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3 Signs of a Miserable Job…are:
1. Immeasurability -Not measuring the right things
2. Irrelevance - not tying goals to making a real impact on people
3. Anonymity - not being know for anything other than what your job role entails
check this consumerist report
skulduggery going on in the everyday of e-fraud i mean -commerce
the same problem Google themselves are struggling —-to even get ‘5 cts’ from the price of ‘free’
firstly, a digital service is not virtual goods - it’s just as real as any brick-n-mortar service. the only problem with digital goods, far too low the unit cost thus easy to expand, plus overly buoyed by the advertising boom (now bubble), web providers have essentially undermined their own software.
for many Web 2.0 ‘me-too’ s, their immaturity stops here - the race for ad-reading eyeballs is done - tragic realization - that they had no real business model (or even value) in the 1st place - their customers are only free-loaders looking for the next freebie.
In the resulting debris, only the real-value businesses like eBay or Amazon, and the more-mature Web 2.0 businesses will survive, and they will be better and even stronger.
look here before you get another windoze machine, you photoshop, IE, MS office addict
if you can’t detox from need XP, at least use open source applications
this is the new generation of collaboration software development
maybe sprinkle along
some of heroku (for the code editor, application control and deploy)
and assembla (svn, wiki and ticketing)
Ruby is the continuous wake up call to the snoozing languages like Java , C#, perl etc… struggling to match language improvements (namely closure and dynamic typing)
as greater language demands will be critical to manufacture the richer, more complex software that will rule our lives through the Web through the phone through new sensories like touch.
we cannot stay with languages that are knee-stuck in the mud of legacy database systems.
in fact we need to look back towards an old skool BASIC or COBOL, to see that we will need more-task-oriented languages (or even natural language) to make programming beyond coding lines but expressive + visual + intuitive instructions that can be used and shared by non-techies even
Lets stop generating more customized cranky, maintenance nightmares…so behaviour-driven, any takers?.
8-P
four interesting words: Identity, Context, Preference and Persona. Dictionary definitions of the three words include:
In other words, I might say about myself:
I propose that the fourth word, Persona, is at the intersection of the first three concepts. The dictionary defintion:
In other words, a Persona is a personality I choose to project in a particular circumstance.
i tend to think books always reflect the general consensus of the technical community to good technologies
why is there no opensocial publications after 1 year
larry/ sergey: pls follow up
i have to hand it to Big Blue this time, this is truly a good initiative to bring our sightless brethren back into the Web fray
lest we forget in flashy Youtube-ey Facebook-ish times to care for the less accessible
