September 2007
110 posts
FeedHub Launches - Individualized RSS Feed Service →
FeedHub launches today at DEMOfall. It creates an “individualized RSS feed” that aims to filter relevant posts from a set of feed sources. FeedHub will discover new memes for you and learn “meme weights” by noticing which posts you click on and interact with.
Carl Howe on Apple’s iPhone Marketing Strategy →
Carl Howe is a very smart dude:
Consumers value what they pay for. They don’t value things the perceive as free. And that’s the marketing blunder the US mobile phone market has bought into over the last 10 to 15 years. By bundling “free” and generic phones with cell phone service, mobile carriers have devalued both the brand values of the handset makers and their own services.
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Calendar Mashups Anyone? →
Posted by Jun Yang, Google Data APIs Team When Google Maps was introduced in early 2005, the world took notice of the uniquely new capabilities it offered. However, more significantly, a group of shrewd developers quickly understood what new opportunities the Maps API opened up to them and started to create Maps mashups showing, for example, the locations of gas stations offering the lowest...
Strategy Letter VI →
IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony. Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they’re probably trying to wipe out the memory of the original Lotus Symphony, which had been hyped as the Second Coming and which fell totally flat. It was the software equivalent of Gigli.
In the late 80s, Lotus was trying very hard to figure out what to do...
Feature: Read more ... about progressive... →
Progressive disclosure is a method of revealing the details of a feature on an on-demand basis, so that the basic elements of the feature appear by default while the less used or more advanced elements are hidden. These elements are usually just a click or two away, so they remain readily available, but they’re hidden by default to avoid interface clutter for the majority of users who do not need...
Trailer: ‘No Country For Old Men’ →
Modern-day Western from Joel and Ethan Coen. Can’t wait. The Coen brothers are on my list of filmmakers who I’d go see a movie they made about paint drying.
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Secrets to Amazon's success →
High Scalability offers some secrets to Amazon’s success based on interviews and writings of early employees. Some of the choice bits are below.
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Teams are small. They are assigned authority and empowered to solve a problem as a service in anyway they see fit.
Work from the customer backward. Focus on value you want to deliver
for the customer.
Force developers to focus on value delivered to...
The three kinds of platforms you meet on the... →
[Title with sincere apologies to Mitch Albom and his wonderful book.]
One of the hottest of hot topics these days is the topic of Internet platforms, or platforms on the Internet. Web services APIs (application programming interfaces), web services protocols like REST and SOAP, the new Facebook platform, Amazon’s web services efforts including EC2 and S3, lots of new startups talking...
Video Response to L. Paul Bremer's Op-Ed Article →
Why You Should Write Things Down →
Massive Attack – Heat Miser →
Thievery Corporation – Treasures →
Thievery Corporation – Meu Destino (My Destiny) →
Sarah Vaughan – Summertime (Ufo remix) →
Thievery Corporation – The Richest Man in Babylon →
Massive Attack – Live With Me (Radio edit) →
Thievery Corporation & David Byrne – The Heart's a... →
Gunjan, Sleeping Wonder & Thievery Corporation –... →
Massive Attack – Sly →
Thievery Corporation – Interlude →
Massive Attack – Future Proof →
Massive Attack – Risingson →
Massive Attack – Five Man Army →
Massive Attack – Special Cases →
Massive Attack – Blue Lines →
Billie Holiday – Don't Explain (Dzihan and Kamien... →
Thievery Corporation & Patrick de Santos – Sol... →
Thievery Corporation – Exilio (Exile) →
Thievery Corporation – Un Simple Histoire (A... →
Carmen McRae – how long has this been going on?... →
Dinah Washington – is you is or is you ain't my... →
Massive Attack – Euro Child →
Ella Fitzgerald – Wait 'Til You See Him (De-Phazz... →
Thievery Corporation – So Com Voce →
Thievery Corporation & Verny Varela – Ambicion... →
Thievery Corporation – A Gentle Dissolve →
Massive Attack – Karmacoma →
Thievery Corporation – DC 3000 →
Massive Attack – Safe from Harm →
Massive Attack – Better Things →
Thievery Corporation & Gunjan – The Supreme... →
Massive Attack – Everywhen →
Massive Attack – Group Four →
Thievery Corporation – Shadows of Ourselves →
Massive Attack – Three →
Massive Attack – Angel →
Thievery Corporation – Facing East →
Justin Timberlake – LoveStoned/I Think She Knows... →
Tenacious D – Beelzeboss (The Final Showdown) →
Family Guy – The "Q" Man Loves Nobody →