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Montag, Juli 25th, 2011ShareNothing has improved in the last two years, Facebook – the McDonalds of Social- is making it even worse. Social networks have yet to find a respect-full way of addressing and supporting more aspects of human life. Source: http://www.geekwire.com/2011/google-engineer-steve-lacey-victim-car-wreck-kirkland Find more details of this tragedy here: http://www.king5.com/home/Road-rage-suspected-in-fatal-Kirkland-crash-126093229.html Worth reading: Robert Scobles thoughts about Steve “The [...]
Posted in Issues explained, Thematic Web Archives | No Comments »PageRank, EdgeRank, PeopleRank : secret algorithms lead your attention
Samstag, Januar 22nd, 2011Share“Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Attention has also been referred to as the allocation of processing resources.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention PageRank is part of Google`s software that decides what will be shown as a result to your search. http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html EdgeRank is a name used for Facebooks algorithm that [...]
Posted in Issues explained | 5 Comments »OneNote grouping objects : poor workaround for an essential missing feature
Dienstag, November 23rd, 2010ShareUpdate: 27.11.2011 Added workaround “Grouping objects in one image” Microsoft OneNote is a great application to gather information across other apps. Its also great because often it does things different and better than other Microsoft apps (example: no saving required). But unlike PowerPoint it has no functionality to group objects. That is a missing feature [...]
Posted in AcrossApps, Good Ideas, Issues explained, Recommended Products | 3 Comments »Meta criticism of information aggregation and filtering services: the danger of losing control about our decisions
Samstag, November 6th, 2010ShareMetacritic is a very valuable service that aggregates reviews into a “Metascore” for entertainment products like games. For “Supreme Commander 2″ Metascore is calculating a user score of “6.1″. Included in this is the score of “4″ from user “Breck”. The issue: “Breck” is not rating “Supreme Commander 2″ with a “4″, his comments are making [...]
Posted in Issues explained | No Comments »German news paper F.A.Z. and Mercedes-Benz demonstrate today together why Adobe Flash is often seen as bad
Sonntag, August 8th, 2010ShareUpdate: 18.11.2011 MacBook Air battery time reduced by Flash comment added Go today to www.faz.net and see how a flash advertisement can make use of 50% of your CPU. To paraphrase the text of the ad: Please Mercedes-Benz continue to “search for the best solution”, also for your web advertisement technology. Thank you. arstechnica.com is providing the [...]
Posted in Issues explained | No Comments »How to compete with Apple´s Apps Store? Offer a better user experience !
Mittwoch, Juli 28th, 2010ShareTo get you started here a simple but concrete example: There should be a way for any developer to stop users updating an application if a problem on a specific iOS version is detected (and not yet fixed). It does not look like that Apple´s App Store is offering this basic functionality today. Tweet this!
Posted in Issues explained | No Comments »What is Steam for Mac ? What is Steam on PC ?
Sonntag, Mai 16th, 2010ShareSteam is like iTunes an online application store but for games only and unlike iTunes (that is selling apps only for Apples iPhone, iPad and iPod) the games that can be downloaded from Steam will run either on a PC with Windows or a Mac with Apples OSX (but not on iPhone, iPad or iPod). [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Issues explained | No Comments »How does Apple Genius work?
Montag, September 21st, 2009ShareThe Apple iTunes Genius feature can create personalized play-lists for your iTunes library and provide you with recommendations regarding media and other products that you maybe would like to buy. How does Apples itunes Genius functionality work? Apple is making no secret out of what Genius does, you can find it all here: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/us/terms.html We [...]
Posted in Issues explained, Recommended Products | No Comments »Why is there no natively built-in appstore for desktop applications in Microsoft Windows and Apples OSX?
Samstag, März 14th, 2009ShareApples iTunes application store for iphone and ipod touch has demonstrated the value that a simple and integrated access/purchase/install/use/upgrade/uninstall life-cycle solution for applications can bring to a platform. Obviously Microsoft (Google has the Android Market, Nokia will launch Ovi Store) is now also introducing one for its own mobile platform. The better user experience [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Issues explained | 2 Comments »It is easy to start an online presentation on Google Docs, but do you know how stop it?
Samstag, Dezember 13th, 2008SharePaul Thurrott recently published two interesting articles about user interfaces and the difference between a simple UI and a UI that is easy to use: “Google’s Web applications are simple—they are—and a certain audience out there really appreciates that.” http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/11/24/a-great-google-article-the-difference-between-easy-and-simple-and-why-this-is-a-problem-for-windows-7.aspx “Today, we take it for granted, and while the details may change, the desktop UIs [...]
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