Started working on a tiny Rails-app called Elenco (Italian for ‘list’). It is basically a reformulation of the classic ’company directory’:
- Firstname
- Lastname
- Etc.
Such a mundane task for people to find other people within your organisation/corporation, but most of the times the solution offered: just sucks! Hopefully this will solve the problem for me and my colleagues. I will scrutinize the ‘design’ with the Laws of Simplicity.
The screens are in Dutch but I guess you get the idea. And yes this probably exists… I mean it has too! I just couldn’t find it.
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Striking example of how a hostel in Milan (Italy) La Cordata preferes their own holiday over earning money. Assuming a peak of foreigners visiting Italy in august…
The image below illustrates the rise and fall of Google Chrome versions. On the Analytics timeline , from beginning this year until the end of july, you see the rise and fall of Chrome 11 (inc. minor releases), and starting June 7th (red indicator line) the rise of Chrome 12.
Although I generally believe generally browser innovation is good thing. It might make some enterprise/corporations uneasy with Chrome’s “power” to add and drop features per version.
Or to speak with Eric S. Raymond:
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
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Interesting video with Sherry Turkle (MIT) on her latest book “Alone Together“.
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