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Re: Why you shouldn't use Twitter Bootstrap | Vibhu Norby

Vib — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:00:22 -0000

Yeah that's a nice example. I never said there weren't nice examples. I'm only advocating a more thoughtful approach to using Bootstrap.

Re: Why you shouldn't use Twitter Bootstrap | Vibhu Norby

Vib — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:59:18 -0000

Quisition is a good counter example, it's not obvious that it's done with bootstrap and it's more clear that it's thoughtfully designed.

Re: Why you shouldn't use Twitter Bootstrap | Vibhu Norby

Vib — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:51:51 -0000

Ah, yes, but design is not a "little thing that has been solved." Your design is your product, if you don't care about it, to me you do not care about your product.

Re: Why you shouldn't use Twitter Bootstrap | Vibhu Norby

Vib — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:41:08 -0000

Right, this is true. However, my intention with this blog is not come up with an innovative idea. I wanted a quick space to share thoughts. Here, it's better for the user to feel comfortable with the design than to move the ball forward.

Re: Why Everyone Is Talking About Node

Vib — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:57:27 -0000

An example of node.js deployed in a major web app is actually at myspace. Myspace threads (http://www.myspace.com/thre... uses node for real-time.

Re: Enterprise 2.0 To Become a \$4.6 Billion Industry By 2013

Vib — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:07:04 -0000

You define Enterprise 2.0 as tools based on web 2.0 concepts designed for enterprise workers, and then make the case that IT departments won't switch to them because of security fears, which is why the enterprise model is for-pay.

This is an absurd concept that is found repeated everywhere - that somehow, when you pay money, you get better security in your application. There is no relationship between paying money and security. It’s false. The real relationship is between paying and usefulness. Are you getting something that you can't get without paying?

Facebook and other popular web services have just as much on their hands to deal with when it comes to security as most any business.

The real story is that big software companies are playing the security card to undermine their new competitors.

That being said, why can't enterprise be ad-supported? Advertisers would be glad to subsidize enterprise applications for enterprise workers. There's a lot of value there that isn't being exploited.

Re: Microsoft: ROI Measurement is Broken; We'll Fix It

Vib — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:40:12 -0000

It strikes me that this model is a much better metric for measuring ROI for social sites where influence matters... like Digg and Facebook...which, OH MY GOD - have ad deals with Microsoft!(Along with a third which is rumored to be in the works with MySpace.)

Microsoft is smarter than Google thinks. While Google sees a user's search as the indicator of willingness to buy, Microsoft is looking a step before the search: Who and what brought that user to make the search in the first place?

And you better believe this is related to Yahoo! and their email service. Imagine: User receive email from friend about getting together for lunch at local restaurant. When friend leaves his email behind to "Google" the location of that local restaurant, who should really get the cut of the sale? Google, or the e-mail provider? Both. Right now it's just Google.