Simplicity News & Articles

The most important decisions in web management are what you don't do, what you take away from your website rather than put up on it.

In a complex world, innovation shifts from creating and adding to simplifying and removing.

The organization is a tribe and the customer is a stranger. That's why it's so hard to be customer-centric.

"I believe Content Circles has significant market and technology advantages that dramatically set it apart from competitors,” said Derek Blazensky after joining the company's board of directors last month.  

The expansion of  their team is only one way in which Content Circles (news, site) plans to keep their server-free collaboration appeal in 2010. We checked in with Malcolm Hobbs of the marketing team and this is what he had to say:

Internet Simplicity (site), a Silicon Valley-based company who launched a visual web editor last year has just moved into the world of web content management systems with the launch of a suite offering, you guessed it, simplicity of use and ways to solve common content management problems.

The company describes the entire solution -- web editor and CMS -- as a user-friendly platform requiring no technical skills and comes in two versions: TypeRoom Lite and TypeRoom Professional.
 

A new Embedded Content Tool (ECT) that will allow users with little or no website-building abilities to create sophisticated web pages in real-time has just come onto the market.

Developed by Platformic, an end-to-end web development and SaaS web content management systems company, this new ECT is targeted at non-web-based media companies that need to better enable their content managers and more simply bring disparate media assets into their web content.

Simplicity. It has a magic and a fragility all its own. Done wrong, it fails for not being enough, or for still being too much. Done right, we have explosive 140 char success stories like Twitter.

In what could either be a stroke of simple genius or just an attempt to strike whilst the economy quivers, Content Circles has stepped up to the plate with a super low cost (US$ 100 per year), server-free document collaboration and content management tool.

Perhaps they too see the magic. Let's have a look.

At Le Web 3 conference in Paris this morning, we were tuned into Evan Williams, the founder of Twitter. The topic of his mini keynote was Persistent Communication, but he really didn’t say much about that actually. And I must say I wasn’t too disappointed — I happen to think we’re all twittering a bit too much these days, and I don’t much care what you had for breakfast, nor if you’re stuck in traffic on 101 Northbound. Sorry!

What was interesting about Evan’s talk was his focus on simplicity, a concept increasingly noodled upon these days, and one close to our hearts.