Autor: Tim Strehle

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.…

Gojko Adzic – Eric Evans: Why do efforts to replace legacy systems fail?: „Starting from a proposition that “not all of a large system will be well designed”, Evans suggested identifying and focusing on the core domain – a very small piece of software that actually makes the system really worth writing, something that brings…

Kas Thomas at CMS Watch – Vignette bets big on beta-SaaS: „For getting a handle on major new functionalities — and for finding out quickly whether your content contributors, admins, power users, and developers are going to run into any showstoppers — the VVE approach will likely prove useful. Meanwhile, it’s a potential cost- and…

Jeff Atwood – Url Shorteners: Destroying the Web Since 2002: „The web is little more than a maze of hyperlinks, and if you can insert yourself as an intermediary in that maze, you can transform or undermine the experience in fundamental ways. […] Every tiny URL is another baby step towards destroying the web as…

Tim O’Reilly quotes Jeff Bezos – Jeff Bezos at Wired Disruptive by Design conference: „You’ve got to be willing to learn new skills if your customers need you to have those skills.“

jQuery TOOLS – The missing UI library for the Web: „What you really need are tabs, tooltips, accordions, overlays, high usability, striking visual effects and all those „web 2.0“ goodies that you have seen on your favourite websites. This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today’s website.“

Aaron Greenspan – Why Google Bothered to Appeal a $761 Small Claims Case (and Won): „Google has more access to information about people than virtually any company on the planet, yet despite its vast resources, it found it more prudent to fabricate disparaging innuendo about me before a judge. The sole purpose was to damage…

Enterprise Search – Enterprise search doesn’t mean mortgaging the farm: „So before you decide you need to budget a half million dollars or more for search, consider what Walter Underwood, chief architect of Ultraseek and now search evangelist at Netflix once told me. Paraphrasing: “You can download Solr then spend a ton of money customizing…