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Design for the Novice, Configure for the Pro

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

socalTECH

Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 technology to make submitting expense reports extremely easy. finance software such as Wesabe and Mint, and applied it to the corporate expense area.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 2.0. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

He shows data that the overwhelming majority of major enterprise in the US is currently adopting or looking to adopt social networking technology. As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. A (Very) Brief (and Selective) History in Computing.

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Microsoft Windows 8. Is it Game Changer?

Alon Schwartz

But the main reason why everyone wanted Windows was software. Everyone needed software because everything was implemented as software. had software you needed to install and there were many, millions to chose from, and they all run on Windows. Not just for consuming content but for sharing content (aka, web 2.0)

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. they released a new 2.0 You could just outspend.

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Interview with Raph Koster, Metaplace

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Today, San Diego-based Metaplace (www.metaplace.com), which develops virtual world software, is announcing a funding round from Charles River Ventures, Crescendo Ventures, and high profile investors Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. So the technology has been around for a very long time. Metaplace was formerly known as Areae.

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