December 2011
1 post
April 2011
6 posts
Fra The Nerd Handbook:
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time.
March 2011
3 posts
Paul Graham:
If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.
February 2011
1 post
Ifølge Bret Taylor, CTO i Facebook, opplever de for tiden et problem når de kontinuerlig må utvikle mange forskjellige versjoner av Facebook, både den vanlige nettsiden, en nettside for mobiler, og apps til iPhone, Android og Blackberry. Løsningen er ifølge Taylor HTML5:
The end goal is that we’ll be able to develop one version of Facebook for mobile devices, that runs on all different...
December 2010
2 posts
The Real Life Social Network v2
Paul Adams om sosiale nettverk. Mahendra Palsule om nøkkelpoengene i presentasjonen:
A single umbrella group of “Friends” in an online network doesn’t mirror real-life and leads to problems. Support multiple independent groups of friends.
Og
Focusing on technology is a wrong strategy. Focus should instead be on Motivation and Goals.
Merlin Mann:
Some days, the web feels like 5 people trying to make something; 5k people turning it into a list; and 500MM people saying, “FAIL.”
Hear, hear.
November 2010
3 posts
WatchSkills!
Seth Godin:
Hard is not about sweat or time, hard is about finishing the rare, valuable, risky task that few complete.
Fra en Forbes-artikkel om Y Combinator:
“The right advice has always been more important than money,” says Greg McAdoo, a partner at Sequoia Capital, which has invested in Google, Yahoo, PayPal and YouTube. “But nobody has been able to do it on this kind of scale before.”
October 2010
3 posts
John Sculley, tidligere CEO i Apple, om Steve Jobs:
Steve’s brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology—everything is design.
Mike Taylor:
These are the days of miracle and wonder. We have resources, we have information, we have how-to guides, we have connectivity. In fact, there’s really only one thing we don’t have any more: excuses.
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
5 posts
Christen Sveaas:
Selvfølgelig skal vi finne på masse å gjøre etter oljen, og til og med lenge før den er helt slutt. Stol på norske gründere! Som investor evaluerer jeg hver eneste uke nye og potensielt lønnsomme norske prosjekter. Det syder og koker av gode ideer og mennesker med evne og vilje til ny verdiskapning her i landet.
Tim Berners-Lee:
There’s a freedom about the Internet: As long as we accept the rules of sending packets around, we can send packets containing anything to anywhere.
Avdi Grimm:
and and or are useful operators; you just need to understand their special place in Ruby programs.
July 2010
2 posts
Paul Graham:
it’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.
Jeff Bezos:
In the end, we are our choices. Build yourself a great story.
June 2010
8 posts
Why you should pay attention to Node.js →
Steve Blank:
Getting customer feedback can not be delegated.
Mike Rundle:
Apple’s products sell because they focus on the overall user experience and how people actually use the device, from when they buy it in an Apple Store to the first time they open the lid on a MacBook Pro all the way through its lifetime.
Mike Rundle:
Kill the settings, kill them all.
MG Siegler:
[…] the iPhone is an Aston Martin with a Honda-price. Meanwhile, Android remains a Honda at a Honda-price — it’s a good deal, but it’s not an iPhone-deal.
Rich Aberman:
Aggregating large amounts of data about thousands of users and drawing broad conclusions about the “average user” is valuable, but nothing can replace an empathetic and thorough understanding of individual users.
Jonathan Rauch:
[When] you see an introvert lost in thought, don’t say “What’s the matter?” or “Are you all right?”
Fred Mossler:
We wanted Zappos to be different. We decided to create collaborative relationships in which both parties shared the risks, as well as the rewards.
May 2010
7 posts
Jeffrey Zeldman:
If numbers are your strategy to win at this thing, you’ve already lost. This thing is not a game. There is no winning. There is only mattering. If you don’t understand that, you aren’t making a difference.
Michael Schrage for Harvard Business Review:
I’ve been asking my executive education classes for several years whether anyone bothered to Google (or, more recently, Bing) me in advance. I’ve never had more than two hands go up. Ever.
Jeg googler alt og alle. Men så sier også Google Web History følgende om meg: “Total Google searches: 24932”. Oi.
Peter Bregman:
Need willpower to work on something difficult? Ask yourself when you need that willpower the most. […] Identify the times when you are most at risk of violating that commitment. […] Then, whatever you do, don’t give up in the moments when you’re most vulnerable.
Humor fra RFC 2775 om Internet Transparency:
It should also be noted that since the speed of light is not set by an IETF standard, our current notions of end-to-end performance will be largely irrelevant to interplanetary networking.
Mark Bernstein om hvorfor Apple ikke godtar Flash:
Never again would another company decide whether the Macintosh lived or died.
April 2010
9 posts
I en verden med uendelig valg, er det bra noen hjelper oss samle trådene:
The Embedly API allows developers to embed videos, images and rich media from 67 services through one API.
Det kommer til å bli flere og flere tjenester som gjør det enklere å forholde seg til den uendelige mengden tjenester som finnes i dagens internett-verden.
Den setningen som har blitt oftest avmerket med Kindle:
three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
Fra Malcolm Gladwells Outliers. Anbefalt lesning.
JD Lasica:
Everything about news and journalism is changing: the way it’s produced, the way it’s distributed, the way we consume it, the idea of who’s a trusted news provider, the conventions of journalism and what “news” itself means.
Vi lever i en periode med enorm endring for journalister. Trengs distribusjonsnettet avisen på samme måte som før? Vil vi se mer innovasjon og...
Apple om hvorfor de ikke tillatter å lage applikasjoner med tredjeparts programvare:
We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
Og:
The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
Mauricio Longo:
For most regular people it isn’t about the clock speed of the processor in a computer that matters, its what you can do with it and how well you can do with it.
Amen
Joe Clark:
While people will tolerate a lot of things, what we want are beautiful things that work well.
Clay Shirky om Joseph Tainter som skrev boken The Collapse of Complex Societies:
The answer he arrived at was that they hadn’t collapsed despite their cultural sophistication, they’d collapsed because of it.