A wonderful post by Joshua Porter on the main reasons web apps fail. I thing the seven points can be resumed to: long-term focus on doing useful thing for your user, not anyone else. But be sure to read the original for details.
Tags: web-20
Add comment May 5th, 2006
It’s been a longtime since I’ve used any news aggregator (I used to have one of my own back in 2000/2001) and I haven’t seriously thought about sticking with any. Until I saw NetVibes. This is what I like:
I’ve seen only one bug so far (low for a beta), but a fairly annoying one - feed URLs get reset sometimes when moving boxes around.
Tags: web-20
4 comments May 4th, 2006
Dharmesh Shah at OnStartups.com disagrees with 37Signals (part 1, part 2) on the push for fewer features and fewer options. Be sure you read the comments.
The most interesting point is about non-overlapping feature sets that many people forget about:
Many can (and have) argued that nobody uses more than 20% of the features in Word. That’s likely true. The issue is that it is a different set of features for each user, and within that set, one or more features are very important.
However I think the need for customizability is overrated and 37signals take a right approach. Essentially it is a question of diminishing marginal returns: some people will undoubtedly benefit from additional options(large monitor example), but most people will benefit from the time invested in other aspects of the system.
Tags: web-20
Add comment May 4th, 2006
37signals Preaches “Less” For Success at Frank Gruber’s blog relays the key theme from 37signals’s talk at DePaul University - Less is more:
Tags: web-20
2 comments May 4th, 2006
Via Logic+Emotion, a pointer to categoriz, a link to a huge set of web 2.0 sites.
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Add comment May 4th, 2006
Via John TP, a pointer to Keotag, a new metasearch engine for tags: search for the same tag on various services including Digg, 43 Things, del.icio.us, Technorati. It’s a show of how much time I’ve been away from the whole Web 2.0 thing when I don’t recognize 80% of the services.
It also has a very handy generators for tag links and “Add to del.icio.us” type links.
The interface is very clean, but some kind of “related tags” exploring would be very useful.
Add comment May 3rd, 2006
TechCrunch writes about a new personalized news service, Spotback. The idea certainly sounds intriguing - rating stories as more or less interesting using a slider will in a time give you a tailor-made news service.
I’ll try it using over the next few days as the concept and overall design is appealing, but as it is right now it suffers from clutter and “what do I do” confusion (a better blank slate design would be in order).
Privacy issues would also make me wonder about appeal to mainstream audiences.
Add comment May 3rd, 2006
As CNN reported yesterday, Bolivian president Evo Morales ordered nationalization of natural gas industry. I honestly believe this is a decision that will hurt Bolivia in the long run: state-owned companies suffer from acute sense of myopia in terms of extracting money now vs. investing in exploration & production.
In the Soviet Union, for example, maybe one third of all hydrocarbons underground in a particular well were extracted in a rush to move to the next one. In developing countries, the tendency is to suck the money out of the monopoly for electoral purposes while neglecting to find additional reserves.
Update: Nice round up of reactions to Bolivia nationalization over at Off Topic
Tags: bolivia, politics, energy
Add comment May 2nd, 2006
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