Ned Batchelder: They want Sandy (3)
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Rael Dornfest ran a company called Values of n which built two web services, stikkit and I Want Sandy, both of which seem to have been well designed and very well received. But the intellectual property of the company, and Rael himself, have been acquired by Twitter, and both services are shutting down with two weeks' notice. People are naturally upset (from a comment by ToddZ): Chalk me up, too, as disappointed in this rather ...
The State of Mac Gaming (1)
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“The truth is Steve Jobs doesn’t care about games.” * - John Carmack, 2008. When you have a company so secretive as Apple, who knows what they’re working on? The latest iDevice, a new online service, a time machine? Sadly all three of those seem more likely than anything to do with games. For years, the Mac has been considered a laughable platform for games. Hell, the Mac gamer as a statement is still an ...
Dumbing Down the Cloud (52)
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Rands in Repose: Dropbox is not dumb. In fact, Dropbox is quite smart because it lets me be dumb. ★
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Calvin Symes said:
Once you try Dropbox, you'll never stop using it. I have not exceeded my 2GB limit yet but I plan to.
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mac said:
Dropbox is like magic.
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Nick said:
right. being a collaboration tool, each new "functionality" causes ripples. it's exponential.
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trevoro said:
Good post until the dropbox diatribe.
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neal said:
2 GB for free. I signed up and will try it between my Windows laptop and Mac desktop. If all goes well, I might look at the 50 GB option.
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Chris said:
Been using Dropbox for a while. I like.
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Ryan Joseph said:
This is exactly what I'd write if I were a much better writer. I heart Dropbox.
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Noah said:
You should really try this...very intuitive.
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John Fishback said:
I trust this guy's recommendations on software more than anyone else I read. As such, I will be checking out Dropbox.
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Kishore Balakrishnan said:
cloud dropbox
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Mahesh CR said:
How to review a service and lessons in designing user experience.
TV Watching and Happiness (14)
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In one of those "well, duh!" moments the other day, I came across a headline on Slashdot that said Unhappy People Watch More TV. Given that I mostly stopped watching TV quite some time ago and consider it to be one of the more rude devices in our culture, I clicked thru to read about how others have discovered what I'd already guessed was true... A new study by sociologists at the University of Maryland ...
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AdiR1 said:
I always knew this much, open your eyes people!
Post-Election Thoughts: Equal but Not (5)
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I'm happy that Barack Obama won the election. I think it's time to stir things up a bit. What really bothers me is that fact that we still don't have equal voting in this country. We certainly have the technology to share vote counts quickly and efficiently, so who not just do that? Why screw around with an electoral college anymore? It seems disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst to call Obama's ...
Anger Management (13)
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If you’re interested in the ongoing financial calamity, or maybe even if you’re not, and whether or not you think you understand what happened, I highly recommend that you set aside a few minutes to read Michael Lewis’ remarkable The End. I find myself, off and on, suffering from unmanageably severe anger at the financial professionals who paid themselves millions for driving the economy into a brick wall at high speed, then walking away while ...
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Avi Flax said:
Hell Yeah!
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past said:
For a living, I’m an IT generalist and a Web specialist. For doing this, I get paid reasonably well and thus I have some savings to take care of. My conclusion: it is neither fair, nor is it sane, for me to hand them over to people who get paid ten times and up what I do. So I’m not gonna. If that means I have to deal my nest-egg out among real estate, gold, and cash under the mattress, so be it.
Information Architects » Blog Archive » Webapp Death Match: Google vs. Apple (23)
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With websites turning more and more into web applications, functionally as well as aesthetically, it’d be interesting to look at what makes a Web app work in terms of skinning. We start off by comparing two different approaches: HTML-skin vs. desktop-application-skin. In other words, Google versus Apple. GMail clearly looks and feels like an HTML-website, which aesthetically takes away some of what a regular user imagines to be an application. The new .Mac environment, MobileMe, ...
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Avi Flax said:
excellent comparison of web apps with a web feel vs those with a desktop feel.
Let G.M. go bankrupt (25)
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G.M. is in trouble, according to the latest news. The company has some contracts and other obligations that it can’t afford. What can the government do to help? Answer: The government has already done everything that it needs to in order to help G.M. The government established bankruptcy courts so that a company like G.M. can go through a Chapter 11 reorganization. During the Chapter 11 process, a judge has the power to adjust the ...
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Ade said:
"The stockholders, creditors, and employees of G.M. do not deserve to be spared the pain of the recession. The rest of America will be taking pay cuts, losing jobs, giving discounts to customers, etc. What is special about G.M. that they should be able to live as though 2008 never happened?"
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Kishore Balakrishnan said:
GM automotive oh ouch suffering pain
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Marcus said:
It's true. Not that I even own a car, but even if I did I wouldn't even consider a G.M. car. Let them go bankrupt. Also, end farm subsidies!
Build Anything (31)
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As an engineer, if you want to piss off someone who is asking you whether you can or can't build a thing, just say, "Given enough time, I can build anything". They’ll believe you're dodging the question, and they’ll think you're arrogant. As a means of negotiating a schedule or a feature, this answer is not helpful. You need to take the time to explain your thinking to this person. You need to walk them ...
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Kishore Balakrishnan said:
article essay optimistic engineer
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Aaron Egaas said:
Love it
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joshjs said:
Shared for Dobbs, from whom I think I picked up this mentality.
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Gavin said:
"Given enough time, I can build anything".
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JonB said:
during this cycle of FY 09 interlock discussions, found this quote resonated: As an engineer, if you want to piss off someone who is asking you whether you can or can't build a thing, just say, "Given enough time, I can build anything".
Benefits of Uniformity (4)
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Jon Udell: These are, of course, best practices for an ecosystem sustained by web standards like URI, HTTP, and XML. But it was wonderful to see those best practices clearly demonstrated in a PDC keynote. In many ways it feels like we are now about at the point in the evolution of the web where we were two decades ago with respect to GUIs. For that reason, it pleases me greatly to hear that Don ...
This is Outrageous. (1)
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The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a final go ahead to the creation of a Jerusalem museum dedicated to tolerance and coexistence, rejecting appeals by Muslims who object to construction because the site covers part of an ancient Muslim cemetery. A court statement said judges ruled that since no objections had been lodged in 1960 when the city put a parking lot over a small section of the graveyard they would ...
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The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a final go ahead to the creation of a Jerusalem museum dedicated to tolerance and coexistence, rejecting appeals by Muslims who object to construction because the site covers part of an ancient Muslim cemetery. A court statement said judges ruled that since no objections had been lodged in 1960 when the city put a parking lot over a small section of the graveyard they would ...
Restlet 1.1.0 released! (3)
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Since the launch of Restlet 1.0 in April 2007, we have been working hard to prepare this new version. To protect your investment in existing code, we have maintained the initial API design, extending it where necessary and always ensuring a direct if not transparent migration path. Here is a selection of the most exciting new features: Broader and deeper HTTP support with features such as partial downloads, resumable uploads or content integrity validation. Best ...
Target micromedia (33)
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What we’ve found: When it comes to spreading a story, the mainstream media isn’t as important as the micromedia. Being written up at the right blogs has had way more impact for us than the press we’ve gotten in big-circulation publications. Traditional media is losing ground “10 reasons why newspapers won’t reinvent news” [via JK] explains why papers are having a tough time keeping up with the web: Newsrooms don’t trail the leading edge simply ...
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Alex said:
The merit in this post exists solely in the phrase: "...resentful Luddites struggling with the complexities of email."
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