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More on Twitterrific

Earlier I posted David Lanham's take on the Twitterrific redesign process. Craig Hockenberry and Ged Maheux have also chimed in with their positions (Ged | Craig) and experiences with this process.

Ged is honest to a brutal yet compelling point, something anyone who has worked in software development has experienced. The dreaded scope or feature creep of a product.

Somewhere during Twitterrific’s evolution from the desktop to the iPhone, we forgot how to say no.

The iPad changed everything and gave an excuse to right the wrongs.

Constrained by the 60 day launch deadline, we set about to create a fresh version of Twitterrific that would be dead simple, include all of Twitter’s core features and be a joy to use.

Craig goes deep into his side of twitterrific, the development side. He ends his piece with this little gem

It’s very easy to get caught up in the excitement this new device has generated in the last month and a half, but the real thrill will be in a year’s time when people who’ve never used a computer will be telling you how much they love your app. And there will be a lot more than 300,000 of them…

I am excited to see the fruits of this change, I admit that I left the twitterrific fold when it UI became muddled, I look forward to coming back.

Redesigning Twitterrific

David Lanham of the Iconfactory has a very interesting look at how they approached a redesign of their Twitterrific clients.

As a first step, we decided to take a step back and re-evaluate our approach. We want to make Twitterrific quick and light with a focus on content and usability rather than feature count.  We will continue to add necessary features and updates to Twitterrific, but we’ve decided to only add features that will enhance the experience and avoid adding them because it’s easy or just because we can.

Well worth reading the full post here Source

This is What a Tweet Looks Like

I never thought that the system was simple, but I've never given it much thought either. RRW has this great explanation of that goes into each tweet.

Think a tweet is just 140 characters of text? Think again. To developers building tools on top of the Twitter platform, they know tweets contain far more information than just whatever brief, passing thought you felt the urge to share your friends via the microblogging network. A tweet is filled with metadata - information about when it was sent, by who, using what Twitter application and so on.

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Lemons

Last week I began posting obscure messages about change and opportunities for change using a lemons to lemonade theme.

One post that resonated with me is this

I'm ready to be better than some perceive. Forget my worth and I will forget you.

It sums up my feelings to a T.

I readily admit that I'm human and require others to value my contributions.

As such I am seeking just that, I am seeking a value from those around me. My life has followed a steady theme, move around often enough to keep fresh and make changes when things are not in my favor, remain as long as I have value and receive value in turn. I have no allusions about what I can and do contribute to my field. I am a very strong personality, I have a solid and comprehensive base set of skills and expertise and I am as loyal as you deserve.

I thrive in community environs, I like interaction, give and take and respect foreach individual's role in the entire process. No one person should ever be the sole source of credit for a team's accomplishments, just the same for failures.

In order to make a team work, each member from the top to the bottom needs to understand and work with the other members specific abilities. When you forget the value of an individual, you forget the value of a team.

All this said, I am seeking a recipe for the lemons I see ripening on my trees.

The Flash Battle

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Since Apple unveiled the iPad last Wednesday a large focus has been centered on the lack of Flash support.

Sides were quickly formed; Pro-Flash or Anti-Flash.

The Pro-Flash side calling it absolutely unacceptable for a modern and powerful media device to not allow Flash content.

The Anti-Flash side points out the public lack of support on the iPhone along with major reasons to despise the technology.

The Pro-Flash camp pointed out sites like Hulu and YouTube for video, and the numerous games available only through a Flash interface. Adobe even chimed in with a blog post presenting their argument for Flash.

And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web.

They have a valid (somewhat) point that the flash platform allows flexibility and a maturity that does not exist in other technologies such as HTML5.

The Flash Blog (An independent site evangelizing the Flash platform) was quick to point out how widespread the content is including pointing out very obviously the porn side of the web. They used a very effective tagline in the post that had twitter ablaze with arguments.

Millions of websites use Flash. Get used to the blue legos.

On the other side of the fence was the Anti-Flash camp, pointing out statements that Flash is the leading cause of crashes on Mac's. The fact that it is a huge CPU hog and that is just a bad format. I would generally count myself in this camp, my MacBook runs Flash content horribly. HTML5 is going to be great, especially when paired with the advances in AJAX.

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