Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Todd Lappin – A 2.5 Year-Old Uses an iPad for the First Time: „My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment.“ (Via John Muellerleile.)

Tim Bray – What’s New in Tablets: „Speed Is A Feature · For a 1Ghz device with limited memory, the iPad is unreasonably fast. I suspect this accounts for a whole bunch of the “Wow!” reaction the iPad obviously provokes.“

Stephen Fry at TIME – The iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again?: „It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models.…

David Strom – How friends help friends on the Internet: The Ross Greenberg Story: „Then, early this year, the marriage crumbled, and he found himself in a nursing home, confined to a motorized wheelchair, his computer left behind, without even a phone of his own. While his mind was still clear, he was cut off…

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Clay Shirky – The Collapse of Complex Business Models: „Some video still has to be complex to be valuable, but the logic of the old media ecoystem, where video had to be complex simply to be video, is broken. Expensive bits of video made in complex ways now compete with cheap bits made in simple…

Theresa Regli at CMS Watch – Core application versus corollary applications in DAM: „Where the confusion often starts is when, as is often the case with DAM products, #2 [the external or „self-service“ application] looks completely different from #1 [the „core“ application]. This is where it’s important to note that most DAM products are a…

Cal Evans at php|architect – The Number One Developer Productivity Tool: „If you require your developers to work onsite, the number one productivity tool you provide for them is a door that closes (well, 4 walls and a ceiling to go with it). Given control of their environment, developers can reach their peak productivity most…

„Tsung is an open-source multi-protocol distributed load testing tool. It can be used to stress HTTP, WebDAV, SOAP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, LDAP and Jabber/XMPP servers.“ (Via Nat Torkington at O’Reilly Radar.)

Joshua Duhl at We Speak Digital Media – The Importance of Usability in Digital Asset Management: „By contrast the other DAM systems used an approach that took into account the user’s role, permissions or privileges to inform the UI what to display and what to hide. The user interface was tailored to the role, set…