Igor Delovski Board

[XNote]

Why Features don't Matter Anymore: The New Laws of Digital Technology

"The iPod was never sold on the grounds of its technical merits: Apple
hit a gold-mine by marketing a cool new way of integrating music in your life."

[XNote]

Designers Need Developers to Make Their Products

"Yes, I'm a wannabe designer. It started four years ago when I opened
my first iPod and read the following: Designed by Apple in California."

[Me]

Code like a girl

"Do engineers and programmers care about concepts like beauty and
elegance? Should they? Designers have always known that looks matter--
that the outside (interface) matters. But deep in the heart of those
building the inside--the technology most users never see--lies the
sensibility of an artist. In a kind of 'Design Eye for the Code Guy' way."

[delovski]

Slashdot: 4 Seconds Loading Time Is Maximum For Websurfers

"Of course we all want webpages to load as fast as possible, but now
research has finally shown it: four seconds loading time is the maximum
threshold for websurfers. Akamai and JupiterResearch have conducted a
study among 1,000 online shoppers and have found, among other results,
that one third of respondents have, at one point, left a shopping website
because of the overall 'poor experience.' 75% of them do not intend ever to
come back to this website again. Online shopper loyalty also increases as
loading time of webpages decreases. Will this study finally show developers
of shopping websites the importance of the performance of their
websites?"

[Ike]

Digg: Horrible Zune Setup Experience!

"We hoped installing the Zune software and getting our player running
would be as seamless and painless as getting iTunes and an iPod running
on your machine, since that is, after all, what it's up against.
Unfortunately, the reality of our experience with the first version of the
Zune software this afternoon is that is SUCKS!"

[delovski]

Wiki: Edward Bernays

"Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995) is regarded by many
as the "father of public relations," although some people believe that title
properly belongs to some other early PR practitioners, such as Ivy Lee.

Born in Vienna, Bernays was both a blood nephew and a nephew-in-law to
Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and Bernays's public relations
efforts helped popularize Freud's theories in the United States. "

[delovski]

How the Wii is creaming the competition

"Market tests suggested that the product was everything its designers
hoped: engaging enough that nongamers might give it a go, and simple
enough that newbies could quickly get up to speed."

[Ike]

techcrunch.com - HP To Apple: You Win

“Consumers are changing the use of their PC,” HP CEO Leo Apotheker said.
“The tablet effect is real and sales of the TouchPad are not meeting our
expectations. The velocity of change in the personal device marketplace
continues to increase as the competitive landscape is growing increasingly
more complex especially around the personal computing arena,” he
continued. He then repeated, “the tablet effect is real”.

But wait, then why is he exiting the tablet space after only a matter of
weeks? Because when Apotheker says “the tablet effect”, he really me-
ans “the iPad effect”.

[Ike]

nytimes.com - White Collars Turn Blue, Paul Krugman

"When looking backward, you must always be prepared to make allowances:
it is unfair to blame late-20th-century observers for their failure to foresee
everything about the century to come. Long-term social forecasting is an
inexact science even now, and in 1996 the founders of modern nonlinear
socioeconomics were obscure graduate students."

[Ike]

Jean-Louis Gassee - The Internet of Poorly Working Things

"Then there's the truly ugly side of Consumer IoT: security, or the lack of
it. The lackadaisical, to be polite, approach to software leaves many con-
nections open to hackers who can see passwords exchanged in clear text
on home WiFi while they sit in a car parked outside the house. Or we see
that 100M Volkswagen cars are open to wireless hacking. Using the One
Cockroach Theory, how many more other makes of cars will be found to
be insecure?"