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• 08.17.07
  Social design learnings design | (1)

  I just read, for the second or third time, Joshua Porter's advise about "Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them". And I think his thoughts are spot on. I could comment on many of the points that he makes, but especially the one about focusing on too many things and the Delicious lesson resonates with me.The Delicious lesson states that personal value precedes any social value. The social benefits of an application are just network externalities of people's interactions. To get the first people using the application, you must have something of value to them. ...
• 03.09.07
  The Change Function design, ideas, miscellaneous | (2)

  I just skimmed through one of the many business books I have ordered the past weeks. I tend to order almost every book I get recommended on some of the blogs that i follow - and several of these have stacked up on my desk. But, let's get to the point. The Change Function: Why Some Technologies Take Off and Others Crash and Burn has a few simple ideas that one should get from it. It preaches the user oriented view of product development and marketing that is so popular now. He proposes that technologist have been focusing too much ...
• 09.25.06
  Creating a social layer advice, design | (1)

  I just found an outstanding presentation that Tom Coates (who writes plasticbag.org) gave last week at the Future of Web Apps conference at Brad Feld's blog. It explains some of the considerations one needs to make when trying to put sociability into a web applications. Recommended not so much for its details, but for its short and sweet overview of the big issues.
• 09.13.06
  Combining AJAX, Flash and internetness design, development, technology | (1)

  One of the first challenges we faced in Second Brain was how to build an application that have all the rich functionality that we needed, but still had the necessary opacity to support the ideal of internet as an open and connected architecture. We didn't want to compromise on functionality, we wanted to forget about the old page paradigm, and we wanted it to have the look and feel of a desktop application, while still taking advantage of the benefits of the internet platform. Quite a challenge for the architects. The coming RIA wars: A roundup of the Web's new face ...
• 05.18.06
  New Design, But No More Details design, development | (0)

  Check out our new and revamped design - especially the new logo. It is based on the same concept that I made a year ago, but our graphic designers made it look a lot more professional. And they added a new color, some kind of purple. Not exactly a traditional corporate color, but I like it. It is distinct and powerful. We are now moving into another phase of the project. The development of the first version of Second Brain is progressing, and we know where we are going with this. But we need to be careful with our secrets. Continue ...
• 03.20.06
  We’ve got a new logo design, start-up | (0)

  Any half-decent company needs a real logo. We've had one for a few weeks, but I just gave it a simple upgrade for our participation in the Seed Forum International Event in Oslo. Sorry I haven't posted anything on that yet. It's quite exiting as we will present the Second Brain business concept to invited investors in Norway. Continue Reading...

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