Archive for March, 2005

Tidepool download usability critique, part 2

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

New on the support page for Storymill/Tidepool: >wah< Why Do I have to create an account??? On Storymill, we create your own unique web space for your photos and your tags in Tidepool. It’s a required web thing. Accounts help to build communities of users, and to allow you to share to friends and vice versa. We […]

I love slashdot

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

peculiarmethod says: here’s my question.. can you decrypt this? <td padding=”5px”>I’m<td> Segway Ninja answers: You should be in a padded cell, but someone forgot to close it.

Not a review of Tidepool

Thursday, March 24th, 2005

This is a rant. Originally, it should have been a short review of Tidepool, Immuexa’s new photo organizing and sharing app. Timothy Falconer wants us to spread the word, and of course I’m curious about the first semwebby application that is pitched to the proverbial computer user’s mom. But the review didn’t happen. Why? Well, here are some […]

Humans: Eat, sleep, walk around, make mobile calls

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

David Weinberger quotes Clay Shirky who quotes Marko Ahtisaari: Mobile phones are the first things since keys that everyone carries. This is a profound realization. Because it changes what it means to be a human. This doesn’t happen everyday. Humans used to be those creatures that can eat, drink, sleep, talk, walk around, perceive the world through a […]

StatCVS passes Glen Smith’s “Just Works” test

Monday, March 14th, 2005

Glen Smith says nice things about StatCVS: It certainly passes the “Just Works” test - I was up and running in under 5 minutes - and the graphs it produces are really quite cool. I love stuff that “Just Works” and try hard to give my apps this quality. This is not always easy with Java apps […]