January 2012
3 posts
3 tags
“Google might not be evil, but there are plenty of evil people who stand to...”
– Rob Beschizza, explaining on BoingBoing Why we shouldn’t let Google (or anyone else) claim their private services are public spaces
2 tags
“if I had to choose between copyright and the wild west, semi-lawless,...”
– Jonathan Coulton, on copyright, piracy, and the MegaUpload shutdown
3 tags
“You simply cannot reconcile a mandate to love one’s neighbour, whilst then...”
– Matt Gemmell, on the Pope, Morality and Persecution
December 2011
3 posts
3 tags
“Apple’s way of getting you to buy a new phone is to make you really happy with...”
– The Understatement, visualizing Android Orphans
1 tag
“People don’t buy products – they buy the benefit.”
– One of ZURBlog’s 3 Reasons to Focus On People, Not Products
2 tags
“Aim to become as big of a traffic referrer as you possibly can — not only is...”
– Dan Frommer, on better blogging which would be good advise for all (online) publishers
November 2011
2 posts
“If you can build it in html, css and javascript, then you should. If you can’t,...”
– Jonathan Stark on whether to build a phone or tablet app using html, css and javascript, or code it in Objective C / Java. (via wtf-mobile-web)
2 tags
“The problem isn’t that magazines and newspapers are greedy or badly run, but...”
– Marco Arment, visionairy software developer, concluding his blogpost The New-World Economy of a Modern Magazine
October 2011
4 posts
2 tags
“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious...”
– Stephen Fry, on Steve Jobs
“It’s not about Personal Computer .. it’s about *Interpersonal*...”
– Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the WWW, quoting Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer
“He transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the...”
– President Barack Obama, on the Passing of Steve Jobs
3 tags
“The fact that it’s easy to write web pages doesn’t mean that...”
– Tom Hume, on the cost of cross-platform web apps, taking the Financial Times’ web app as an example.
September 2011
2 posts
“Inbox Zero does not mean how much e-mail’s in your inbox. It’s how much of your...”
– Merlin Mann, inventor of Inbox Zero, quoted in the Confessions of an inbox obsessive - The Globe and Mail
2 tags
“De URL is het document.”
– Arjen Kamphuis in zijn column over documentformaten, Its a trap! (column)
August 2011
2 posts
2 tags
“the day Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple isn’t like the day a typical CEO...”
– Walt Mossberg, on why Jobs’s Departure Is the End of an Extraordinary Era
1 tag
“To Apple, being in the App Store is a privilege — not the whole ballgame.”
– John Gruber of Daring Fireball, on the App Store vs. Mobile Web Apps
July 2011
1 post
2 tags
“The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic...”
– Richard Prior, 1972, quoted on LOL god
June 2011
2 posts
1 tag
“Always blame yourself. Its the only way your problems get solved.”
– Mike Markson, in his Note to Entrepreneurs: It’s Your Fault
2 tags
“Every dollar you spend on software from Microsoft, you spend $6 trying to get it...”
– Microsoft’s Ron Markezich, interviewed on the day Office 365 Hits Public Beta
May 2011
3 posts
2 tags
“apparently splash screens are super-vampires that can haunt users from beyond...”
– Jakob Nielsen, on iPad Usability
2 tags
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components...”
– Stephen Hawking, interviewed in The Guardian, There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story
3 tags
“Tablet makers are racing to get products to market, but they are missing a key...”
– James Kendrick explains, on tablets and why Consumers simply must “get it”
April 2011
6 posts
3 tags
“The question about pay walls is whether they are the *best* way to make the...”
– Jeff Jarvis, with a great list of Hard economic lessons for news
2 tags
“Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper […] are pointing us toward a future in...”
– A List Apart explains, in Orbital Content, what most publishers can’t seem to grasp
1 tag
“private cloud is a diversion and a distraction from the task of embracing cloud...”
– Phil Wainewright, arguing against Private clouds on ZDNet
1 tag
“How can something be so popular and widely discussed and visible, and yet people...”
– Noah Glass, Twitter’s Forgotten Cofounder, on what could be improved
2 tags
“it’s ambiguous in most discussions what “identity” means”
– Twitter founder Evan Williams, on Online Identity
2 tags
“rather than rethinking the icon, we should abandon the concept of explicitly...”
– Tumblr & Instapaper developer Marco Arment, on Replacing the “Save” icon
March 2011
1 post
4 tags
“Apple benefits Google by creating user experience innovations which Google can...”
– Horace Dediu, Apple (biased?) analyst, on his view of Google and Apple as mobile co-belligerents
February 2011
4 posts
1 tag
“It’s entirely possible to run a 20-man office without ever even...”
– 37signals on The end of the IT department
2 tags
“At any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of...”
– Adam Gopnik explains, in The New Yorker, How the Internet Gets Inside Us
2 tags
“I fear the Internet is doomed to fail, to be replaced by tightly controlled...”
– Don Norman, I Have Seen the Future and I Am Opposed
3 tags
“if you can’t find the button to use the camera on the phone, it doesn’t matter...”
– Adam Greenfield, a former head of design direction at Nokia, Interviewed by NYTimes.com
January 2011
2 posts
2 tags
“social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party....”
– Douglas Rushkoff, on why the Facebook hype will fade
3 tags
“our rational brain is [...] a computer operating system that was rushed to...”
– Jonah Lehrer, Neuroscientist and author, as cited in Myth #29: People are rational on UX Myths
December 2010
6 posts
“If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for...”
– Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay Shirky
2 tags
“every time and in every way that the telecommunications carriers have had power...”
– Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak on net neutrality, in his open letter to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free
4 tags
“There was a window in the 120 years of the record business where performers made...”
– Mick Jagger, on the rise of illegal file sharing, in an interview with The New York Times
1 tag
“Facebook or MySpace [...] feel like malls to me. But Twitter actually feels...”
– Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on on Why He Loves Twitter, and more
2 tags
“Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter...”
– Seth Godin, in a instantly popular post The inevitable decline due to clutter
3 tags
“As more and more business mobile optimize their websites, downloading an app in...”
– VentureBeat, in favor of web apps and why The iPhone app is the Flash homepage of 2010
October 2010
5 posts
2 tags
“They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern of mass media brands...”
– Khoi Vinh, on iPad Magazine Apps
4 tags
“Clutter and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of...”
– Edward Tufte, on Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7S)
“Masturbatory novelty is not a business strategy.”
– Jeffrey Zeldman argues why publishers are doing the wrong thing, and use iPad as the new Flash
2 tags
“In reality, we think the open versus closed argument is just a smokescreen to...”
– Steve Jobs, on Why Android isn’t open
2 tags
“Versus merely trying to stuff a product, burrito-style, with as many different...”
– Mark Sigal explains Apple’s segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom
September 2010
3 posts
2 tags
“Picking out clusters of coincidence is a predictable malfunction of normal human...”
– The excellent Psychological weblog “You Are Not So Smart” explains The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
3 tags
“Writing interface language is like writing dialog for a play. You want to make...”
– Erika Hall explains why not to use My in UI’s, in Super Unsuck It! Bye-Bye, My.
“If I’d have asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster...”
– Henry Ford, as cited by Steve Jobs, paraphrased in Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere
August 2010
2 posts
2 tags
“We are all better off going with the system put in place by the creators of the...”
– chpwn, creator of the popular iPhone tweak ProSwitcher, On Multitasking