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Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetATK-paperi-sakset ohjekirjasta: Järjestelmän tekninen rajoitus voittaa 100.000:lle käyttäjälle aiheutuvat ongelmat.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWhat would you count as (some of) the consistent fundamentals of design?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetPoint taken. I agree the underlying technologies in Wave are huge, but I’m still skeptic about the client itself. Like I say in the beginning of the post, I see huge potential in it, just the kind of potential Daniel Tenner is writing aout.
What I don’t see is how Wave could take off (yet). Despite what many a geek would say, the capability for such brilliant innovation to take off is only partly about having the technologies and features and possibilities right. You also need to have people understand the possibilities in a meaningful way. When you create something that is supposed to change behaviour, the thing actually needs to guide people towards the new behaviour, both explicitly (help texts, tutorials, etc), but more importantly implicitly (having the user experience just right, so that learning happens “automatically”). This is the area where Wave currently lacks — the irresistible call to action.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetTodella samanlaisia havaintoja olen tehnyt omasta verkkokäytöksestäni. Käsittämättömäksi leimaamaani Twitteriä olen ruvennut käyttämään mäkille löytyvän Tweetien myötä ja Facebook status päivityksistä on tullut jokapäiväinen harrastus iPhonen FB-aplikaation takia. Blogi sen sijaan maatuu ja samoin kuin siellä, suu käy aina tilanteen sattuessa kohdalle (ja vähän muutenkin).
Mutta ennustukseesi voin sanoa, että olen lukenut tänä vuonna ja kaksi kirjaa, mikä tarkoittaa noin 350% kasvua lukutahdissani. Kannattaa kokeilla.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetSorry for joining back into the conversation this late. Anyway, here are my comments:
I disagree on Jon’s 1 and 2. Labels love Jobs. He’s the one who finally made them zillions on downloadable music. The greedy bastards might want gazillions, but it’s not Steve’s fault. Nobody really cares about download size. Even the ones who complain still download and complain.
Many commenters echoed about Apple’s potential difficulty in running a service based on advertising. But Apple doesn’t have to base their offering on advertising. They could offer only paid subscriptions, and compete in the paid customer space. Many people wiser than me say that a blanket fee for music is the only possible future. If this happens, the paid subscriber game will be the deciding game.
What comes to more immediate competition between the two apps, the question is not why would users leave Spotify for iTunes, but why would users continue to use Spotify if iTunes offers the same, and more (file playback, iPod management, movies, etc).
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetWhen you notice pen and paper isn’t enough for you either, try The Hit List. ;)
I have a pretty complex system of tags and smart folders set up in the app, but it works well enough to avoid task overload, and to enable selective focusing and forgetting.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetMika, that is indeed a very potent scenario. Having said that, I think they would need to succeed in two “industry firsts” at the same time:
Creating the first widely accepted mobile streaming serviceCreating the first massive installed base with a high usage ratio on the “old-skool” mobile platforms. There are apps that can claim a high installed base, but very few that would claim any significant usage base. Even Skype on mobile doesn’t seem to be catching on that well. Am I right?
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetThanks for the link, great discussion there! The first comments from Spotify’s Daniel Ek seem to be aligned with my guesses: they will go for one or both of these options:
Creating an open system that would increase Spotify’s mass past iTunesCreating an ecosystem around music data (as social objects)You can read from above what I think about those approaches. ;)
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetFor teaching #7 is essential. For projects with a tight deadline… it’s surprising. Was for me, at least.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI so wish I could tell the actual story, but no. And even if I could, it wouldn’t be a fair account, with me sharing the story only from my viewpoint.
But like a friend said this morning: these are lessons in the school of life, and every lesson has a price. Some lessons are more expensive than others.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetFor a couple of years, I've had a system in my Google Reader where I put my 500+ feeds in numbered folders. Folder 1 contains feeds that I will not want to miss a single item on. Folder 2 contains a couple of feeds that represent what I'm most interested in right now. Folder 3 contains the rest of my friends' feeds. One folder contains saved searches and stuff filtered through Yahoo Pipes. And so on. The folder number corresponds roughly to how interesting I find the feeds inside the folder.
What usually happens is that I read everything in Folder 1, then take a glimpse in Folder 2, and then move on to the "flow mode" you described, shifting through All Items and stopping on whatever looks interesting. Like you say, there's never time read everything, so this way I get the most important stuff, and enough unexpected gems.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetTai sitten Travelit ja muut yksinkertaisesti kuuluvat olennaisena osana ravintoketjuun varmistaen sihteerien työpaikkojen pysyvyyden…
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetReminds me of the Pattern Language book, and the university lawn example in which paths were built where the grass wore off.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetI guess the agile in this discussion refers to developing in sprints that include design and development. I would call architects’ work quite strictly waterfall: you design first and lock the spec (how it looks, what are the structures, calculations, etc), the development starts then. Every part of design and development includes iterations, but I wouldn’t call all iteration “agile”.
Reply | Original | Permalink | TweetCan’t wait to be able to post individual tracks to my profile, and especially to share with Facebook friends. Preferably so they can listen to the track right on Facebook, without clicking through to Emusic.
(Not sure my friends would appreciate the amount of FB mail this feature would bring into their inboxes…)