Disqus - Latest Comments for jasper72

Re: Chill Code

Jasper Westaway — Thu, 11 May 2017 11:11:32 -0000

monday

Re: Chill Code

Jasper Westaway — Thu, 11 May 2017 10:49:29 -0000

kuuh

Re: Chill Code

Jasper Westaway — Thu, 11 May 2017 05:54:35 -0000

hello

Re: Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs

Jasper Westaway — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:38:16 -0000

It's awesome that you know better than the security & Android teams at Google. I shall pass on your wisdom to them.

Re: Mobile, ecosystems and the death of PCs

Jasper Westaway — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:22:31 -0000

I have friends in both the Google Android and security teams, and neither would agree with your claims. They describe Android as a security nightmare.

Re: Mountain biking as metaphor for product management - Jasper Westaway's Blog

Jasper Westaway — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 04:22:49 -0000

maybe that's the product!

Re: Office 365 vs. Google Apps vs. Zoho

Jasper Westaway — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:19:14 -0000

try oneDrum.com for free real real-time in MS Office

Re: Oracle Going Acquisition Bazonkers, Buys Pillar Data

Jasper Westaway — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:59:39 -0000

HP won 3Par

Re: Sync: Why is it Still Not Solved?

Jasper Westaway — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:21:41 -0000

Yup, hence the importance of operational transformation. This will allow you to walk up and down the state transition history of a piece of data; Etherpad had a great example of this, where you could drag a timeline back/forwards and see the changes unapply/apply.

Re: Sync: Why is it Still Not Solved?

Jasper Westaway — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:21:03 -0000

You've touched on one, relatively trivial, application/solution of sync: files. Most syncing problems like presence can or should not be underpinned by files. There are a great series of blogs By Cultured Code (maker of mac app Things) here:

http://culturedcode.com/thi...

File sync becomes the wrong solution once:
- you're focussed on values (rather than files)
- you don't want a master (like a database in the cloud) because there are local copies
- you want performance so you don't want to writing to disk
- there are multiple potential editors of the values in an environment that might be realtime or offline

Operational Transformation is the best solution - but complex. We use it in our real-time platform for editing MS Office docs (http://oneDrum.com) and there are a few other places where it occurs (e.g. Google Wave).

I certainly believe that the development community will start to be aware and focussed on this kind of sync, rather than file sync soon.

Re: Which startup is cleared for launch as Europe’s next €100+ million exit?

Jasper Westaway — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:05:59 -0000

Monty,

There was a 100mil+ company in the room that day but they were too modest to admit it there: SkyScanner.

Jasper

Re: What Ed Miliband should have said to the Hyde Park throng

Jasper Westaway — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:38:38 -0000

Errr... debt will continue to grow until 2015 when it peaks ie we will owe more at the end of this parliament than at the start.

The goals of reducing the year-on-year deficit is merely to put us in a position to start to address our debt which will be the largest in in the lifetime of almost anyone living.

Re: Gordon Brown 'blocked knighthood' for Steve Jobs

Jasper Westaway — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:52:11 -0000

Errr.. the CEO of Sony is a knight already! He also happens to be Welsh.

Re: I am the future of search

Jasper Westaway — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:30:00 -0000

Search is always about filtering.

When searching on behalf of another, the key is divining the searchers intent.

How do we divine intent today? The searcher enters a string of text, we filter down to a set of pages that match the string and then sort the results by some criteria.

But there are contextual techniques we already use and will only strengthen with time. For example:

1. Amazon suggests books you might like (the context is your purchase hostory)
2. Social networks suggest people you may know (the context is the people you already know).
3. GPS devices tell you to take the next left turn (because they know where you are right now!)

Now think of all of these things as infrastructure that will combine to enrich the defintion of context:

My Phone knows where I am and who my friends are and where they are. I am in Westminster and it informs me that a friend is 2 minutes walk away,

I have just visited 3 kitchenware stores. As I walk down the high street, my phone informs me there is a kitcheware store I might like to visit, 3 minutes away.

A friend is involved in an online conversation about the state of the economy, a topic I too am interested in; direct me to it please.

To some extent we already see this in action as some people move from RSS to Twitter for interesting links: Who we follow provides context.

Re: Jasper Westaway's Blog | I love the idea of creating context around data...

Jasper Westaway — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:50:31 -0000

Sometimes

Re: The economics of free

Jasper Westaway — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:19:04 -0000

10 years ago the perceived business wisdom was that mobile firms were micropayment specialists and this would become the heart of their business. But I've not heard anyone argue that for a long time.

It's a tough transition from customer facing to infrastructure. Dell was a supply chain specialist but didn't become THE supply chain specialist (That honour went to Li Fung).

Amazon is a good example of a business that converted their infrastructure into a business in its own right.

Re: Peter Clark aggregates stuff here.

Jasper Westaway — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:21:08 -0000

I'm scared; I knew the answers to all the Dune questions.

Re: Google Wave

Jasper Westaway — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:03:35 -0000

I agree, it's very interesting but it will be a struggle to create momentum around a browser that trails several others.

I've written up initial impressions here http://jasperwestaway.com/p...

Re: Computer games and effectiveness in the workplace

Jasper Westaway — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:28:46 -0000

We mounted patriot missiles on the Wallace Memorial. All your Comanche are belong to us!

Re: Modes of Conversation

Jasper Westaway — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:25:41 -0000

yup, pretty dumb of me not to mention blogs; blogs like this are like newsgroups; they start with a statement rather than a question) and then are driven by comments like yours; The definition of a healthy blog is the conversation generated by the statement.

They are broadcast and they are very formal (comments and responses in well-defined trees).

I agree that the challenge is to move between the modes and no one has solved that yet.

I was reading Fred Wilsons blog today talkign about his frustration with email (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/200.... Really want he wants is email that need actions to behave in a different way to emails that shoot the breeze.

Racepoint, oneDrums PR firm, attach a tag to the end of the subject line of their emails to me so I know what I'm meant to do, from a quick scan. It's a good and helpful idea; but it's nuts.

Re: Modes of Conversation

Jasper Westaway — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:24:21 -0000

Dan,

I agree that I need a definition of formality. I'd separately come to the same conclusion.
But I think there are hints in the article of how to do it. I talk of measurable outcomes (actions etc), and a better defined structure (question-response).

Isn't email multicast?

Jasper

Re: Modes of Conversation

Jasper Westaway — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:00:27 -0000

Zbigniew,

I would be interested in more detail. Is there a URL to your wiki?

jasper

Re: Modes of Conversation

Jasper Westaway — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:04:34 -0000

I agree that it's not technically difficult for a given UI to encompass multiple protocols. The real problem is that you're not in control of everybody else's UI and when you want to escalate a conversation you need to force everybody else down a different protocol. It's hard enough getting people to hit "Reply All" in email.

Re: No one cares about online collaboration

Jasper Westaway — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:35:40 -0000

Peter,

An interesting article, the tone of which I agree with.

Since my company builds an app that does simultaneous editing of office docs, I have strong views.

But to separate collaboration from simultaneous editing for a moment, it is is unarguable that people do want collaboration, and that it is a cornerstone of writing documents. It's just that the typical model today is email-merge management loops that are so painful that we don't typically think of it as collaboration.

Collaboration is multi faceted. Simultaneous editing is a fundamental part - it just might be a very small part. Document sharing (a la drop box) is also a fundamental part. But the bit everyone overlooks is the plane that provides transparency, coordination and control of change. Chat and commit logs are rudimentary forms of this, but mechanisms like Mylyn and twitter get much closer.

Jasper