Saturday, January 31, 2015

likes

One observation from the Knoxville testers has been the ambiguous meaning of a “like.” Clicking that button to presumably express approval on a story has different import depending on your relationship to the author.
 via medium

Thats the biggest reason why I don't like stuff on Facebook. Its just too complicated with the different sorts of people I have as friends on facebook. 

Saturday, January 10, 2015

iTunes

I've been reading a lot of posts from people complaining about apple software. A lot of the complaints center around iTunes, and the issues it brings up. To me the solution is simple. iTunes is doing too much, and the functionality should be split up. There should be a separate application for syncing with mobile devices, and a separate application for the store. Quicktime already exists as a brand for video, add all the video player functionality there. iTunes started out as a music player, it should remain as such. 

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...