Photo by koalazymonkey on Flickr used under Creative Commons Saw an interesting quote attributed to Mark Zuckerberg yesterday: But guess what? Nobody wants to make lists. A bit out of context, but Zuckerberg was expanding on the best way to share things with a network of people. He’s absolutely right about lists. They are simultaneously [...]
Really like this resource Lost in Translation: Nuances of European Social Media, and so will you if you ever wondered if there was a European equivalent of SXSW! There are some good conference references as well as suggested Twitter followers. The following also caught my eye: “Cultural differences. This can’t be stressed enough: Europe is [...]
Photo by Joi from Flickr used under Creative Commons I’ve been staycationing this week, in case you were wondering why it’s been quiet here. It’s Friday, so I thought I’d extend a Twitter tradition and do a follow Friday of my own, in longer format. At SXSW in March, Paul and I both attended Clay [...]
Image by uuzinger from Flickr used under Creative Commons The release of the iPad and the subsequent debate around who would use it and why has me on a personal crusade to design simpler software. Technology inspires nervousness and fear among everyday users, and frequently, geeks don’t help the uninitiated, as we saw when ReadWriteWeb [...]
So, Rich (@rmanalan), Anthony (@anthonyslai) and I (@jkuramot) are at Chirp (@chirp), the Twitter developer conference in San Francisco. One of the many tidbits from yesterday’s sessions was the general release of the @Anywhere platform Evan Williams (@ev) announced at SXSW in March. If you’re not already familiar, @Anywhere integrates Twitter into any website with [...]
The moment your software team grows beyond a team of one, you need to communicate. Someone will have an idea on improving a new feature, creating a new product, etc. Immediately the question arises of how best to share the idea. For most people, the conversation moves immediately to tools. Should we use a wiki, [...]
Cornified AppsLab! Probably the most memorable session for me at SXSW, at least in terms of nuggets I can take away and use, was How to Design for the 15 Minutes presented by Rob Goodlatte (@rsg) of Facebook and Daniel Burka (@dburka) formerly of Digg. The slides make a little more sense when read side-by-side with [...]
Cornified AppsLab! Probably the most memorable session for me at SXSW, at least in terms of nuggets I can take away and use, was How to Design for the 15 Minutes presented by Rob Goodlatte (@rsg) of Facebook and Daniel Burka (@dburka) formerly of Digg. The slides make a little more sense when read side-by-side with [...]
The last SXSW session Paul and I caught before leaving Austin was called “No Straight Lines: Straight Line Thinking Stops Here” given by Alan Moore (@alansmlxl). I enjoyed his talk and found his ideas inspiring, and among many other things he covered was the story of Local Motors. Local Motors is essentially an open source [...]
Photo by the_toe_stubber from Flickr used under Creative Commons Last week, I realized that the smartphone is the ultimate anti-social device. Sure, you can be all social, checking Facebook, tweeting and checking in to venues, but the paradox is that your smartphone makes you look like unapproachable IRL. And by you, I mean me. The [...]