Brad Feld on competition: "Be the First Mover, Resegment If You Aren’t In The Top Three, Create the Best Product, Provide the Best Customer Experience, Have a Long Term Strategy, Understand the Ecosystem You Are Competing In, Obsessively Focus On While Ignoring Your Competition, Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer"
(categories: competition business entrepreneurship )
Links: 7-18-2011
- ServInt VPS – Managed Virtual Private Server – VPS Hosting
Need to compare against rimuhosting.com
(categories: hosting vps )
Links: 7-14-2011
- Legal Defense – Widget Press
Unbelievable.
(categories: patents trolls macrosolve-sucks )
Links: 7-12-2011
- Jeff Bezos On Innovation: Stubborn On Vision; Flexible On Details | Techdirt
Great quote and potential style of management: "… If you invent frequently and are willing to fail, then you never get to that point where you really need to bet the whole company. AWS also started about six or seven years ago. We are planting more seeds right now, and it is too early to talk about them, but we are going to continue to plant seeds. And I can guarantee you that everything we do will not work. And, I am never concerned about that…. We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details…."
(categories: innovation culture management amazon failure entrepreneurship ) - Just add points? What UX can (and cannot) learn from games
Great preso on games + social.
(categories: games social socialdesign socialsoftware gamification ux ) - Foodspotting | FAQ | How does the rating and reputation system work?
Cool site, nice little reputation system they’ve put together.
(categories: reputation socialdesign ux games gamification ) - The Decline of the Online Message Board – NYTimes.com
Interesting to note that more and more message boards are disappearing, more conversations going to Facebook + Twitter.
(categories: social socialsoftware discussions facebook twitter ) - High Scalability – High Scalability – TripAdvisor Architecture – 40M Visitors, 200M Dynamic Page Views, 30TB Data
Some interesting notes on how tripadvisor has built out their team.
(categories: architecture scalability scaling culture )
Links: 7-11-2011
- OSQA | The Open Source Q&A System
Nice looking Q&A, open source, GPL.
(categories: collaboration opensource osqa )
Links: 7-10-2011
- visitsteve.com/404.html
Awesome.
(categories: 404 art )