eWeek has a very interesting article on the man, Adam D’Angelo, and the company, Facebook, taking the Internet by storm on the back of their platform for developers. Basically, their applications platform is part openID/single sign-on, part toy box, and part mash-up server:
“If we weren’t going to do this [develop an enterprise mashup platform for developers], somebody else would,” Burton said. “Because you see it in the consumer world—I mean 3,000 apps on Facebook within three months. … Look at it, there are 3,000 applications on Facebook and Facebook doesn’t crash every night and the photos don’t get compromised every night. Why? Because they thought about exposing functionality through interfaces.” Via eWeek
No Comments » Posted on September 10th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
An article in the New York Times today was very cutely entitled “Steve Jobs: iCame, iSaw, iCaved”. It covered the author, David Carr’s, perceptions of Steve Jobs price dropping, price fixing and price blundering. He alluded briefly to the feelings of remorse that the early buyers of the iPhone were showing when before their eyes at the Apple store near Central Park in NYC the price dropped by a third. I’ve already let you know my thoughts on this. It also seems that Apple has renamed some of the earlier iPods as iPod Classics (for some reason I don’t think it’s going to be the same story as with Coca Cola Classic). You want you Coke classic but you want your technology cutting edge… even, futuristic.
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5 Comments » Posted on September 10th, 2007 by Dani Sevilla
When it comes to work-life (W-L) balance, look to Dan Hull for the answers:
For me, the point is and always has been making my/your life a work of art. That’s it. If you think there is something selfish or grandiose about that, fine. Art is intended to make sense of our world and ourselves. Choose your life, and then fill in the blanks. Blood, family and relationships for most of us will be the priority and a major part of the life canvas. You struggle, you grow, you surround yourself with people who stretch you, you work, you give and you increase love. Yet this stuff blends together–and needs to blend so we can be happy. For many of us, life and work are not capable of a bright-line separation if you love your existence, the people in it and what you do.
Hopefully, people in your life want you to chase a dream or two. It makes you happy. And, hey, communications technologies, and the lemming-like madness often surrounding it all, are no cure-all–but technologies do make work-life “blurring” possible, easier on others and often fun. Someone just said this all a lot better than I can or have here, and thanks to Stephanie West Allen of Idealawg, I just read it. See Marci Alboher’s piece in the New York Times small business section, “Blurring by Choice and Passion“.
Amen.
No Comments » Posted on September 10th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
I have to admit to a couple things: I helped the gang over at Hull McGuire start its premier legal blog (blawg), What About Clients, and I am a huge Dan Hull fan. That said, I would like to do a little bit of bragging. What About Clients is a very influential legal blog and has been cited in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. (Guess who Dan is talk to in the photo above.)
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2 Comments » Posted on September 10th, 2007 by Abraham Harrison
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