Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Dion Almaer at Ajaxian – Drag and drop file uploads in Gmail using just the specs: „Gmail started off with the awful input type=“file“ „add more“ typical solution that we all know and love. Then they added the ability to select multiple files via Flash…. and now they allow the ability to drag and drop…

Ash Maurya – 3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup: „While some learning happens during the requirements stage (driven by customer development activities), most of the learning happens only after we ship a release, with very little learning during development and QA. Even though building a product is the purpose of a startup,…

Neofonie tries to surf the iPad hype wave, but all they’ve been able to show so far was a fake WePad… Markus Goebel at TechCrunch Europe – The bizarre WePad launch – A chaotic press demo, only video of the UI: „The widget-oriented user interface runs smooth on Intel’s Atom Pineview-M chip […]. At least…

Eric Ries – Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem): „It takes some getting used to for most designers, though. They are not generally used to having their designs evaluated by their real-world impact. Remember that plenty of design organizations and design schools give out awards for designing products that never get built.…

Laura Klein – Pain Driven Design: „You see, no matter how much you love your product, unless it’s perfect, it’s causing pain to somebody. I’m sure it’s not on purpose. You’re not a monster. But something about your product is confusing or hard to use, and it’s driving at least one of your customers nuts.…

At O’Reilly Radar, James Turner interviews Brian Aker on post-Oracle MySQL: „Few companies have Google-sized datasets though. The average sites you see, they’re 10-20 gigs of data. Moving to a MapReduce solution for 20 gigs of data, or even for a terabyte or two of data, makes no sense. Using MapReduce with NoSQL solutions for…

Marc Hedlund at O’Reilly Radar – The iPad and computing’s middle ground: „I have to wonder where we’ll see iPads a few months or years from now. I bet some of the places they’ll show up aren’t yet obvious. […] Would you carry a laptop around a soccer field? Would you want to track game…

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.…