July 2008
8 posts
Acre in Action
Freebase is putting the finishing touches on Acre, which will allow data-driven applications to be quickly developed and hosted at freebaseapps.com
FMDB is a good example of a typical use-case:
Acre and the recent UI improvements have solidified Freebase in my eyes as a definitively better alternative to even the best Semantic Mediawiki examples - like Food Finds.
Sure, it’s the...
If it were only so simple...
via ars techica (via hacker news)
Bashing the Awesome Bar
A couple weeks ago, Daring Fireball posted this screenshot, adding the disclaimer that “this is not a joke.”
A total mess. A textbook example of bad UI design.
Right?
#The Space-Time Paradox
37 signals soon suggested that this wasn’t an example of bad design so much as it was design targeted to the repetitive requirements of active users. Ryan referred to Tufte’s...
Using Facebook For Efficient Vaccine Distribution
via Michael Graham Richard.
“You break up the general social network into sub-networks, and then you target the most important nodes of these sub-networks and so on until you run out of vaccines.
The challenge will be to get good information about social networks.”
The Living Is Easy
This page about the Brain has several levels of explanation. As in, you can choose to read the novice, intermediate, or expert version.
Of course, this feature is as old as the educational video game industry.
But what if, like any other microformat, difficulty levels were to be standardized, such as in my new favorite software of the moment: Ontological MediaWiki. Too bad I can’t find...
True Love, Job Recruitment Style
Well-capitalized start-up seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix
developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet. You must have
experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable)
systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time
that most competent people think possible. You should have a BS, MS,
or PhD in Computer Science or the equivalent. Top-notch...