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Re: Time for Questions

Niall Litchfield — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:32:23 -0000

Hi

I'm not really convinced that the technology has caught up with the user expectation yet. Or maybe just my expectation - I think that I currently have approximately 863 different ways of reading feeds I'm interested in - and I'm not entirely happy with any of them. Google reader works well enough but feels clunky, my mail client will read rss feeds, but then I nearly always have to fire up a browser to read the article anyway - my firefox live bookmarks have become a forest and so on. I signed up for a facebook account specifically to do the google reader thing you refer to, but don't like facebook (heresy!) or the applet over the share feature of google reader anyway. And so on.

I suppose my expectation is to get all the stuff I'd want to read but never find, without all the stuff I don't want in an intuitive interface and delivered to me. Preferably just by tagging my interest at Oracle and leaving it at that. That's not much to ask is it?

Re: A is for Audacity

Niall Litchfield — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 05:45:05 -0000

Hmm

I don't really recall Apple the business ever being people oriented. They were what I would call design oriented - that is they made really cool products that were/are designed to work well with people using them. They were always locked down, poorly expandable, proprietory and expensive and and... Pay a premium for good design and 'coolness'.

Good luck with the 'repair/replacement' thing anyway.

Re: Life in the Bullpen

Niall Litchfield — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:19:42 -0000

God that makes me feel old 1991 was 16 years ago - really? How did that happen?

oh on topic again, I sadly suspect that Puneet is correct in imagining that corporates look at the culture of other corporates, more successful - more rich - more innovative whatever it is, and decide that they can use seating plan changes to drive culture changes. I don't believe so, it seems to me that culture change is driven both top down - overtly - and by core groups of internal staff covertly (or at least tacitly). But it's a human activity, not a logistical activity.