Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

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.…

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…