December 2011
86 posts
“Retailers need to add value over the Amazon experience, in ways that a purely...”
– To beat Amazon, brick and mortar retailers need to raise prices
“If your writing goes up exclusively behind a paywall, you can’t ‘break’ a news...”
– Was 2011 the year of the great paywall? Not exactly — Tech News and Analysis
“Nearly every IT department and most businesses are focused on the wrong class of...”
– Pay Your Programmers $200/hour
Jeff Rock: I'll tell you why movie revenue is... →
jeffrock:
Roger Ebert: The theater experience. Moviegoers above 30 are weary of noisy fanboys and girls. The annoyance of talkers has been joined by the plague of cell-phone users, whose bright screens are a distraction. Worse, some texting addicts get mad when told they can’t use their cell phones.
Web Reflection: Learning From 2011 →
A lot of good stuff in there.
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“IE9 Mobile is an epic fail when it comes to User Interaction.
There is no bloody...”
– The bitter truth.
Via: Web Reflection: Learning From 2011
“Compromise is the inevitable and direct result of a lack of preparation. It...”
– Andy Rutledge - The Design Pro Show episode 10
“Knapp jeder Fünfte, der im Sommer 2011 noch als Investmentbanker tätig war, kann...”
– Massiver Stellenabbau: Jetzt fliegen die Banker raus - FAZ
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“Windows Phone 7 doesn’t sound like a new platform. It sounds like an old one....”
– I agree!
Via: Daring Fireball Linked List: The Windows Phone Problem in Three Words: Way Too Late.
“Bing extracts the CSS, JS and images from the original download, and saves the...”
– That’s absolutely crazy wonderful!
Via: Performance Calendar » Mobile UI performance considerations
“Over the next three years the tablet will become the primary tool for personal...”
– I would say that it’s the smartphone instead, but this might also depend on the definition of personal computing.
Via: USC Annenberg | Is America at a digital turning point?
“The hardest part about building a 10x team is that who you need next is a moving...”
– Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers « Avichal’s Blog
“While fund managers continue to debate whether they should buy Amazon (AMZN) at...”
– Zaky on Apple’s Next Quarter: The Biggest Earnings Blowout in History
“The Web is cluttered, slow, and the content doesn’t have enough room to breathe.”
– Flipboard CEO Mike McCue Live at Dive Into Mobile - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD
“Gamification” treats people like children — children who need to be manipulated,...”
– ‘Gamification’ sucks
“We keep people signed in until they explicitly sign out. So, hopefully people...”
– new-approaches-to-designing-login-forms
“Software development is relatively easy. Taste and user experience, on the other...”
– More Thoughts on Magazines and Publishing on the iPad — carpeaqua by Justin Williams
“Being able to get your content to your network of friends is not only a good...”
– More Thoughts on Magazines and Publishing on the iPad — carpeaqua by Justin Williams
“I understand the desire to offer a unified experience across multiple platforms,...”
– Texture
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“The HTTP Archive charted the growth of the average web page and found that...”
– Ooops: Hold those caps: The average web page is now almost 1MB — Tech News and Analysis
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“Nach dem gängigen SMS-Hinweis auf das aufgebrauchte Inklusiv-Volumen bleibt...”
– Das ist doch mal eine richtig gute Aktion!
Telekom-Tarifoption: Datenvolumen nachkaufen statt Drosselung | Mac & i
“Firefox 9 includes Type Inference, a feature that Mozilla says can boost...”
– That’s a major milestone for JS performance.
Firefox 9 now available, brings major JavaScript performance boost and OS X Lion swiping
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“In the PC era, “next year” was going to be the year of desktop Linux. In the...”
– Evil ;)
Daring Fireball Linked List: ‘Next Year’
“It’ll probably be faster for me to write my own little tool for it than to...”
– Trouble in Node.js paradise: The mess that is npm - Mikkel Høgh
“Riesterverträge sind so kalkuliert, dass ein Versicherter weit über 90 Jahre alt...”
– Riester-Rente: Der Rebell - FAZ
Astonishments, ten, in the history of version... →
Amusing list of “events” :)
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“We will automatically upgrade Windows customers to the latest version of...”
– I’ve still got tears in my eyes.
Via: IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
“The Web will always offer more articles to read, and Instapaper will always...”
– App Gems: Hall of fame apps | Macworld
“We’re moving from rigid, structured, non-specific workforces to on-demand,...”
– Interesting: Work 3.0 is just getting underway, says oDesk’s Gary Swart — Online Collaboration
“Verdana and Georgia were the best anyone could do for reading on a screen back...”
– But not anymore today!
Via: Version 1.5 Improves Typography in iBooks on iPad and iPhone | The FontFeed
“App to app iOS still easily beats Android in most cases.”
– An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Galaxy Nexus
“It’s probably hard for a Mercedes owner to describe to a Honda owner how...”
– Ha ha, indeed.
Via: An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Galaxy Nexus
“The screen is so large that it killed several one-handed operations for me...”
– An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Galaxy Nexus
“The great thing about the web is linking.”
– Scripting News: Why apps are not the future
“Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want...”
– Trolls
“Icon masks work.”
– Wohooo!
Galaxy Nexus: The HTML5 Developer Scorecard | Blog | Sencha
“For developers who want to use CSS3 2D, 3D, animations, and transitions,...”
– Galaxy Nexus: The HTML5 Developer Scorecard | Blog | Sencha
“Change is good; it just takes time to adjust to it. Never get too comfortable....”
– A List Apart: Articles: What I Learned About the Web in 2011
“Your job is to make yourself replaceable by systematizing everything you do.”
– 4 Reasons To Make Yourself Replaceable : Managing :: American Express OPEN Forum
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“One of the most important concept of UX and UI is to be consistent - both in...”
– Impressive collection of ugliness: Google Currents - Yet another contribution to the UI-fragmentation of Android - MIN MING
“Something as trivial as a signup flow is considered a commodity and typically...”
– Going down the right Path | Teehan+Lax
“Experiences that start with an overlay teaching people how to use the interface...”
– Going down the right Path | Teehan+Lax
“Resumes are conversation-starters, but they imply nothing about whether the...”
– Hiring Employee #1 | A Smart Bear
“Thanks to the Windows Phone platform, Nokia can focus on developing its killer...”
– Nokia’s Lumia 800 Windows Phone matters more than you think
“Want to know what happens when you make an operating system open? The same thing...”
– Open Source webOS - Matt Gemmell