Autor: Tim Strehle

Stijn Debrouwere – Looking for a co-conspirator: „Drupal and WordPress are perfectly fine for publishing to the web. What we want to build is a content hub for managing the gloriously messy editorial process. A content hub that loves structured data and semantic annotations. A launch pad for pushing content to any platform you can…

Anonymous guest post at Gia Lyons – An unhealthy obsession with organization: „I want everyone to think about the way they use documents today, your SharePoint sites, your shared drives with team project folder structures, your Atlassian Wikis. You’ve invested a lot of energy into finely crafting an organizational structure that will last a thousand…

Leala Abbott – The Analog-ists Revenge: How analog thinking can impact DAM: „Digital Asset Managers understand that every digital asset we choose comes with a cost (resources it will take to manage, upkeep, file formats, migrations etc), therefore we are extremely judicious with both what we keep (the assets) and how we keep it (the…

Andrew Stellman – Inflict bad UX on users you secretly hate: „You’d be surprised at how often programmers are completely unaware that they have serious UX [user experience] and usability problems. Just a few days ago, someone told me, “Our users are using our software, so we don’t have any usability issues!” One of my…

Signal vs. Noise cites David Heinemeier Hansson – Quote: The number one competitor we have in our…: „People are organizing through email. They’re keeping track of their notes through email. They’re doing all this stuff through email. And email is incredibly simple, basically just a text box that you can send to other people or…

Linda Stone at O’Reilly Radar – Why „Delivering Happiness“ is a must read: „At many companies, software developers are rewarded for knocking out the list of features and cranking toward the release date with no emphasis on the quality of the feature being checked. Does it work? Check. Tests ran? Check. Is anyone asking if…

Seth Godin – Sure, but what’s the hard part?: „Hard is not about sweat or time, hard is about finishing the rare, valuable, risky task that few complete. Don’t tell me you want to launch a line of spices but don’t want to make sales calls to supermarket buyers. That’s the hard part.“

Google News Blog – Credit where credit is due: „News publishers and readers both benefit when journalists get proper credit for their work. That can be difficult, with news spreading so quickly and many websites syndicating articles to others. That’s why we’re experimenting with two new metatags for Google News: syndication-source and original-source. Each of…

Bianca Male tells the story of Sachin Agarwal at Business Insider – 8 Management Lessons I Learned Working At Apple: „A tech company should be run by engineers, not managers. […] From its lack of bureaucracy within projects, to its engineer-focused culture, to its emphasis on passionate and loyal employees, the huge company has maintained…

Simon Phipps at ComputerWorld UK – The End Of The Road For Web Services: „In the end Web Services became an intranet tool for most uses, rendering the „W“ incorrect even if WS* will be with enterprise developers for years to come as a kind of architectural COBOL. Whatever other origins it had, the whole…