Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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…

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…

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…

Last week I wrote on Twitter: “Testing my theory that structured data exchange between apps/parties is best done in #XHTML+#RDFa. Human browseable & usable w/ XSLT, XPath.” This is the long version of that tweet: As a developer in the enterprise DAM software business, I’ve been doing a lot of integration work – with news…

Laurence Hart – Box Isn’t Disrupting Because of the Cloud: “Box is disrupting because they focus on the people using the application. SaaS is the the disruptive delivery mechanism that enables the spread of their solution. All IT vendors are being disrupted in this fashion, not just Content Management. Ease-of-use is driving adoption in a…