Comments on: Designing the Future: One Tiny App at a Time http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 27 months » The Virtues of Small Software http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176938 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:23:04 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176938 [...] (and a lot of others I’ve surely overlooked) are at the forefront of what Samuel Dean called a “knock down, drag ‘em out renaissance…involving guerrilla apps, widgets, and many other [...]

]]> By: rob http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176937 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:09:02 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176937 Have you stopped to ponder the flipside of your statement “This, without a doubt, is a travesty” – how about the thought that maybe, just maybe, those are all the applications that they need?

Or, there is another option, that by using the 5 “large” applications, they get massive time and efficiency scaling over potentially using 10,20, or 30 “tiny apps” to do the same thing.

I don’t think that you or the M$ team are giving people enough credit – we’re inherently lazy and will naturally optimize our time by making life as easy as possible. If one of these “tiny apps” will make my life faster/easier/any other adjective – then I’ll use it. If it doesn’t – then let the app meet up with the Amiga in the dustbin of “things that were supposed to be better/faster/easier but never really lived up to the promise for a variety of reasons”.

]]> By: doris cheng http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176936 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:50:13 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176936 Being with a guerrilla-sized company that dedicated to build baby applications from web to mobile, your article speaks our mind. Our mobile service lets cell phone users do click-to-call, text-message shoutouts up to 8 recipients, and quick lists with fast searches and lookups, all driven by made-for-mobile-sync online address book and calendar widgets. While building various baby apps for everyday use, our next milestone will let users access any app from one single icon on their cell phones.

]]> By: vruz http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176935 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:20:37 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176935 Great article, enjoyable and thought provoking.

That being said, I can’t help wondering whether the actual new killer tiny apps will be -by your own definition- well under your radar.

If that were the case, we’re facing the paradox of having a total accurate perception of where the industry is going, yet failing to identify the actual companies and products that will strive in it.

]]> By: Chris http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176934 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:15:41 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176934 I guess we’re in the middle – our app allows creation of eBay listings with up to 6 photos from a mobile.
It isn’t a trivial app and we self funded the development, the PR the whole thing before getting other investors involved. I guess small is beautiful but the need for apps that do real work, especially on the coming ‘open garden’ of cell access (yes I am a believer) is there.

]]> By: globalizing http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176933 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:50:11 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176933 This surge in software development is reminiscent of the surge in software development on the arrival of the ‘personal’ computer. Apple, Commodore, etc. produced a great surge of programming by individuals and small companies. After 20 years the desktop has boiled down to a few giants. Now the web produces a surge. Perhaps in another 20 years it will be down to a few giants. I am sure the giants would like that.

We should enjoy this surge in near-amateur enthusiasm while it lasts.

]]> By: googletoolbar - by gaby de wilde http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176932 Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:00:28 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176932 Yes, it will boil down to lots of small things. I had made this unofficial googletoolbar for Opera some time ago, it’s quite popular it appears. Opera makes a great widget platform.

People are some what confused about the browser but what I like most about it is that it starts up in a blink of an eye exactly where you left off the last time.

FireFox takes an hour to load 100 tabs (if it even works) so I always end up with much smaller sessions using ff. Saving the tabs as 100 bookmarks isn’t exactly useful if I cant open all of them at the same time. It’s like the browser has amnesia. lol It does great for the pages coded specially for the fox.

Anyway, great article. I will now have to visit the links in it. ;-)

]]> By: Minimology · Digital Playground of Chris Garrett http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176931 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:36:53 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176931 [...] The Future of Software [...]

]]> By: GigaOM Tiny Apps, Green Data Centers and Kid Management « http://gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176930 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:32:52 +0000 http://future.gigaom.com/2007/08/03/designing-the-future-one-tiny-app-at-a-time/#comment-176930 [...] Written by Om Malik Friday, August 3, 2007 at 10:32 AM PT | No comments In an ironic twist in the always topsy-turvy tale of software evolution, The Next Big Thing appears to be a series of many small things. Read more » [...]

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