Couldn’t agree more, Rafe on Labels versus folders, labels win. I have fallen in love with del.icio.us labels and started experimenting with them in Thunderbird, dumbing everything into one folder with lots of labeling.
Now if I could just do the same with my home direcory or My Documents. And if MovableType made it easier to label/categorize. Well Thunderbird needs more than 5 label options.
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Couldn’t agree more, Rafe on Labels versus folders, labels win. I have fallen in love with del.icio.us labels and started experimenting with them in Thunderbird, dumbing everything into one folder with lots of labeling.
Now if I could just do the same with my home direcory or My Documents. And if MovableType made it easier to label/categorize. Well Thunderbird needs more than 5 label options.
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Warez and Shareware Developers
Nick Bradbury, developer of TopStyle, HomeSite and FeedDemon, did a test to see how many were using warez’d versions of TopStyle or more acurately how many ran TopStyle once. Now the one big mosterously gigantic hole in his logic, how many first runers would have been actual purchasers? I’m sure that small developer software sales are lost, but I’m betting that the amount is actually much smaller than anyone would expect.
The same situation applies to movies and music online. Sure there is rampent downloading. But how many would have been a purchase absent of the downloading option? Again I’m betting much smaller than anyone would expect.
Eventually that situation will change. Sometime around when the current highschoolers are running things. Just like the American Factory Worker, digital content creators are going to lose those nice fat cushy margins. So you have a choice come up with a new buisness model for getting money into the hands of digital creators. Digital rights management and laws that don’t mirror the reality of the users wishes just don’t cut it.
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Warez and Shareware Developers
Nick Bradbury, developer of TopStyle, HomeSite and FeedDemon, did a test to see how many were using warez’d versions of TopStyle or more acurately how many ran TopStyle once. Now the one big mosterously gigantic hole in his logic, how many first runers would have been actual purchasers? I’m sure that small developer software sales are lost, but I’m betting that the amount is actually much smaller than anyone would expect.
The same situation applies to movies and music online. Sure there is rampent downloading. But how many would have been a purchase absent of the downloading option? Again I’m betting much smaller than anyone would expect.
Eventually that situation will change. Sometime around when the current highschoolers are running things. Just like the American Factory Worker, digital content creators are going to lose those nice fat cushy margins. So you have a choice come up with a new buisness model for getting money into the hands of digital creators. Digital rights management and laws that don’t mirror the reality of the users wishes just don’t cut it.
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Sun’s 3D Desktop
Sun’s latest 3D Desktop looks potentially intresting. Hope it isn’t end like other Sun desktop offerings like say NeWS.
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Sun’s 3D Desktop
Sun’s latest 3D Desktop looks potentially intresting. Hope it isn’t end like other Sun desktop offerings like say NeWS.
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Patent in Software
Why patents cripple software development. Unless they are ignored.
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User Interface Hierarchies Rant
Russell has a good User Interface Hierarchies Rant. I too have to admit think in hierarchies and outlines
. But given that I have a 60+ gig mp3 collection wonder if the iPod navigation would work well with so many entries. I expect the iPod navagation to be kinda like what Churchill had to say about Democracy, Democracy is the worst form of government
except for all those others that have been tried.
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Zeroconf Backend
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