bouquet

, the bouquet is just great on the camera, can only dream of owning a 5D

Seems it would, but there might be an issue with having a bouquet of two flowers. Still, I like your answer better...

A bouquet of a dozen roses for $10? They'll buy that. But a regular price bouquet at $40?

It's one of those things where every key aspect has been thought through and polished so thoroughly that I want to send somebody a bouquet.

I also found it slightly austere in the bouquet, yet volatile in texture, almost reminiscent of a late harvest.

I didn't see the 'slates fighting' in Office, I saw them as a bouquet, given that Office is made of several items that work together.

I think the notion of the bouquet is quite apt; the huge number of disparate google products are not something that can be made social with a simple update. In order to be so, they have to be completely re-imagined.

> In this context, an undervalued IPO every once in a while is more like a perk to a valued customer -- it's the equivalent of the bouquet of flowers or bottle of wine a company might send to a regular Joe. Yes, but that perk is paid for by LinkedIn.

Look at a wedding bouquet, or a corporate event, or a logo. The people who make these things are constantly making choices informed by their education, experience and perception, but those choices aren't based on data that's easily quantified.

>While the above bouquet of random monikers may excite the cutting-edge startup developer, try pitching such an amalgamation to management in an enterprise environment. What "management" makes these kind of tech decisions?

> I apologise for them and I am ready to apologise again in person with a big bouquet of flowers. Apologizing for sexual harassment in-person with what's generally considered a romantic gesture?

In this context, an undervalued IPO every once in a while is more like a perk to a valued customer -- it's the equivalent of the bouquet of flowers or bottle of wine a company might send to a regular Joe.

While the above bouquet of random monikers may excite the cutting-edge startup developer, try pitching such an amalgamation to management in an enterprise environment. Inevitably, this week's fashionable web technologies will be supplanted by next week's fads.

You're not going to notice the brushed aluminum bump map when it's combined with the libraries 'scratched specular map' and a few other ingredients - a cook isn't cheating when he uses bouquet garni or a garam masala from the catering supplier.

Instead, they're arranged more like a bouquet of unique flowers that each have their own special features that make them easily recognizable and memorable, while telling you something about themselves. Designing user interfaces this way is a artistic balancing act, highly dependent on the set of commands, and requiring a lot of iteration, testing and measurement, as well as willingness to explore and experiment with many different alternatives.

That doesn't preclude people who enjoy hanging out with other carpenters, filesharers, dancers, or florists from believing in and participating in a community around their individual passions, even if that doesn't attract anyone who's ever put up a piece of sheetrock or put together a bouquet. I don't dispute for a minute the notion that those communities in turn will have elements of tribalism, in-groups, customs and common beliefs that perhaps, in turn, affect who ends up participating in it.

It would also help if Google's bouquet were a bit more fragrant. In particular, I find Google+'s non-write access api to be my major stumbling block to using it, socially that is. I want to push twitter/fb to it. I want openness and I think it would help their adoption. That would be a bouquet I'd want to smell and I know many others as well.