some links
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmianhttp://www.tightwind.net/2011/01/android-isnt-about-building-a-mobile-platform/
Article on Google's possible reasons for creating Android.
http://freelish.us/
Open-source bookmarking service (a la Delicious.com). You can also host it on your own server.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-unique-creative-dropbox-accounts/
Uses for dropbox accounts.
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1279 (from Sabina)
"Market maturity is also driving toward an increased focus on experiences and design. As markets mature, overall experience becomes more important than new capabilities and features."
It strikes me that blogging platforms have hit this point: design and user experience have become more interesting to people than features. The high emphasis Tumblr places on design is one of the reasons it's become so popular.
http://denise.dreamwidth.org/57248.html
On technical debt, and how Dreamwidth is paying it down.
Article on Google's possible reasons for creating Android.
http://freelish.us/
Open-source bookmarking service (a la Delicious.com). You can also host it on your own server.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-unique-creative-dropbox-accounts/
Uses for dropbox accounts.
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1279 (from Sabina)
"Market maturity is also driving toward an increased focus on experiences and design. As markets mature, overall experience becomes more important than new capabilities and features."
It strikes me that blogging platforms have hit this point: design and user experience have become more interesting to people than features. The high emphasis Tumblr places on design is one of the reasons it's become so popular.
http://denise.dreamwidth.org/57248.html
On technical debt, and how Dreamwidth is paying it down.
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Date: 2011-04-03 03:56 am (UTC)The problem with features is that really, anyone can just implement the same feature. So if your competitors have friends lists also, what does that matter? I don't think LJ is that desperate, however; the Russian side is their main business, and all internet businesses always need to be improving to keep up with the competition.