Letters Remain

Category: technology

  • More Interaction Design Patterns

    A huge library of interaction design patterns; from accordion navigation to virtual product display. [This library is] a reference or basic ‘toolkit’ you can use when designing user experiences. It is no substitute for creative design, it simply seeks to describe what we know and have learned about solutions you will find abundantly on the…

  • Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

    Bruce Schneier on Man-in-the-Middle attacks: The Wall Street Journal reported how this gambit played out in Colombia [FARC tricked into releasing 15 hostages]: “The plan had a chance of working because, for months, in an operation one army officer likened to a ‘broken telephone,’ military intelligence had been able to convince Ms. Betancourt’s captor, Gerardo…

  • Viral Videos: Analysis and Classification

    Mike Laurie analyses and classifies classic viral videos. There are exactly one hundred million billion new viral marketing campaigns seeded every 10 minutes – the vast majority are completely dire and destined to fail. So what separates success from failure? Well, the best appear to exhibit similar patterns and by using these patterns in your…

  • Build a Fully Functioning Web 2.0 Business in 66.5 Hours

    In 2007 Matthew Inman created Mingle2, a fully functioning online dating business/website, in just 66.5 hours. From concept to launch. 6 months and 2 million visitors later, it was acquired by a competitor. He shared his experiences in the aptly named Mingle2 – How I Built a Web 2.0 Dating Site in 66.5 Hours. Let…

  • The State of the Web – Summer 2008

    A beautifully designed collage of stuff that’s happening on the web. Right now. It’s a more graphic follow-up of last year’s State of the Web, also by Matthew Inman.

  • Peopleware and Private Offices

    A Field Guide to Developers is an article by Joel ‘on Software’ Spolsky. From reading this you can tell that Joel is a man who knows how to run a software house and how to keep staff happy. From it, I’ve also added another book to my reading list. Last year I went to a…

  • 37signals on Creating a Devoted Audience

    37signlas—creators of the book for software designers—have given us a round-up of how they built a devoted audience/client-base. From the beginning, we allotted plenty of time for side projects. Things that would get us attention, experiments with new ways of selling our services, ways to show off our design thinking, etc. Here are a few…

  • Joel Spolsky on Strategy

    Trawling through the Joel on Software archive, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading the Strategy Letter series. Building a company? You’ve got one very important decision to make, because it affects everything else you do. No matter what else you do, you absolutely must figure out which camp you’re in, and gear everything you do accordingly, or…

  • Radiohead – House of Cards

    The Official Google Blog on the making of Radiohead’s latest music video; House of Cards: In this new video, there were no cameras on set. Instead, two scanning technologies were used to capture 3D images. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produced structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne LIDAR system that…

  • Joel on Bill Gates’ Software

    Bill Gates is undeniably one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world. He is also one of the most derided due to the poor usability of many Microsoft applications. The following article and this email are going a long way in repairing Gates’ image. Joel “on Software” Spolsky on his time at Microsoft: Bill…