I came across Almost Perfect via Hacker News, a candid first-hand account of the rise and fall of WordPerfect.
It is so interesting to see how WordPerfect was blind its impending death. I am not singling out WordPerfect here, rather as a theme how corporations are all blind to their eventual death. The singular theme [...]

[Note: I've reposted this (with minor edits) as my original post got accidentally deleted. Thanks to Google cache]
Why is it? Why is it that Java applets -despite having the first mover advantage – achieved little traction. While Flash – a tool which targets graphic designers originally – continue to gain mindshare, and is now a [...]

In his ISOCO4 talk, Adam Bosworth sought to explain the effectiveness of HTML and spreadsheets on the malleability of the medium, and how forgiving the medium is.
In Scribbling in the Margins, Jon Udell’s thesis is that extensibility was the mark of enduring design. Jon likened the extension of DNS records for use in SPF [...]