Links: 7-20-2008

iPhoneWebDev – Blog » Blog Archive » Making the Xenagia *Forums* iPhone Friendly
Blog post writting by the iPhoneWebDev guys on how they made vBulletin iPhone friendly.
(categories: iphone vbulletin mobile css customization )
Information Arbitrage: Monitor110: A Post Mortem
2nd of 7 deadly sings: instead of having product management as the advocate for the customer and the product evangelist, we had technology running the show in a vacuum.
(categories: business entrepreneurship failure startup monitor110 postmortem productmanagement )
PostRank – PostRank
The 5 Cs of Engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, clicking. Our popularity algorithm in Clearspace will / needs to learn this.
(categories: scoring relevance popularity postrank )

Links: 7-19-2008

In Surprise, 2 Tech Titans Disappoint – NYTimes.com
Eighty-five percent of Microsoft’s revenue now comes from overseas. Wow.
(categories: microsoft global business revenue earnings )

Enterprise Portals Are Popping (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
Some good points about watching users vs. asking users and the first time I’ve heard the term narrowcasting.
(categories: intranet usability portal portals design jakobnielsen testing )

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Dark Launches, Gradual Ramps and Isolation: Testing the Scalability of New Features on your Web Site
dark launch: the feature is enabled on the site but not actually shown in the user interface. gradual ramp up: you release the feature set to small groups of users so you can see how users actually interact with the feature for real.
(categories: deployment development performance process scalability testing )

camping hacks | Ask Metafilter
Great camping tips, best one: use reese’s instead of regular chocolate in your smores.
(categories: adventure outdoors hiking camping kids )

Davenetics* : Do What You’re Great At
Quote: Be the place I browse for news, search for news, share news, annotate news, IM news, SMS news, listen to and watch news, eat and drink news, shoot news into my veins, snort news off the tits of more news. News goddammit, news.
(categories: news yahoo strategy business )