Archive for May, 2008
Posted on May 31, 2008. Filed under: Google, Google Web App Engine, business, business independence, globalization, web applications | Tags: Amazon, datacenters, IsTwitterDown, Twitter |
Dependent on where you are Twitter is slow, but how’d be Google web applications? — Globally quick because of distributed datacenters? But if so, how could you keep your business independent of Google?
Twitter has performance issues that very often, a probably local slow-down caused by local thunder-storm made me suspect Twitter was down, again. IsTwitterDown [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2008. Filed under: graphics | Tags: business card |
thought it would be nice to share this Besides of this, the top left corner of the card is free, so you could add a personal note or reminder there — or simply your actual e-mail address or phone number.
The green and the yellow square refer to the natural green environment and the [...]
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Posted on May 20, 2008. Filed under: addressing crap -- getting crap, cliches, community, management's point of view, social network, trolls |
Looking at some web services one might get the impression their creators assumes their audience to be fools. Once I even learned that from a manager’s side of view who stated that opinion clearly.
And why do managers may think so? Maybe for all the trolls out there and for the reports about those trolls. Maybe [...]
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Posted on May 17, 2008. Filed under: GNOME, KDE, Whoa! user experience, graphical user interface (GUI), interaction design, text user interface (TUI), user experience |
Probably from the beginning on, computers suffered a common lack: latency on user action. Therefore a computer, some time old, will always feel slow regardless how quick it was regarded once.
I’ve got an old i286 PC/AT here. Currently it has a 40 MB disk in it (I guess). As I want to get id of [...]
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Posted on May 6, 2008. Filed under: Cologne, armedangels.de, community, community site, personal relationship, portability of the social graph, social arc, social graph, suggests, web monday, web_montag, web_montag_05052008_cologne | Tags: R Scoble, Sandra of armedangels.de |
Unknowingly, Robert Scoble reminded me about something I thought about the last 24 hours: Yesterday, I attended Web Monday in Cologne, Germany. Although her entry to the presentation was not tech but fashion, Sandra of armedangels.de gave a great presentation on a shirt fashion label that noticed a community gathering around them and aims at [...]
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