February 2012
15 posts
The Cult of Amazon Prime →
Proseed #19 →
Dwa ciekawe artykuły: o płatnościach i serwisach randkowych.
I am a lousy copywriter
April 19, 1955 Dear Mr. Calt: On March 22nd you wrote to me asking for some notes on my work habits as a copywriter. They are appalling, as you are about to see: 1. I have never written an advertisement in the office. Too many interruptions. I do all my writing at home. 2. I spend a long time studying the precedents. I look at every advertisement which has appeared for competing products during...
“When two engineers get into an argument about whether to use one big Flash SSD...”
– A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
“For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart...”
– A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky
It’s amazing what you can learn when you don’t have cable TV:
peaceful.com says “coming soon”.
joyful.com is a one-man software shop. At least he’s Irish.
disappointed.com tells you to get over it.
angry.com and sad.com are both for sale.
happy.com redirects to Walgreen’s pharmacy.
Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed... →
“Apple would love us to believe it’s all “Eureka.” But Apple...”
– Steve Jobs and the Eureka Myth - Adrian Slywotzky - Harvard Business Review
“If your developers are charging into production in an uncontrolled manner...”
– ITIL doesn’t add overhead | The IT Skeptic
“Amazon’s 1-Click (or One-Click, OneClick, various people use different names for...”
– Amazon Loses 1-Click Patent - Forbes
“In case you missed it, and I certainly would have if not for someone asking a...”
– iPhone generates more revenue than all Microsoft
January 2012
14 posts
“Micro-manage much? Communicating information from life form to another is a...”
– Terrible Teacher and Mentor, Top 10 Reasons Yoda Was - GeekWire
Top 10 reasons why Darth Vader was an amazing... →
This Article Explains Why Apple Makes iPhones In... →
“When former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones recently formed a new rock...”
– From ABBA to ZZ Top, All the Good Bands Names Are Taken - WSJ.com
Essentially, all UI design is about manipulating users, whether you’re coming up with the most easily understood button labels that will get people to click on the correct button, the most readable typeface that will get people to read your essay, or design ideas taken from videogames. The goal of UI design is to get people to use our products successfully. That’s «manipulating people».
“Reads: Old: The Wall Street Journal
New: TechCrunch and GigaOM”
– Product Management Then and Now
Cóż… ja też terefere.
The fact that vendors of cloud services and SaaS tools are seducing business managers into violating corporate policies by signing their own IT contracts is a governance issue that Boards need to stamp on before somebody takes their company down. And in the meantime IT needs to do some serious discovery and policing. These maverick business units are like children who have run away from...
Cauvin: Top 5 Prospect Interview Mistakes →
“I remember going through this realization myself. There was a point in 1995 when...”
– Schlep Blindness
“Since we did continuous releases, our software didn’t actually have...”
– Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998
“Nie oznacza to absolutnie, że przestałem wierzyć, iż zwinne praktyki i sama idea...”
– Battle for Agility » Coś się kończy, coś się zaczyna…
December 2011
23 posts
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with...”
– Binder-chuckers | The IT Skeptic
“I do like Apple’s take on the situation with new hires - hand off a...”
– How does your company/department deliver IT training | LinkedIn
We spend most of our days living with ourselves, our partners, our children, and our organizations. And maybe a dog. Or a chinchilla. A happy life should include feeling happy about the relationships that you maintain, with yourself, your spouse, your kids… and your colleagues. (And your chinchilla.)
I call it the T-Shirt Test. An organization passes the t-shirt test when employees will proudly...
When the Blogger team asked for design templates, it was really difficult to create anything appropriate devoid of content. Doug Bowman made a universal template that was minimalist and ended up on 20 million blogs. It was the best solution for the problem of designing where you don’t know the content. But it’s one of the only success solutions to this problem out there, which illustrates how...
Be Disloyal card
Coffee shops around the world have employed loyalty card schemes for many years, but now we’ve come across an interesting twist on the idea. In Singapore, a collaborate scheme aims to benefit eight of the city’s best independent cafés with the Be Disloyal disloyalty card.
The Be Disloyal disloyalty card — created by digital creative agency Antics, blogger Cortadito.sg and eight of Singapore’s...
(…) jedna z firm doradzający przy budowie galerii handlowych wydała ostatnio rekomendację, by w nowo budowanym centrum na ścianie wschodniej jako główny sklep spożywczy umieścić… dyskont typu Biedronka albo Lidl. Jeszcze niedawno taki ruch był nie do pomyślenia. Biedronka umacniająca się na pozycji lidera detalicznego handlu spożywczego jest bliska opanowania 10 proc. rynku. Po...
“YouTube mobile gets over 400M views a day (up 3x year/year), representing 13% of...”
– YouTube - Broadcast Yourself
I’ve already begun to see the more forward-thinking companies maturing in their thinking about how they use “named” business, technology, and management concepts, e.g., Scrum, Lean, Kanban, CMMI, ISO 9000, ITIL, COBIT, Devops, etc. There’s growing skepticism in the efficacy of popularized approaches. Executives are less likely to rush into using new ideas just because they’ve heard “the name”....
Nadal duża część klientów oczekuje kontaktu z doradcą w normalnych salonach. Do tego wprowadziliśmy do naszych wypożyczalni asortyment spożywczy i prawie 30 sekcji z winem, co cieszy się bardzo dużą popularnością wśród naszych klientów - mówi Marcin Wolszczak, dyrektor generalny w Beverly Hills Video. Ta jedna z największych ogólnopolskich sieci wypożyczalni filmów ma obecnie 39 salonów, choć...
“Crap Factoids are pure bull-excrement that almost sound like a fact, and will be...”
– Crap Factoid | The IT Skeptic
Similarly, Longreads.com gets about 100,000 unique visitors a month, founder Mark Armstrong told me. For this last week, publishers altogether got 21,230 referrals form Longreads’ curated picks. Despite this modest volume, Longreads’ 40,000+ community of referrers is growing rapidly at the rate of a thousand every two weeks or so.
Let’s talk business model. The Longreads team includes former...
“In early 2012, 37signals will introduce Basecamp Next and change the way people...”
– Basecamp Next: Get an invite.
Hipernet24 - kuriozalny e-mail
From: Hipernet24 <robot@hipernet24.pl> Subject: Świąteczne zakupy w hipernet24.pl Date: 8 grudnia 2011 12:02:30 CET To: Tomasz Skórski <XXXXXXXX@home.pl>
Jak każdego roku zwracamy się do naszych stałych Klientów z prośbą, aby zamówienia, jakie planujecie Państwo realizować w okresie przedświątecznym składać już teraz z jak największym wyprzedzeniem.
Z praktyki...