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Is this awesome? I'm not entirely sure this is awesome, but it has at least some of the components that go into something that's awesome.
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This is a great addition to Get Satisfaction that UserVoice already had. It's good that they're paying attention, but the main weakness of GS is that you have to redirect people to the Get Satisfaction interface and theme, which quite frankly doesn't mesh with many Web sites. And the Help Center app isn't as fully-featured, unfortunately.
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Check the OSX benchmarking numbers below. The CPU usage is why you'll never see Flash on the iPhone, and one of the reasons I specifically avoid using Flash as much as possible in web development.
Monthly Archives: October 2008
"Managers manage a process…"
“Managers manage a process they’ve seen before, and they react to the outside world, striving to make that process as fast and as cheap as possible.
Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change that you believe in… leaders have followers. Managers have employees.
Managers make widgets. Leaders make change.
Change? Change is frightening, and to many people who would be leaders, it seems more of a threat than a promise. That’s too bad, because the future belongs to our leaders, regardless of where they work or what they do.”–Seth Godin: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
To Borrow a Question from Roger Waters, Is There Anybody Out There?
I was taking a pace through my blog settings and realized that at some point I had closed comments to only registered users.
I had not meant for that to happen and it certainly isn’t my preference, so I’ve gone ahead and opened comments up. Now, you must have one approved comment to the credit of your email address and the system will allow you to comment whenever.
So I ask the question: who’s reading? Please step forward and identify yourself. Link to your own site if you would like; if there’s a person or two I don’t know who is reading on a regular basis, then I wouldn’t mind taking a look at your site in turn.
I’m interested in hearing from you!
"The reverse side…"
“The reverse side also has a reverse side.”–Japanese proverb
links for 2008-10-20
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This is a company that gave me the only shot at a job I could find during a pretty dark year of weirdness—and through that opportunity helped me to become a better leader. It's too bad, but when you worked there, you could tell that the whole company was simply playing catch-up almost all the time. Poor corporate leadership, irritating hiring and promotion practices, the specter of once having been commission-based, and a general lack of morale seem to add up to bankruptcy.
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A template for a completely non-legally-binding agreement between friends before discussing an awesome idea. Not quite an NDA, not quite a free discussion, but an understanding that's needed while someone runs an idea past other people to check for idiocy.
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Great article on why both publishers and commenters should be taking more advantage of the Gravatar service. I should also add that it would be nice if more publishing platforms would likewise support the service. There's no charge to the developer or publisher.
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Do you want to know why I worry? This is why I worry.
"We are alone, absolutely alone…"
“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.”–Maurice Maeterlinck
"A rock star is not someone…"
“A rock star is not someone who takes the temperature, who gauges the marketplace before he creates his “art”. A rock star is someone who needs to create and is willing to tolerate the haters along with the fans. He’s someone who incites controversy just by existing. That’s what we lost in the dash for cash. Unique voices.
I’m not saying we haven’t ended up with some pleasant music, but it just hasn’t hit you in the gut, it’s the aural equivalent of Splenda, it might do the trick, but it’s not the real thing. The real thing grabs your attention, drives down deep into your heart and lodges itself there.
A rock star doesn’t follow conventions, doesn’t go disco or add drum machines just because everybody else does. A rock star exists in his own unique space, and if you met him you probably wouldn’t like him. Because he tends to be self-focused to the point of being narcissistic. Because he cares. He needs to get his message out.”–Bob Lefsetz
"The man who insists on seeing…"
“The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.”–Henri-Frédéric Amiel
links for 2008-10-17
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Discounting the fact that charging for additional content that's theoretically already in the hands of consumers is bad, the fact that they denied that this was going to happen in order to stage the announcement makes Namco Bandai much less trustworthy. It sure would be nice if more companies would take cues from Criterion Games and Burnout.
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I've been using the 2.7 "hemmorhage" version for a while now, and the interface for WordPress has seen several reinventions just over the last few weeks while the team was nailing down the final look and feel of it. I have to say that after seeing its evolution, and now seeing more of the final product, what they have done to change the interface is very nice. Fewer clicks, more information at once, and a desire to re-think the entire game have lead to solid design decisions.
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My excitement and anticipation for this—especially if it were to have online play—cannot be measured in numbers anything short of astronomical. It will look like trash on an HDTV, but I don't care.
"We live in a world…"
“We live in a world where we have the leverage to make things happen, the desire to do work we believe in, and a marketplace that is begging us to be remarkable. And yet, in the middle of these changes, we still get stuck.
Stuck following archaic rules.
Stuck in industries that not only avoid change but actively fight it.
Stuck in fear of what our boss will say, stuck because we’re afraid we’ll get into trouble.
Most of all, we’re stuck acting like managers or employees, instead of like the leaders we could become. We’re embracing a factory instead of a tribe.”–Seth Godin: Tribes, We Need You to Lead Us
