Monthly Archive for May, 2001
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May 31, 2001 in
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Some good ideas on designing mobile applications. “Good application design requires thought about intent, context, and technology. Intent is what the user wants to do with an application; context is the user’s environment and how he or she got there; and technology is how the application is delivered” 1:41:23 PM |
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Great article summarising the Kaycee case: “It was like a story being reported by locusts,” Mr. Cadenhead said of the diligence of the Scooby Doos. “They swept in and just pulled facts out of the air.” 1:35:50 PM |
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Published on
May 30, 2001 in
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Interesting link on developing FAQs using binary trees. 1:12:20 PM |
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Dead right ‘Mouse-trapping’ has to be a bad idea. The browser is bad enough – breaking the back button just can’t be sensible. 11:47:02 AM |
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Weak but interesting guide to a way of widening the focus of usability studies. I liked the experience engine. 11:44:20 AM |
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I like the idea of a traffic light changer. Can you imagine how grim life would be if we all had one! Forget collaboration, everyone would defect in a gridlock Prisoners’ Dilemma. 11:39:45 AM |
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Interesting bet on the future for Microsoft Office and other applications. Essentially, the subscription model will roll in and owning software will roll out. Nuff said. 11:07:03 AM |
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Good site on IA. 11:02:43 AM |
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Published on
May 29, 2001 in
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Good sense of humour in this article about how interface design is important [lies, damn lies: Word needs 30% more key presses and 100% more mouse movements than an “optimal” word processor. 6:25:53 PM |
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I agree – the keyboard isn’t dead yet. 6:21:46 PM |
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Wireless LAN roaming could be a killer app. It might mess up 3G (again), though. 1:34:32 PM |
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Fascinating experiment in online KM: I.B.M. Meets With 52,600, Virtually. A project called WorldJam tried to get some good ideas from 1 in 6 of IBM’s employees. That’s a lot of people. 1:22:16 PM |
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Super funky new Compaq designs. We’ll prototypes, anyhow. 1:16:52 PM |
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Published on
May 24, 2001 in
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I hope people sort this out soon! The CDDB was one of the first great ideas of the internet. 5:17:12 PM |
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While this is an interesting case of faking identity , it doesn’t get to the root of the problem. People have always done this (fake degrees, awards, etc) and some get away with it, some don’t. If anything the story says that the dotcom bubble was so ridiculous, people didn’t even bother checking that someone could do a job before employing them. 5:03:34 PM |
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Good little piece from Amy Wohl on software pricing. Which made me think: where is the charging component / service in Hailstorm and other related ventures? Without this, the magic “pay 20cents to get a stock quote in your Word doc” can’t work. 2:00:34 PM |
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Purple is the colour to be! Our new brand isn’t so new after all… 11:35:24 AM |
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Published on
May 23, 2001 in
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So The White House vandal scandal wasn’t. Basically the incoming administration made it all up and the press corps loved it. How many other “press events” actually turn out to be nothing because no-one goes back to check on them? 12:16:45 PM |
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Clay Shirky on the demise of centralised network security. Just as computer engineers laughed at the BBC micro in the 1970s because “computing was too difficult”, so network technicians are laughing at current users. