I believe Craig Mod is right in his vision of what’s to come for publishing. Everyone in publishing should read this.
Archive: December 2012
Podcast tip:
Anderson argues that the plummeting prices of 3D printers and other tabletop design and manufacturing tools allows for individuals to enter manufacturing and for manufacturing to become customized in a way that was unimaginable until recently. Anderson explores how social networking interacts with this technology to create a new world of crowd-sourced design and production.
Go the EconTalk site where you can listen, download and follow a bunch of links.
I like the analogy that the 3D printers are in similar stage to where personal computing where in the Homebrew computer club ages on 1976.
Via @kober
You may try the webapp and read how they made it.
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This 5 minute video by @claychristensen is the most influential thing I’ve watched in 2012: youtube.com/watch?v=VmbSpT…
— Jason Fried (@jasonfried) December 14, 2012
Good people at Online MBA have sent me a link to this video.
Horace Dediu brilliant as usual:
Microsoft’s problem is not that it has difficulty offering an operating system for tablets. The problem is that the economics of both systems and application software on tablets is destructive to its margins.
4 kb of uncompressed JavaScript allows you to use <input type="color"> even for IE6+.
HTML5 takes another huge step forward with Chrome Packaged Apps. Packaged Apps open-up the desktop to HTML5 developers. Reusing all of the skills mastered for the web and mobile, Packaged Apps empowers developers to create complete app experiences that can be run anywhere you find Chrome: Windows, Mac, Linux, and, of course, Chrome OS!These apps do not run in a “browser.” They run as independent, standalone apps with their own shell. Chrome powers the entire experience, but for users, Packaged Apps are not a browser experience. They’re an app experience.
Definitely worth a look.
Alex MacCaw writes about CSS custom filters, autocomplete API, Google Chrome Apps, ECMAScript 6 and Web Compotents.
Another piece the my mosaic of ideas. This outtake from book “Anything You Want
I am trying to propagate one obvious to me: Web apps are ideally positioned to be very successful in getting done a variety of jobs for businesses and make a lot of money along the way. For now, that seems uninteresting to others.
Thanks to Jiří Sekera for reminding me about this one.