- A Whole Lotta Nothing: Q&A with John Scharffenberger: First wine, then chocolate, and now … tofu? :: The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing.
Quote: "I speak a lot at business schools, and I ask how many people are there to make money. And then I say why don’t you just quit school and be drug dealers then? Because business school is about making things for people. That’s why you should be here." Love that.
(categories: entrepreneurship engineering business innovation ) - Developer Relations Newsletter, May 2010 – Atlassian Developer Blog
Good stuff from Atlassian wrt plugins, developer community, documentation, etc..
(categories: plugins platform marketplace appstore ) - Hacker News | This is Bret Taylor, CTO of Facebook.There are a couple of things I want to clar…
Facebook moves TOS into robots.txt, good move.
(categories: tos robots.txt facebook standards crawlers searchengine ) - Best Buy IdeaX | Exchange your ideas, vote, and discuss. Let’s make it better.
Best Buy built an ideation site on top of bbyidx.com, includes geo-location stuff.
(categories: ideas ideation bestbuy innovation ) - Android Developers Blog: Future-Proofing Your App
Good stuff on how the Android team is working on compatibility between apps and devices.
(categories: compatibility api android mobile platform plugins ) - Tuning GreenHopper on IE – Atlassian Developer Blog
Done using Dynatrace, we should be doing this.
(categories: ie performance tuning javascript ajax ) - Raible Designs | Mountain Biking in Moab
Someday…
(categories: mtb vacation ) - Web 3.0 on Vimeo
Good stuff on semantic web, big data, etc..
(categories: bigdata semanticweb semantic datamining ) - Stock and flow « Snarkmarket
But I actually think stock and flow is the master metaphor for media today. Here’s what I mean: Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people that you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time.
(categories: economics flow twitter blogging ) - Google Lays Out Its Mobile User Experience Strategy – Mobile Blog – InformationWeek
Rechis said that when Google plans to launch a mobile application, it looks at the potential app through six layers: 1. Understanding users, anywhere, anytime 2. Fits in your pocket 3. More personal than the PC 4. Consistency across modes 5. Localization is intensified 6. Integrated devices, modes, products
(categories: google mobile ux ui )
All posts by ajohnson
Links: 6-19-2010
Links: 6-14-2010
- Superfeedr : A social filtering algorithm
Another name for Jive’s Social Inbox: "social filtering"
(categories: filtering algorithms socialsoftware ) - The Satir Change Model
How change happens organizationally.
(categories: change process satir-change-model ) - Android Developers Blog: On Android Compatibility
Quote: "… This is where the Compatibility Test Suite comes in. The CTS is a collection of more than 20,000 test cases that check Android device implementations for known issues. Device makers run the CTS on their devices throughout the development process, and use it to identify and fix bugs early. This helps ensure that the builds they finally ship are as bug-free as possible."
(categories: android mobile api platform ) - Evo: Initial Thoughts « random($foo)
Super thorough review of the HTC Evo.
(categories: mobile phone android sprint htc ) - mir.aculo.us with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive » Making an iPad HTML5 App & making it really fast
interesting notes on making a super fast iPad HTML5 application.
(categories: html html5 css javascript performance ipad mobile )
Links: 6-8-2010
- Notes from the Agile UX Retreat at Cooper – Anders Ramsay.com
Quote: "… The idea that UX should be more a competency and less a role resonated strongly. Alan likened the software team to a sports team on a field, in which everyone has set roles but their actual work can be fluid across the field/project."
(categories: ui ux agile softwareengineering software design )
Links: 6-7-2010
- Why I Sold Zappos
Quote: "… To address that, we’ve begun tracking employee relationships. When employees log in to their computers, we ask them to look at a picture of a random employee and then ask them how well they know that person — the options include "say hi in the halls," "hang out outside of work," and "we’re going to be longtime friends." We’re starting to keep track of the number and strength of cross-departmental relationships — and we’re planning a class on the topic. My hope is that we can have more employees who plan to be close friends."
(categories: culture entrepreneurship business )
Links: 6-1-2010
- tech ramblings » Blog Archive » Socorro: Mozilla’s Crash Reporting System
Mind boggling # of crashes that Mozilla sees on a weekly basis and a cool story about how they’re going to evolve the system to handle more data.
(categories: bigdata mozilla hadoop hdfs storage debugging ) - Flickr Mobile
The Flickr mobile web app.
(categories: mobile ) - Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine
Aardvark stats: * 87.7% of questions sent to Aardvark got answered (very high answer rate!) * 75.0% of users who asked Aardvark a question also answered a question for someone else (very high participation rate!) * 70.4% of answer feedback had a rating of ‘good’ as opposed to ‘ok’ or ‘bad’ (high quality!)
(categories: social-search search socialsoftware aardvark ) - Forget Google, social search is all about mobile – O’Reilly Radar
Some interesting notes on social search, mobile, Aardvark and some of the behind the scenes stuff at ChaCha.
(categories: mobile social-search socialsoftware search ) - Building Web sites optimized for the iPhone and Android OS 2 – InsideRIA
Good stuff for non-native application developers.
(categories: mobile apple android webkit html5 ) - Darius Goes West: Play It Forward Contest.
Links: 5-25-2010
- ongoing by Tim Bray · HTML5 and the Web
Quote: "HTML5 promises to broaden the class of application problems you can solve with HTML, providing a good user experience while saving time and money. But that’s all; it’s not better because it’s “Web Technology”, it’s better because it’s better.Except when it isn’t. Right now, there are certain classes of applications, particularly on mobile devices, where you’re going to get a better result by building a native app. Maybe even by building two or three native apps, for iPhone and Android and webOS. This is entirely orthogonal to the “Webbiness” (or not) of the technologies.
And another point: building a really hot HTML5 application that takes advantage of the nice new features is not exactly easy. Even assuming that you’re using one of the dozens of clever toolkits, it’s still not a slam-dunk. In fact, compared to the level of support and tooling you get from XCode on the Apple side or the various pieces of Android IDE-ware, HTML5 development is a major pain in the ass."
(categories: mobile html html5 software ria )
Links: 5-23-2010
- A Form of Madness – Dive Into HTML5
Coolest stuff I’ve read yet about HTML5.
(categories: html5 html mobile ) - Code as Craft » Quantum of Deployment
Notes on how etsy does deployments.
(categories: deployment cloud continuous-integration ops ) - Top 10 Tech Trends for 2010 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Couple of good nuggets in here: social mentioned twice, real time data and the "… new software stack". Jive at the center of a bunch of these.
(categories: jive socialsoftware bigdata realtime )
Links: 5-11-2010
- My Obsession With The Product
Quote: "The great companies that I’ve been an investor in share a common trait – the founder/CEO is obsessed with the product. Not interested, not aware of, not familiar with, but obsessed. Every discussion trends back toward the product. All of the conversations about customer are really about how the customer uses the product and the value the product brings the customer. The majority of the early teams are focused entirely on the product, including the non-engineering people. Product, product, product."
(categories: startups entrepreneurship product-product-product focus obsessing )
Links: 5-4-2010
- Fraser Speirs – Blog – Back In
Quote: "iPhone OS is the first mass-market operating system where consumers are no longer afraid to install software on their computers (I’m not counting read-only media software platforms like games consoles here). In a conversation recently, a friend recounted a scene that he passed by in an airport. Four fifty-something women were sitting at a cafe table discussing the latest apps they had downloaded on their iPod touches. New software can’t break your iPhone OS device and, if you don’t like it, total removal is only a couple of taps away."
(categories: apple iphone appstore platform ipad operating-system )