MephoBox: a collection of user interface and design elements.
(via @swissmiss and @smashingmag)
Archive for March 30th, 2010
The future. Is it really here?
The future of our industry now looks totally different than the past. It looks like a sheet of paper, and it’s called the It’s not about typing or clicking; it’s about touching. It’s not about text, or even animation, it’s about video. It’s not about a local disk, or even a desktop, it’s about the cloud. It’s not about pulling information; it’s about push. It’s not about repurposing old software, it’s about writing everything from scratch (because you want to take advantage of the awesome potential of the new computers and the new cloud—and because you have to reach this pinnacle). Finally, the industry is fun again.
salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff – via Tech Crunch
Twitter :: a force for good?
Be a force for good.
“That’s Twitter’s new foundational principle — and it’s interesting because it takes Google’s foundational principle and does it one better. Will Twitter live up to it? Perhaps. What’s important about it is how it focuses Twitter, as we discussed, on creating real, meaningful, sustainable value. That’s something 95% of organizations can’t do — but increasingly, exactly what people, communities, and society demand.”
Umair Haque, talking about his interview with Twitter’s Evan Williams, via Harvard Business Review.
Image credit: Fail Whale by Yiying Lu
