Software As She’s Developed

It’s no secret that clipboards in all the major platforms suck, hence any number of third-party apps to do things like save multiple buffers (like Vi did in the mid-80s). There’s also initiatives like Ray Ozzie and MS’s Live Clipboard for transferring data between web apps and the like. For many years, Sony researchers have […]

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It’s cool to see Yahoo! posting a job for pattern curator: CURATE THE YAHOO! PATTERN LIBRARY Yahoo!’s Platform User Experience Design team is looking for a new curator for the Pattern Library. The curator works with designers from across Yahoo! to develop new patterns and to eventually migrate a pattern to the public library. You will be […]

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Email and the web have traditionally been the two ubiquitous services on the internet (prior to the web, it was email and usenet). Podcasting (and vidcasting/vodcasting) is now becoming another ubiquitous service. The reason I mention this was an interesting quote on BBC news today in a story about the web’s birthday. Despite the story […]

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Props to the Touchstone team for receiving funding, getting a glowing TechCrunch reception and generally heading in a positive direction. Touchstone is an “Attention Management Engine” - it’s a combo of Growl, RSS aggregator, and Widget system. The trick is that it tries to be intelligent about what it notifies you, and how it does it. […]

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I can feel a case of the Wiki Twitch coming on … Victims of the Wiki Twitch have a perfectionist tendency which causes them to optimise content they come across, for the benefit of others and for reasons of “enlightened selfishness” - the motivation to improve what they will likely read again in the future. Many […]

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Another day, another round of VC. From TechCrunch this week: Online social network Multiply has closed a Series A funding round with $5 million from Transcosmos and $1 million from the company’s founders. Multiply is a service that filters all networking functions, from highlighted users to visible tag clouds, through a proximity filter with a slider. […]

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… That’s the question I finally got to ask the man who gave Ajax its name, following Jesse James Garrett’s keynote last week at The Ajax Experience. I consider Ajax a very standard, uncontroversial, example of a pattern, so I’ve wondered why it wasn’t introduced as such, in the original Ajax paper. Jesse said he’s […]

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Yeah, there’s lots to love about ITunes. The overall architecture is excellent and if this is what Spotlight will become in the next OSX (as rumoured), that’s all good. However, there are also some things that are really bad in ITunes. It’s interesting that Apple still seems to be the best player out there despite […]

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I was surprised to see this video of everyone’s favourite professional wrestlerCEO giving it up for “Advertisers, Advertisers, Advertisers!”. You might recall my post about my inclusion of the more famous “Developers” call-to-arms in a podcast (with good fortune, it was the Ajax podcast, the most downloaded podcast I’ve done). Including this new chant just […]

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You know, the reason I’ve been passionate about podcasting since the beginning is that I’m a bit thingy about the written word. It has its merits, but multimedia’s where it’s at for true absorbtion of concepts. It’s the way we’re wired to learn and the no.1 reason why universities survived the printing press. So I could […]

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