I’ll blog about this one at some point, but the one I wanted to mention here is this one, which is a good read for people who want to build better tools to let normal people make computers “do stuff”.
A notable quote:

For example, no one still uses textual markup for word processing (except, notably, Computer [...]

Research phase at work. Here are some of the things I’m looking at:

As mentioned before, Flapjax. (I finally got drag and drop to work!),

Subtext, from Jonathan Edwards, whom I remember from a cool presentation at OOPSLA a few years back IIRC,

Tangible programming

Live programming

Links “tierless” programming system

Logical spreadsheets out of Stanford

The above also point back [...]