Archive for March, 2011
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
When it boils down to it, the main differentiator of a web application and a web site is that an app has much more interaction and is process-focused rather than content-driven. Users come in to achieve a goal: They provide data to the application, they use the application to enhance that data, and then they expect data to come out. They interact with components of the application and expect them to do something that brings them closer to their goal.
– Christian Heilmann in Event-Driven Web Application Design
Tags: insight, programming, web applications
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
These are the moments when disconnection shows its glorious face, when life is in full force, when we are fully connected to the world immediately around us, while disconnected from the world at large.
– Leo Babauta in his book, Focus
Tags: attention, best practices, creativity, engagement, habits, insight, interruptions, practice, quote
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Monday, March 14th, 2011
I like my resistance because it tells me exactly what I should do. Anything that the resistance warns me against is what I do.
– Seth Godin in an interview to Merlin Mann
Tags: attention, change, creativity, habits, insight, motivation, practice, quote, seth godin, ship
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
So Braintree went the opposite route and charged a premium. It started with a $200 monthly minimum, which it’s since lowered to $75. “At $200, our minimum was 4 to 8 times higher than our competitors,” says Johnson. “Applying a floor helps the right kinds of customers self-select our services. After all, we’re as interested in having the right customers as they are in having the right provider.”
– Bryan Johnson in an interview with 37signals
Tags: 37signals, insight, money, pricing, quote, value
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