Autor: Tim Strehle

Can you read Derek Sivers’ book Anything You Want (from 2011) and not want to start a company? I’ve been following Derek Sivers’ blog since 2004 so I was familiar with many of the stories he’s telling in the book. But I still loved to read it. Favorite quotes: “Business is not about money. It’s…

Jeff Atwood – The Rule of Three: “We think we’ve built software that is a general purpose solution to some set of problems, but we are almost always wrong. […] To build something truly reusable, you must convince three different audiences to use it thoroughly first. […] One customer or user or audience might be…

Ralph Windsor on Digital Asset Management News – Telerik Add Digital Asset Management To Sitefinity: “This does mark a clear point of convergence between WCM and DAM – an outcome which has been talked about for some time and now looks to be definitely happening. It’s interesting to note similar trends with DAM systems starting…

Des Traynor – Product Strategy Means Saying No: “When your product gets traction, you’ll find yourself inundated with good ideas for features. These will come from your customers, your colleagues, and yourself. Because they’re good ideas, there’ll always be lots of reasons to say yes to them. Here’s 12 arguments in the style of Don…

As Tim Bray puts it: “There are lots of perfectly-legal reasons to want privacy. If you act all the time in a way that sensibly preserves yours, when one of those legal reasons becomes important you suddenly won’t be acting different in an attention-catching way.” Back in 2011, I already created an OpenPGP key, then…

Jonas Öberg – Developer’s corner: A distributed metadata registry: “Anyone should be able to run their own registry for their own works or works in which they have an interest. […] Standards such as ccREL provide a way in which a user can look up the rights metadata by visiting a URL associated with the…

Steve Pepper started a (lengthy) discussion in the LinkedIn Topic Maps Community group – If we were to redesign Topic Maps based on what we have learnt in the last decade, what would we do differently? Since LinkedIn groups are closed, I’m posting my comment here as well, in response to proposals to replace occurrences…