Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Dave Winer – What I wanted, part II: “This was a secret of mine, because most of my competitors not only didn’t listen to their users, but they didn’t even use their own products. […] Be both a user and a developer. That way you understand users, and you can make their dreams come true,…

Dave Winer – Respect: “I respect people who ship software that’s open to competition, and then write specs to show people how to compete with them. It’s just like the web. People come back to places that send them away.”

Scott Adams – Rewarding Work: “Whenever you see the x-factor in someone’s output – that little extra something that turns the good into the awesome – it’s a marker for intrinsic motivation. […] To get to awesome you need to think you might be changing the world, saving lives, redeeming your reputation, attracting the mate…

Craig Malloy on CMS Wire – The Service Economy and the New Role of the Enterprise CMS: “Employees are choosing their own productivity applications and the adoption rates are putting even some of the most successful enterprise applications to shame. The traditional enterprise content management market can do little to stop this. And few consumer-workers…

Matt Mullen at Real Story Group – Big Experience Management? Coping With The Hype Cycle: “There is something really important to consider here; namely that the there is an increasing gap between the what vendors are pushing as important and what real customer use cases actually demand. […] It surely makes sense to revisit possible…

Matthias Marschall – Why Agile Fails: “Agile will begin casting bright spotlights on these weak spots in your development process. The rug that everyone has been sweeping under for the past decade is suddenly lifted and the dark, scurrying truths see the light of day. People don’t care much for harsh truths, and when they…

“Redactor is the most fantastic yet beautiful and easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor on jQuery. It is lightning fast, small, scalable, and powerful.”

Tony Byrne at the Real Story Group – Beware user experience overreach in your website overhaul: “In lieu of shelfware, you can end up with shelfscreens: planned user experiences that you never roll out. […] 1. Here’s the operational maturity and ongoing staff education you’ll require […] 3. Here’s the metadata savvy (and consistency!) you’ll…

Jon Moore – Using HTML as the Media Type for your API: “There are actually a variety of reasons I prefer using HTML: rich semantics hypermedia support already standardized tooling support” Update: See my post on HTML Hypermedia API resources.

Dianne Kennedy – Finally — an XML Markup Solution for Design-Based Publishers: Introducing the PRISM Source Vocabulary: “Until the tablet-publishing tsunami hit, design-based publications were able to justify their labor-intensive design-based publication process. […] We have come to believe the Source is the Solution. We must capture and store platform-agnostic content as early as possible.…