We have seen quite a few experiments geared towards using notifications and the notification centre as the main interface. Yo , Wut , Text are probably just the most eloquent examples of “notification only” services. Lightweight applications that allow you to compose or address a message on one end and just display a notification on the recipient’s device. I’ve always been a big fan of minimal…
…design refers to the will to interpret the meaning of human life and existence through the process of making things. – Kenya Hara Design is something more and more people like to use to define something that looks pleasing to the eye. However design is much, much broader than that. Every single thing we, as humans, create is designed. Think about your coffee mug, your glass, the desk you might be…
Something that was brewing for a while was finally announced yesterday - the Slovene startup ecosystem finally got a long awaited early stage fund . Boštjan , Andraž , Jugoslav , Peter worked tirelessly for over a year and have overcome a ton of bureaucratic overhead to make this happen. I’m particularly excited by the fact that the investors in the fund are a mix of local entrepreneurs with…
Whatsapp is now part of Facebook . The deal is – by a large margin – the largest-ever acquisition of an internet company . The second largest deal is Skype - Microsoft at half the price Facebook paid. Both are communications products. Both enable people to fulfil a fundamental human need - to communicate with friends, family and other human beings. Both engage people in conversations and re-engage…
The image is the glass and the glass is the product. After reading Ben Evan’s post “The Spread of Glass,” some of the thoughts I had when I first saw the original iPhone came to mind. The devices we used to own were hardwired for specific purposes. Each had hardware controls: cameras had fixed buttons, TV remotes had fixed buttons, and a typewriter with an English querty keyboard could not…
Today, Kevin Rose published an conceptual idea for a new blogging tool, Tiny . Without going into judging if the world needs another blogging tool/platform or not, I find the idea of adding ambiance to the publishing medium extremely interesting. I think incorporating ambience into communications product would add another layer of information that is conveyed to the other party in a conversation.…
It has been a long year in which I didn’t really publish much. After leaving vox.io at the end of January and taking some time off to reflect, I focused on building Layer with an amazing team . While I have been writing a lot for myself and the Layer team, I didn’t really get the chance to collect, refine and share my thoughts with the rest of you. Starting today I’m going to publish more thoughts…