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Lately, I have begun to hear the question “if it’s different, will users know to use it?” more and more.   I think that the frequency of questioning coincides with the step change in technology that enables digital experiences on the web to be that much richer and interactive. Often, we are asked to create interesting ...

The spreadsheet market has been stagnant for a long, long time. Excel at its core has been fundamentally the same for the last 10 years. OpenOffice's spreadsheet tool just blindly copied it, and Google Sheets is just a dumbed down, otherwise uninteresting wannabe. DabbleDB however is a fresh look at how spreadsheets should work. I've long ...

For a lot of people, Web 2.0 is a buzzword, i.e. used to "impress people with the pretence of knowledge" [Wikipedia]. There are snake oil salesmen in every bazaar, but there really is a wow factor at the core of Web 2.0 -- Web 2.0 is what I call a transformational principle, or more simply, a transformer, in that it requires a step ...