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- It's the small touches that won me over.October 10
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It’s the small touches that won me over. Well designed, a bit of attitude, and useful.
—App store reviewer Jragon on Sketches. Should good software have ‘a bit of attitude’?
- It's not its.October 10
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It's not its.
A single serving site for those wondering. (Now where’s “There not their”?)
- Product blog update: Twitter inside Campfire, home organization with Backpack, Diabetes Hands Foundation/Basecamp case study, etc.October 10
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Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:
Campfire
See your team’s Twitter posts inside Campfire
“Last week, Des suggested that it would be great if we could see things that team members were posting on Twitter from inside Campfire…A small script now runs every minute and pulls in the feed and posts new updates to Campfire. Now we can keep a track of the conversations we’re having outside Campfire, inside Campfire. I’ve published the source code to the script on GitHub if you’d like to play with it yourself.”
Backpack
Home organization expert on Backpack: “It’s like magic! My respite of order in a chaotic world.”
“I log in to Backpack from home on Sunday and note on the Writeboard what I plan to cook for those evenings. I also list what ingredients we’ll need to buy at the Farmer’s Market or grocery store. I can even include a link to the recipe, if applicable. He can do the same for his cooking days. We can also make note of who will go to the grocery store, and whose turn it is to clean up the kitchen each night. The end result is a comprehensive meal plan for the whole w - Hulu figures out how to bring TV onlineOctober 10
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Man, has Hulu nailed online TV viewing or what? First off, they have a huge library of content that people actually want (e.g. SNL, Family Guy, Daily Show, Colbert, Kitchen Nightmares, etc.). And then they really execute on having a usable, effective UI.
You do have to watch ads with Hulu. But just one at a time. The timeline lets you fast forward to anywhere in the show and also displays where the commercial breaks are located. That means you can go to any part of the show you want as long as you watch one ad first.
A timer lets you know exactly how long you’ve got to go when ads are displayed. Watching the single ads Hulu shows takes the same amount of time as fast forwarding through a whole normal commercial break on DVR. Result: You actually wind up watching more ads on Hulu than you do on a DVR but it takes the same amount of time.And there’s more typical UI stuff you expect from a video site but it’s all executed nicely…
Sort through episodes by date, popularity, etc. - In the world of ideas, to name somethingOctober 10
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In the world of ideas, to name something is to own it. If you can name an issue, you can own the issue.