Microsoft shot for consistency with Metro, putting the square interface on its tablets, phones and PCs under something it called three-screens and the cloud. Yet Microsoft was wrong to lump PC users in with device users, as it turned out neither customers nor developers wanted Metro on their PC – they hated it.
There is a notion that Metro was a failure there, which would be good to see the proof points in (low Window 8 uptake?
EnterpriseWeb grows business with its enterprise- and cloud-friendly application layer (451 Report)
I recently checked in with EnterpriseWeb and wrote-up a 451 report on them. They’re an intriguing company, with big ambitions. 451 clients can read the full report, but here’s the 451 Take:
In the context of our devops coverage, we often speak about the ongoing need for new application development (appdev) approaches caused by emerging drivers such as mobile, social and cloud platforms. Cloud-native apps beg for different architectures than the classic, on-premises three-tiered approach, while the need to integrate with more services than ever has been charging along since the days of mashups-cum-composite applications.
Change the world, get all the marbles
Silicon Valley nurtures a winner-take-all culture that thinks in terms of monopolies and absolute market dominance. The concept of sharing a market with competitors is anathema
Change the world, get all the marbles
Rebecca Greenfield, writing for Fast Company, traces the return of the internet newsletter to the death of Google Reader. A representative from TinyLetter told her that there was an uptick in users just as Google pulled the plug last year. Some of us switched to other RSS readers, nevertheless a number of bloggers saw their community and traffic take a hit, and posted less as a result.
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We subscribe to newsletters because we like someone and take interest in their unique points-of-view. Unless I am mistaken, hate-subscribing isn’t actually a thing.
Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss
As pointed to in the last part of the quote, part of the allure of email newsletters is more perfectly “capturing” (I don’t know what more concise word to use) your audience and directly knowing who they are. There’s much value in that for people who are trying to establish their independence by building up a “captured” audience - that’s what, for example, Scoble’s value is: he’s a “channel” of “eyeballs” that follow him around. That may all sound creepy - feel free to use the word “conversation” if you want to be all Cluetrain - it’s all synonyms to me.
Also, this is another case of the cobbler’s kids wearing no shoes for me.
Tasktop receives $11m series A to fund its ALM and devops integration ambitions (451 Report)
One of the companies I’ve followed closely over the years took funding recently, for the first time. This short Analyst Note covers the funding, including this quick market overview:
We expect to see more interest in the development space, driven not only by devops but also by companies’ increasing desire to use custom-written software to expand their business. Vendors like Atlassian are also riding this wave – Atlassian reported fiscal 2013 revenue of $149m for its ALM offerings.
Passengers cannot leave babies in an infant carrier and attempt to put it through the X-ray machine.
Just in case you were wondering…
Least you think that’s a joke, check the TSA blog, which says: “Yes, we’ve been asked many times, and no, you can’t.”
And if you guys remember, JavaWorld 2000, 2001. Remember when they hired Britney Spears to be the spokesperson for Java.com? Like the world’s worst effort to attempt to be kind of this emotive brand. It was awful.
Adam Gross covering developer marketing in his Heavybit talk
Work, it's where you work
The design for Wieden+Kennedy New York moves away from the office-as-playground to put work back at the heart of creative work.
Work, it’s where you work
"Hell is other people," but don't let that stop you
Lot and lots of discussion about culture and culture change. This discussion has been going on since forever, and if we are being frank with ourselves, it isn’t going to change dramatically soon.
So what to do? Don’t lets make the culture change discussion stop us from doing things. Have a go, fix what you can right now.
“Hell is other people,” but don’t let that stop you
I think it’s a bit unreasonable to expect a Web application circa 2013 to be still up and runnable in 2053.