Apple
Tablet makers are racing to get products to market
Tablet makers are racing to get products to market, but they are missing a key factor to get consumers to buy them. James Kendrick explains, on tablets and why Consumers simply must “get it”
Latest
Open
The question about pay walls
The question about pay walls is whether they are the *best* way to make the *most* money. Jeff Jarvis, with a great list of Hard economic lessons for news
Content
Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper are pointing us toward a
Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper […] are pointing us toward a future in which content is no longer entrenched in websites, but floats in orbit around users. A List Apart explains, in Orbital Content, what most publishers can’t seem to grasp
Cloud computing
Private cloud is a diversion and a distraction
private cloud is a diversion and a distraction from the task of embracing cloud computing in the enterprise Phil Wainewright, arguing against Private clouds on ZDNet (Wayback Machine)
Social Media
People aren’t understanding it
How can something be so popular and widely discussed and visible, and yet people aren’t understanding it? Noah Glass, Twitter’s Forgotten Cofounder, on what could be improved
Internet
What “identity” means
it’s ambiguous in most discussions what “identity” means Twitter founder Evan Williams, on Online Identity (Wayback Machine)
User experience
Rather than rethinking the icon, we should abandon the concept
rather than rethinking the icon, we should abandon the concept of explicitly saving files. Tumblr & Instapaper founder Marco Arment, on Replacing the “Save” icon
Apple benefits Google
Apple benefits Google by creating user experience innovations which Google can rapidly copy. Google benefits Apple by […] crippling the profitability (and thus the ability to innovate) of Apple’s direct competitors. Horace Dediu, Apple (biased?) analyst, on his view of Google and Apple as mobile co-belligerents
The need for a computer called “server”
It’s entirely possible to run a 20-man office without ever even considering the need for a computer called “server” somewhere. 37signals on The end of the IT department
At any given moment, our most complicated machine
At any given moment, our most complicated machine will be taken as a model of human intelligence Adam Gopnik explains, in The New Yorker, How the Internet Gets Inside Us
I fear the Internet is doomed to fail
I fear the Internet is doomed to fail, to be replaced by tightly controlled gardens of exclusivity. Don Norman, I Have Seen the Future and I Am Opposed
Design
If you can’t find the button
if you can’t find the button to use the camera on the phone, it doesn’t matter how many megapixels it is Adam Greenfield, a former head of design direction at Nokia, Interviewed by NYTimes.com