Archive for July, 2011
My daily readings 07/31/2011
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July 28, 2011-
Quora Testing User Credits For “Ask To Answer” Questions | TechCrunch
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Anyvite | San Diego Hacker News Meetup 19
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Our 19th monthly meetup. Same place, and still 7:30pm Friday. New members are always welcome!
Please RSVP! The owner likes to set aside tables for our group, and we like to provide an accurate-as-possible headcount ahead of time.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/broadway-coffee-san-diego
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This is my first note.Cool
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My daily readings 07/27/2011
July 27, 2011-
Around The World and Back Again: Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
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I am crouched low on the carpeted steps of my apartment building’s old staircase, bent over into something resembling the fetal position. There is a skylight overhead; the sun’s hazy glare makes me want to close my eyes, and not have to see for a while. But instead, I take this opportunity – with head resting heavily on the step above me – to record this moment in writing.
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My daily readings 07/26/2011
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July 24, 2011-
Daring Fireball: On Succeeding Steve Jobs
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Everyone wants this to be an interesting story, but it’s not. There is no intrigue. If Jobs steps down in the foreseeable future his replacement will almost certainly be Tim Cook. Utter credibility on Wall Street, and much respect within Apple. He’s already run the company while Jobs has been on leave. The knock against him is that he’s an operations and finance guy, not a product design guy. Ideally Apple would find someone just like Steve Jobs, but there exists no such person. There will not be a next Steve Jobs. There will be a next CEO.
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The obvious structure for a post-Jobs Apple has Cook as CEO, doing mostly what he’s already been doing as COO. What he already does at Apple is what most CEOs do at other companies. Final word on product design goes to the senior vice presidents: Scott Forstall (iOS), Jonathan Ive (hardware design), and Phil Schiller (marketing and, perhaps, Mac).1
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My daily readings 07/23/2011
July 23, 2011-
[Video] Mastering Gamification by Gabe Zichermann | Brajeshwar
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谷歌前员工讲述Google+之战：Facebook错失机会_互联网_科技时代_新浪网
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几年前，当谷歌CEO刚刚开始关注社交网络和用户身份时，一位名叫保罗·亚当斯(Paul Adams)的用户体验研究人员制作了一份名为《现实生活社交网络》(Real Life Social Network)的幻灯片。
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我笑了，而且非常怀疑这种说法。Facebook内部有着一种黑客文化，他们的工程师数量不多，而且会使用PHP等反应迅速且适应力极强的工具来开发——与谷歌的行动缓慢相比，Facebook的速度尤其迅速。彼时，200多名谷歌工程师用了3个月时间却只开发出了一款丑陋而充满漏洞的演示品，所有人都认为我们必败无疑。
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果然，我看到TechCrunch刊登了Facebook正在开发秘密项目的报道。我周围的工程师都越发沮丧，有些人离开翡翠海，并加盟了其他项目组，还有一些直接跳槽到Facebook。我记得很清楚，当时已经没有人再听亚当斯的话了。很多人显然对他将幻灯片公开的行为感到不满。他当时准备以此为基础出版一本书，而我却听说谷歌曾经试图阻止或推迟这本书的出版。
于是，亚当斯最终跳槽到Facebook。我当时认为这个项目将就此终结。翡翠海项目之外的工程师都在发表讽刺性的评论，并且认为该项目在发布前就会失败。
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那时，我想起了好友圈团队负责人说过的话：“我们知道其中的危险，但我们打赌Facebook不会对产品作出如此深刻的调整。”
我原本以为他的意思是说，Facebook缺乏足够的灵活性对技术作出必要的调整。但我错了，真正的问题在于，他们不愿从根本上改变方向。考虑到他们的用户群如此庞大而忠诚，这也无可厚非。
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这两家公司分别在凭借“Like”和“+1”按钮吸引大型网站与之合作。而移动生态系统也会产生巨大的影响。目前存在很多变数，而我所强调的一些事情最终可能不会对结果产生什么影响。
然而考虑到现存的因素，我预计：Google+不会夺走Facebook的王者宝座。但它的确会变成一款强大而有竞争力的产品，成为人们期待已久的另一种选择，就像是Chrome与微软IE的关系一样。Facebook仍将是最大的社交网站，但却难以继续占据压倒性的市场份额。
我预计，当格局稳定后，王者一说将不复存在。(书聿)
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My daily readings 07/22/2011
July 22, 2011-
UX Movement – Articles on Interface Design
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Hacker News | Our Next Chapter at Etsy: A Letter to the Community
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This is good news. Chad will be the type of CEO that understands code and how innovation in that area will lead to new opportunities for Etsy. The history of the Internet is littered with great dot-com ideas that were ruined by clueless CEOs. Chad has done a great job in building an awesome engineering team at Etsy. I think the challenge going forward is to increase the marketing and awareness of what Etsy offers.
