Sometimes the pieces just fall into place. Two years ago I was writing about needing a better connected device . Then the iPhone launched, and people (some people, not everyone) wanted a tablet. It makes sense. A bigger, lean device that people who live and breathe on the web can use to be connected. No need for GSM, it’s just not a phone. It’s a platform.
Anyway, fast forward from two years ago to present day. Mike and the rest of the guys at Techcrunch (which I left now ages ago, but miss dearly) are tackling this very problem (see the post at TechcrunchIT , too) - talk about bending the rules of what you expect from a blog.
If you think about it, it makes total sense. Our computing power is in the cloud, so is our information. What we need now, is a better way to connect to the services we use and the data they store. This project might just be one of the answers to this problem. Part of the beauty? The plan to work on it and opensou...
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Web 2.0: Are we losing focus again?From: webreakstuff.com
Post Date: 2006-05-10 06:55:06
Every now and then around the blogosphere someone who’s trying to alert people to this new “era” we call Web 2.0 messes up and loses focus. Either by talking about things that are clearly lacking in innovation, or by talking things that are not “2.0″ at all.
The thing is we’ve all seen DHTML, we’ve all seen image generation with PHP, we’ve all seen a lot of stuff before the year 2000. We can’t keep calling every fancy thing that happens t...
more The new Yahoo! homepageFrom: webreakstuff.com
Post Date: 2006-05-18 08:42:53
Change in a big portal is not something to be taken lightly. The new Yahoo! homepage, which is now close to launching, is an attempt to revitalize the way people see the company and the services it offers, and to provide users with a new starting point to their online world.
In this post, we take a look at what has changed between the old and new layouts, and share some thoughts on what might be the next steps important for the team in charge of the portal homepage to take. Read on.
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more The search engine API problemFrom: webreakstuff.com
Post Date: 2006-05-16 05:49:06
Siteblimp, the PPC application we developed for the guys at ACS , relies on the Google Adwords API to provide its service to the users. We previously wrote about the problems of depending on 3rd party APIs , but nothing in writing comes close to real experience. This (somewhat technical) post highlights some of the problems we faced during the development stage, in hoping to illustrate some of the issues you may run into working with code you don’t control.
From initial goals...
more Now that it’s gone: On designing TechcrunchFrom: webreakstuff.com
Post Date: 2006-05-13 08:19:25
Techcrunch’s previous design, which I’ve done around June 2005 , resisted for almost a year and accompanied the blog in it’s tremendous growth to the 53.000 daily readers mark. Despite all its flaws (because there were a few, particularly to my eyes), it was recognized by the industry as a clear exercise on what “Web 2.0″ blog design was about. It’s not up to me to agree or disagree with that statement because I’d probably be biased, but this ...
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