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Le Web…
For the first time since 2004 I’m not at Le Web this year.
Why?
Simply I wasn’t willing to pay the entrance fee to listen to people talk about startup funding for two days. Every year, there was less of interest to me and more about startups.
This year was the tipping point.
However, I’m still interested and I recommend Adam Tinworth’s reports on events; and the snow.
Funnily, Adam was the last person I spoke to at last year’s event. To me he’s the full-stop on the Le Web period of my life.
Message to Congress…
President Mitch…
Scripting News: President Mitch McConnell
Good name for a president if nohing else.
Glide 2…
I find this endlessly facinating.
UI for Tablets…
“Graham’s piece reminds me of what I consider the central hook to a great app for these tablets: that it should seem, when you’re using it, that the entire device was meant for it. E.g., a good chess game for the iPhone should make the iPhone itself feel like a chess playing device. When you’re in Mobile Safari, it feels like you’re holding a dedicated web browsing device. Only when you’re in the Phone app does the iPhone feel like a phone.”
This hits it on the nail. Although I’d never thought about it like this before. It explains why something as simple as the calendar app on the iPad is so satisfying and why I love Taska.
Think of the UI design like this and you’ll never want a keyboard or even a silly Playstation keypad on your phone. It also explains why those Swiss army knife utility apps are so unsatisfying.
The founding fathers…
“The Founding Fathers originally said, they put certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. It wasn’t you were just a citizen and you got to vote. Some of the restrictions, you know, you obviously would not think about today. But one of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you’re a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you’re not a property owner, you know, I’m sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.”