i.never.nu is written by Patrick Tanguay, a freelance web developer and consultant based in Montréal who also blogs pictures and design at Céboça, co-founded the coworking space Station C and is a founding trustee of The Awesome Foundation Montreal.
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We must wean ourselves off the obsession with the competition. If we’re constantly trying to one-up them—or even just stay up with them—how does this really serve the users? How does it help the users kick ass if we’re so focused making sure our feature lists kick ass? But it’s hard to do.—Ignore the competition
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aj – July 29th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
an excellent point that needs to be brought up periodically before everyone involved in the decision-making process (web, software or even in running a regular business—how many times has, say, a restaurant thought they were ‘upgrading’ and then lost their clientele?)
side note: the graph reminded me of this post by Matt Inman.
Patrick – July 30th, 2006 at 6:25 am
Ahah! Excellent link :).