Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Michael Lopp – Drift: “See, as system thinkers, we’re trying to build a model that, well, explains everything. To assist in our discovery of everything, we’ve built ingenious ways of gathering data. Whether it’s a feed reader, a set of bookmark tab groups, Facebook, Twitter, or a news aggregator, we’ve constructed a personal machine that…

In my previous post Web of information vs DAM, DM, CM, KM silos, I asked: “When a photographer’s phone number changes, will you update it in your DAM system? How many places will you have to update it in the DAM – is it stored in a single place, or has it been copied into…

Dan Gillmor – Learning about, and deploying IndieWeb tools: “Already, using easily deployed tools, I’m using this blog to create posts that show up on Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+. […] What I’ve also done, using the IndieWeb plugin — created by a member of the growing community dedicated to making this all work — is…

Gerry McGovern – The complexity-simplicity trade off: “Many of the systems organizations give to their employees are usability monstrosities. The reason for this is that senior management just doesn’t care. It has abdicated its responsibility when it comes to technology. It sits there listening to presentations about huge savings if only huge amounts of money…

I have spent years of my life making our software work with other software, and I think we have a problem: The “enterprise” is managing overlapping information in disparate systems that don’t interoperate well. There’s lots of system flavors: DAM (interesting stuff like photos, videos, articles). DM (boring stuff like forms, business letters, emails). CM…

Today, our company Digital Collections has moved from the office in Hamburg, Wendenstr. 130 into another part of Hamburg, Hindenburgstr. 49. Here’s some pictures I have taken in the old office during the last years. The new office is more modern and practical, but I’ll miss the lovely historical building, a former chocolate factory built…

Reusable user interface components for Web development are trending. I’ve been thinking about them for quite some time now (see JavaScript components from almost a year ago). Now that we’re building a new UI, we need to finally decide on something and start using it! While we’ve done single page Web apps in the past,…