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Mommy, What’s a Web Browser?

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Here's why I'm sharing this story: there are a lot of Internet users like my mom. As web developers and engineers, we live in a fantasy world where every user understands exactly what he or she is doing on the Internet and has a deep appreciation for web standards. The real world doesn't reflect the fantasy at all. Users don't understand the Internet; they don't understand web browsers. If they don't understand web browsers, that means they also don't understand if they're using a good browser or a bad browser, nor do they understand how to upgrade it.

For many, the Internet is just an icon on their desktop with a particular logo and color just like the toaster is a black or silver box that sits on the kitchen counter. What brand of toaster do you have? Who cares? You know how to make your morning bagel with it, right? For many of the billion Internet users, web browsers are simply a box that displays stuff. Whether or not that stuff has rounded corners and drop shadows is irrelevant. Whether or not you want them to change that box is irrelevant.

So the next time you get angry at "those damn IE6 users," stop and realize that these are people who probably have no idea what a web browser is. They're a lot like the poor senior citizens who were still paying toAlease their phone from the phone company - what they had worked, so they didn't see a reason to change. The sooner you accept that most of your users don't even know what a web browser is, the better you'll be able to design appropriate experiences and messaging for them.

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Posted: November 12th, 2010
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IBM: No Next Big Things?

"The fact is that innovation was a little different in the 20th century. It’s not easy (now) to come up with greater and different things," Donofrio said. "If you’re looking for the next big thing, stop looking. There’s no such thing as the next big thing," he added.

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Posted: November 9th, 2010
at 7:59am by Koookiecrumbles


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TeleVideo and Permutations

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Posted: November 7th, 2010
at 1:48pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: computers,crime,web,tele

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A World (Online) Without Money

Why would you want to do away with money?A As it turns out money is too powerful an incentive.A When you throw money into the equation, it tends to drown out other motivations such altruism, social norms and reputation.AADan Ariely has a wonderful example of this in his book "Predictably Irrational" where he describes how a nursery school tried to use cash penalties to prevent parents from dropping off their kids late.A With the cash penalty the number of late drop offs went up (!) because now parents felt like they were paying for a service.A The money completely overwhelmed feeling bad for imposing upon the teachers.A Amazingly, money was so powerful that even when the school dropped the cash penalties the late drop offs stayed above their initial level.

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Posted: November 7th, 2010
at 7:46am by Koookiecrumbles


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My iPad Magazine Stand

Of course, small, nimble apps won't necessarily solve the long-term revenue problems of major magazines. So is there a bigger solution for magazines, one that will bring in significant revenue along the lines of what they saw in the pre-digital world?

This is an incredibly difficult question and I've stopped trying to pretend I have any response to it other than "I don't know," or, in less sanguine moments, "Probably not." There are no easy answers for content publishers right now, which is why in some ways they can hardly be blamed for their iPad enthusiasm a at the very least, they aren't ignoring the sea change that tablets represent. Perhaps like many of us, they need to fail their way to success. That's a legitimate strategy, and if they're nimble enough to recover from these wild miscalculations before it's too late, then I applaud them for it.

More likely, they will waste too many cycles on this chimerical vision of resuscitating lost glories. And as they do, the concept of a magazine will be replaced in the mind a and attention span a of consumers by something along the lines ofAFlipboard. If you ask me, the trajectory of content consumption favors apps like these that are more of a window to the world at large than a cul-de-sac of denial. Social media, if it's not already obvious to everyone, is going to continue to change everything a including publishing. And it's a no-brainer to me that content consumption is going to be intimately if not inextricably linked with your social graph. Combine Flipboard or whatever comes along and improves upon it with the real innovation in recommendation technology that we'll almost undoubtedly see in the next few years, and I can't see how the 20th Century concept of a magazine can survive, even if it does look great on a tablet.

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Posted: October 28th, 2010
at 12:38pm by Koookiecrumbles


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The Scale of the Universe

How big is big? Prepare to be amazed and astounded…

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Posted: October 27th, 2010
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Stephen Fry : What I’d Wish I’d Known When I Was 18

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The Geography of Open Source

The paper presents an empirical study of the geography of open source software development that looks at Github, a popular project hosting website. We show that developers are highly clustered and concentrated primarily in North America and Western and Northern Europe, though a substantial minority is present in other regions. Code contributions and attention show a strong local bias. Users in North America account for a larger share of received contributions than of contributions made. They also receive a disproportionate amount of attention.

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Posted: October 4th, 2010
at 12:35pm by Koookiecrumbles


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Righthaven v. Klerks

There is an interesting ruling [PDF] in a Righthaven copyright infringement case, one of its tidal wave of copyright infringement cases against bloggers in Nevada, Righthaven v. Klerks et al. TechDirt highlights that the ruling indicates that the judge is willing to listen to the defendants’ argument that there was an implied license. It’s also a case asserting fair use. Anyone blogging would do well to read it, so I have it as text for you.

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Posted: September 27th, 2010
at 2:42pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: web,blogs,law,trademark & copyright

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