- In Silicon Valley, designers emerge as rock stars | Reuters
The headline is not quite it might imply. Designers are an important part of the team, but not necessarily the lead players: "In the latest generation of innovation, heavily concentrated in applications for mobile devices and social networks, and relying on ever-cheaper cloud-computing services, success depends not on whiz-bang technology, but rather, on a subtle sense of how to make features useful and engaging." (startups hiring user_experience design dopost )
- O2 Olympic venue in row over security against legal photography | Sport | The Guardian
Aargh! "Media and civil liberties groups have expressed alarm after the managers of an Olympic venue pledged to intercept and question anyone seen photographing or filming the site, even from public land, and defended security guards who wrongly tried to invoke terrorist laws to prevent footage being shot of the arena." (olympics rights law photography )
- Why Path is no Instagram — Tech News and Analysis
Path is not like Instagram. And the sooner we stop trying to compare the two, the sooner we can properly understand and comment on Path. (dopost instagram path )
- Chartbeat: The Next Generation | Chartbeat
"Today, I’m excited to announce the next chapter in Chartbeat’s history: a new round of funding, new look, new dashboard, and a whole bunch of new features. That’s a lot to get through, but I promise to be brief." (web_analytics investment chartbeat )
- Why I Won’t Sign Your NDA
Curious. Developer says ideas can't be reasonably kept confidential, so he will almost never sign an NDA. I've never seen such broad-brush NDAs. (dopost legal ndas contracts confidentiality )
- Chris Granger – Light Table – a new IDE concept
"Light Table is based on a very simple idea: we need a real work surface to code on, not just an editor and a project explorer. We need to be able to move things around, keep clutter down, and bring information to the foreground in the places we need it most." (dopost video software_development ide )
- Proprietary lobby triumphs in first open standards showdown – Public Sector IT
"Software patent heavyweights piled into the first public meeting of the Cabinet Office consultation on open standards on 4 April, conquering the meeting ballot with a resounding call to scrap the government's policy on open standards. Open source and open standards campaigners complained they hadn't been invited to the Round Table event, the proceedings of which Cabinet Office will use to decide the fate of its beleaguered open standards policy." (dopost open_standards uk government patents )
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