I believe Craig Mod is right in his vision of what’s to come for publishing. Everyone in publishing should read this.
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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
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.
The Economist: “In The World in 2013, which is published today, we predict that the internet will become a mostly mobile medium. Who will be the winners and losers?”.
Choose a pattern and print it. Nice tool by countryman Rastislav Blaha.
I firmly believe, now more than ever, that the tablet is taking the place in the hearts of many consumers as the new personal computer. This again cements in my mind the fact that this market will be much larger than the notebook and desktop market ever was and I believe even closer in size to the smartphone market than people realize.
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What I would be worried about if I am an Apple competitor is that the iPad and perhaps specifically the iPad Mini, becomes the tablet that large portions of the market cut their teeth on.
Via @asymco
In an article “A Trillion-Dollar Transfer Of Wealth Is About To Hit Silicon Valley” Dan Lyons writes something I happen to be in agreement with for last 6 years:
Enterprise customers have been locked into overpriced, underperforming software and equipment for a decade or more, and the’ve been loath to spend money to change things. But now it seems a huge transformation is about to occur, driven by mobile devices, cloud platforms and the software-as-a-service business model.
But his vision is too narrow. This is not just about building better products against SAP or Microsoft. This is about opening whole new market niches which couldn’t be approached before. Ultimately it will be about more than trillion dollars.
Coincidentally, I will be speaking about this next week at FOWA in Prague.
Paul Graham has written another one of his essays.
Live in the future and build what seems interesting. Strange as it sounds, that’s the real recipe.
Nice collection of jQuery plugins with search. (Though I would prefer tags.)
Via @elfineer
Hidden features, reduced discoverability, cognitive overhead from dual environments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low information density. Too bad.
Horace Dediu in this week’s Critical Path:
The market is changing so quickly and the value is so enormous in the marketplace. This is the future of computing and I’m not saying just personal computing I’m saying all computing. This is in many ways the future of civilization and how money is made. The stakes could not be higher.
Do yourself a favor and listen to it.
Some good thinking done by Chris Norström. Solves the confusion of the classical “iPhone slider”, where you are not sure if the visible status (OFF) is the active one, or you have to switch to get to it.
Very nice stencil by good people at Viget.
You get all the Bootstrap UI element but even better, you get all the great Glyphicons not as PNGs but as Omnigraffle shapes allowing you to resize them without losing quality and to color them or doing anything else you could do with a shape.
All in all, this is my new favourite wireframing stencil.
Quick tip: To install, just drag the stencil file to the OmniGraffle icon at the Dock. Then just press Cmd + 0 to show the Stencils panel.
Article written by Kontra and goes along these lines.
Apple’s software problems aren’t dark linen, Corinthian leather or torn paper. In fact, Apple’s software problems aren’t much about aesthetics at all… they are mostly about experience. To paraphrase Ive’s former boss, Apple’s software problems aren’t about how they look, but how they work.
Via Daring Fireball
Stefan Klocek writing a good one for the Smashing Magazine:
In this article, we’ll introduce you to a strategy for fixing the broken experience that starts with surface improvements, goes progressively deeper into structural issues and ends with a big organizational shift.
The promise of the Surface was that it could deliver a best-in-class tablet experience, but then transform into the PC you needed when heavier lifting was required. Instead of putting down my tablet and picking up my laptop, I would just snap on my keyboard and get my work done. But that’s not what the Surface offers, at least not in my experience. It does the job of a tablet and the job of a laptop half as well as other devices on the market, and it often makes that job harder, not easier. Instead of being a no-compromise device, it often feels like a more-compromise one.
No compromise is bullshit.