Autor: Tim Strehle

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…

Rob Walling – Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched: „If you’ve not working directly with at least two customers you have no idea if what you’re building is adding value. Or a total waste of time.“

Matt Mullenweg – 1.0 is the Loneliest Number: „Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen…

Werner Vogels of Amazon.com in a blog comment back in 2006: „The best way to completely automate operations is to have to developers be responsible for running the software they develop. It is painful at times, but also means considerable creativity gets applied to a very important aspect of the software stack. It also brings…

Rob Walling – It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent: „We’re entrepreneurs – we’re made to be passionate about ideas, and the next idea is always the easiest one to be passionate about. Yep, it’s tons of fun to think of ideas. And it’s easy. It’s also fun to start building them. And…

Jon Udell at O’Reilly Radar – Heds, deks, and ledes: „When a copy editor applies a real or virtual red pencil to a piece of journalistic prose, he or she is likely to use weird spellings: hed for head (headline), dek for deck (subhead), lede for lead (first paragraph). The idea is that these intentional…

Gojko Adzic – Seven key ideas of real quality assurance: „“You don’t get quality by testing it in, you get it by designing it in”, said [Tom] Gilb. Many business users never define what they actually want in a measurable way according to Gilb, which is why projects do not meet the expected levels of…