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alperon IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

That would force me to spend time to manually drag everything into folders with the same cataloguing problem you face in every other domain after which I would not really be able to locate anything else.

True, the fact that I have this many apps is a professional deformation, but still the app life cycle from installing/updating, to managing/organizing, to finding and launching one is severely broken from its mental model on.

alperon IOS 6: Higher Hanging Fruit

I am amazed at how every single one idea in there is either stupid from the onset or the concept given is executed in an absolutely braindead way.

Just one: direct file access. The best thing Apple did for the learning curve of computing is destroy the concept of files for the casual user. The restrictions are put on the designer who has to figure out a creative way to enable task fulfillment within those restrictions. That is not a file picker (with Folders no less).

The most important enhancement is not even on the list: an iPad with several hundred apps is totally unwieldable. That should be fixed.

alperon Piracy - You can't have your cake and eat it

Just this is enough justification: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EbhbPbkypPY/S4lILqwD3GI/AAAAAAAABs...

alperon Lanyrd (YC W11) launches session planner / coverage tracker for SXSW Interactive

Damn, I wish I was going this year when the program is finally in a format I can make sense of!

alperon TipJoy’s New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors

We have the default set at 10% (but people can slide it back to 0 if they want). Right now we're seeing a tip back percentage of 4.3 percent.

alperon TipJoy’s New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors

One of the things which definitely improve online tipping is making it clear what it will be used for. Making it easier and more visible also helps.

This leads to the question if online tipping is a luxury good. Tipping in restaurants for instance is so ingrained both socially and because the staff need the money that tips may be squeezed in an economic downturn (see http://waiterrant.net/?p=436), but they will hold up. For online content, that remains to be seen, but we can definitely try.

alperon TipJoy’s New API Lets Web Apps Share the Love (and Cash) With Their Contributors

At Tipit.to we haven't sent out a single payup reminder yet and we're seeing a percentage of more than 50% (more than 75% if you exclude unverified accounts).

Read more about how we are doing things differently in my comment on the post: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/27/tipjoys-new-api-lets-we...