Web startup native. Been dabbling in social design and user experience for the last few years. Recently I've been working on improving the yabb user experience.
With the right business model it has been financially worth developing for the mobile web before. However, the iPhone is the first mobile… more
With the right business model it has been financially worth developing for the mobile web before. However, the iPhone is the first mobile platform it's a pleasure to dev for.
The recent leaks are a good thing. Now the general public has a better grasp of the dangers and a better understanding of the incompetence of organisations that operate outside of a system of real feedback.
1. Very low traffic - Don't bother 2. Low traffic - 'Flag as inappropriate' but it will have to be your Admin flagging… more
1. Very low traffic - Don't bother
2. Low traffic - 'Flag as inappropriate' but it will have to be your Admin flagging mostly
3. Medium traffic - 'Flag as inappropriate' will clean up latest streams to an acceptable level. Community participation in this process is a plus, as it builds a sense of participation and ownership.
4. High traffic - 'Flag as inappropriate' and a concept of reputation (user has upload inappropriate content before)
The potential for disruption is massive but because it doesn't work as conventional news story (small updates daily - a la Maddie) it… more
The potential for disruption is massive but because it doesn't work as conventional news story (small updates daily - a la Maddie) it is largely ignored.
So who is running the Storm network and why? The Chinese for cyberwarfare, russians planning to sell access to the network? Inquiring minds demand to know!
I'm certainly not an economist, but I try to maintain a reasonable understanding of macro. If I had to bet (I don't -… more
I'm certainly not an economist, but I try to maintain a reasonable understanding of macro. If I had to bet (I don't - none of my assets are dollar denominated) it would be on the dollar falling up to 30% further against a G8 basket over the next 5 years.
This is the start of the US current account deficit self-correcting. The correction was delayed by collective eagerness to continue to have one dominant currency worldwide, but the end of that dominance is now too apparent to ignore.
I've done a fair amount of the design work on yabb so I'm very curious about what people think is missing. A large… more
I've done a fair amount of the design work on yabb so I'm very curious about what people think is missing.
A large amount of skepticism is always healthy when considering any feature requests, otherwise you end up with a confusing, bloated mess of incoherent functionality.
Terrible core libraries and awful initial implementations. Fortunately Eich provided enough rope for later library creators to pull us out of the hole.
Terrible core libraries and awful initial implementations. Fortunately Eich provided enough rope for later library creators to pull us out of the hole.