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Our Next Chapter at Etsy: A Letter to the Community | The Etsy Blog
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Hacker News | Learn JavaScript
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I think the first step is understanding that there is JavaScript (the language), then there is the browser’s Document Object Model (DOM) and “HTML5″ APIs. The JavaScript language is used in more places than just browsers (e.g. Rhino and Node.js) and doesn’t change very rapidly. The DOM and APIs vary more across browsers and get new features with just about every browser release.
I’d recommend learning the language first, then the basics of the DOM and subscribing to the main browser’s blogs to keep up with their changes.
If you just want a site to learn JavaScript, I’d highly recommend https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript (as other people have too). Mozilla’s docs are top-notch. They’re a wiki so sign up and help make them even better.
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Hacker News | Why I Hate Frameworks
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BenjiSmith puts it similarly in a comment halfway down:
A library is something *contained* within my code. A framework is a *container* for my application.
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But even as sites like Mashable have thrived, others have found Google+ much less hospitable. Yesterday Google+ took down ABC News Radio’s profile, much to the chagrin of its the company’s digital platform manager Dan Patterson.
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Boing Boing spoke with Google about the issue and was told that brand account would be going live within a few months. They took down their official Boing Boing profile and replaced it with an intern who posted news links. But Xeni Jardin wasn’t ready to stop asking why companies like Mashable and Ford seemed to be getting special treatment. “You can’t ask orgs to simply not engage with such a powerful traffic mover. Not when Mashable has 72K followers or whatever. You can’t just ask other brands to chill and wait until [whenever],” she wrote on Google+.
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Hilarious and Surprising Predictions of the Future…From the 1960s! (video) | Singularity Hub
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Nothing should make a futurist more wary than looking at the history of the profession and seeing how hilarious its mistakes have been. Jetpacks, flying cars, death rays…the future isn’t quite what the past hoped it would be
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This first clip, identified as created in 1966 speculated as to what the typical American household would be like in the far off year of 1999. Remarkably it predicts the importance of the household computer quite accurately. It also does fairly well anticipating Amazon, e-commerce, e-banking, webcams, emails and faxes, and spreadsheets (Quicken, maybe?). The hardware and design is completely off, but the ideas are all there, which is pretty amazing. Even the final segment, which supposes the home computer to updated automatically, is right…it just supposes those upgrades will come via hardware rather than the continuous stream of software patches that we have going on in the background today.
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My daily readings 07/21/2011
July 21, 2011-
How we used Justin Bieber trend on twitter to get hits to our startup – Part 1 – Geekybuddha
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2. Whatthetrend.com – The site let’s you know, why a particular term is trending on twitter. This is, I supposed done by users of website, curated by moderators. This website will help you in understanding twitter trends better.
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At around 6am in morning, when I switched on my monitor, I found that Justin Bieber had reached 10million followers on twitter and hence #10Million Beliebers was trending on twitter. Justin Bieber fans are young kids, who don’t care much about anything else, loves to click whatever comes their way, I was studying them from a while, I also talked with some of them over some fan chat rooms, I was amazed about how blindly they follow everything Justin.
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