Jahr: 2009

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Thinking beyond the RFP: „Don’t ask „How will you be able to handle XYZ?“ unless you’re willing to tolerate answers like „Our standard user interface allows a user to do this“ or „our application programming interface allows the product to be easily extended so as to accomplish this.“ Instead,…

Eric Ries – The Steve Jobs method: „Having so few products means Apple can dedicate enormous resources to each project once it gets the green light. But it also means they have to be very careful kill projects if they are not trending towards something great. Which comes to the second major principle: halt work…

Aral Balkan – My Sys-Con Nightmare: „It all started at the end of March, 2009, when I discovered that I was listed as an author on a site called Ulitzer. They had used my name as a subdomain on their site […] and the site presented a photo of me, stating that I had been…

Nick Bradbury – If You Want to Write Useful Software, You Have to Do Tech Support: „If you really want to write useful software, stop spending all your time keeping up with technology. Don’t worry if your resume isn’t filled with the latest buzzwords. Instead, invest your time in talking with your customers. They don’t…

Paul Graham – Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule: „I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day. A meeting commonly blows at least half a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon. But in addition there’s sometimes a cascading effect. If I know the afternoon is going to be broken up, I’m slightly less…

Rich Rosen at O’Reilly Broadcast – Gmail’s Labels Now More Like Folders: A Good Thing?: „The common wisdom is that marking things with tags or labels (so you can later search for them by tag) is better than organizing them hierarchically into folders. […] The problem is that people don’t seem to „get“ labels or…

Derek Sivers – Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.: „Four different tests of 63 people found that those who kept their intentions private were more likely to achieve them than those who made them public and were acknowledged by others. Once you’ve told people of your intentions, it gives…

Doc Searls – Beyond celebrity obsession: „The Net maximizes the endlessness of choice about how we spend our time. It also maximizes many kinds of productiveness. Nearly all the code we are using, right now, to do stuff on the Net, was written by many collaborators across many distances. Some were obsessing about what they…

Mark Sigal – Nine Essential Truths for Entrepreneurial Success: „Make sure that your product planning process is defined in a way that codifies specific use cases supported by clear workflows (in terms of click steps), backed by wireframes that express same. This is the ultimate ‚rubber meets the road‘ moment when you realize that you…

Tim Bray – The Internet’s Payload: „Social networking gives me the warm-and-fuzzies and YouTube shows me what happened today in Iran, but action only comes from understanding and understanding only comes from explanation and explanation only happens in words. […] And by the way, I’d rather have the text of Clay’s speech than the video.…