{"id":1265,"date":"2010-03-08T01:47:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T09:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/links-3-7-2010\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T01:47:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T09:47:29","slug":"links-3-7-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/links-3-7-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 3-7-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dashes.com\/anil\/2010\/02\/the-power-of-the-audience.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AnilDash+%28Anil+Dash%29\">The Power of the Audience &#8211; Anil Dash<\/a><br \/>      Great essay. Quote: &quot;&#8230;And the best use for realtime communications on the web is not to simply bring in the most recent information on a topic, but rather to make clear that others are experiencing or interacting with the same content at the same time.&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/realtime\">realtime<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/communication\">communication<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/ux\">ux<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/design\">design<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mike.teczno.com\/notes\/user-research-friday.html\">user research friday (tecznotes)<\/a><br \/>      Awesome article on product design, innovation, community management, crisis management and user research&#8230;. and a quote: &quot;&#8230;There&#8217;s an alternative to the Buzz model of foisting novelty on people, and I think that Flickr is a classic example of a better way to operate on the web. Flickr is famous inside of Yahoo and out for having a basically cavalier attitude to commonly-accepted wisdom about testing, assurance, predicability, and all-around maturity. What that means is that sometimes, Flickr screws up. This is the Flickr coloring contest, hastily assembled during a multiple hour, unexpected engineering emergency from 2006. Flickr had and has a world-class community management approach that can respond to crisis with humor. The coloring contest kept anxious community members busy while terrifying technological feats were performed to unclog the tubes.&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/stamen\">stamen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/innovation\">innovation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/userfocus\">userfocus<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/research\">research<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/flickr\">flickr<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/product-design\">product-design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/prototyping\">prototyping<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/crisis\">crisis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/community-management\">community-management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/design\">design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/ux\">ux<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.niallkennedy.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/html5-video-markup.html\">HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback<\/a><br \/>      Nice rundown on HTML5 and video and a quote: &quot;&#8230;Playback is only one component of the total video experience. You will need to develop analytics and advertising capabilities to match or exceed your current Flash experience. Advertisers don&#8217;t publish interactive advertisements in &lt;canvas&gt;. The high-CPM pre-roll and post-roll video advertisements we see today are based on a Flash ecosystem built up over the years. HTML5 video and your money maker of choice will need to find a way to co-exist (banner and text advertisements still work well) and drive your development budget. I expect to see better JavaScript libraries from the open-source community as well as advertising networks solve some of the problem in the near future, just like a suite of XHR handlers popped up once Ajax started to take off.&quot;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/html5\">html5<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/flash\">flash<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/browser\">browser<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paulbuchheit.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/if-your-product-is-great-it-doesnt-need.html\">Paul Buchheit: If your product is Great, it doesn&#8217;t need to be Good.<\/a><br \/>      Quote: Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else. Those three attributes define the fundamental essence and value of the product &#8212; the rest is noise. For example, the original iPod was: 1) small enough to fit in your pocket, 2) had enough storage to hold many hours of music and 3) easy to sync with your Mac (most hardware companies can&#8217;t make software, so I bet the others got this wrong). That&#8217;s it &#8212; no wireless, no ability to edit playlists on the device, no support for Ogg &#8212; nothing but the essentials, well executed.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/product-design\">product-design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/productmanagement\">productmanagement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/innovation\">innovation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/design\">design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/usability\">usability<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/startup\">startup<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ma.tt\/2010\/03\/pubsubhubbub\/\">PubSubHubBub &mdash; Matt Mullenweg<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &#8230; WP.com&rsquo;s goal of all its useful code being available to everyone<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/plugins\">plugins<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/innovation\">innovation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/iteration\">iteration<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/wordpress\">wordpress<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/pubsubhubbub\">pubsubhubbub<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ascher.ca\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/thunderbird-in-2010\/\">Thunderbird in 2010 @ david ascher<\/a><br \/>      Quote: If we have an idea for a change to an existing Thunderbird feature, we&rsquo;d like to roll it out first as an add-on, so that we can get feedback on early versions of the idea without having to incur all of the up-front costs of landing that change into the &ldquo;trunk&rdquo; builds. This should allow us to validate (or reject) ideas much faster. A great example of how this can work is the Personas feature, which matured as an add-on, and is now a standard (and awesome) feature of Firefox 3.6.<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/innovation\">innovation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/mozilla\">mozilla<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/software\">software<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/plugins\">plugins<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/iteration\">iteration<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power of the Audience &#8211; Anil Dash Great essay. Quote: &quot;&#8230;And the best use for realtime communications on the web is not to simply bring in the most recent information on a topic, but rather to make clear that others are experiencing or interacting with the same content at the same time.&quot; (categories: realtime &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/08\/links-3-7-2010\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 3-7-2010<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}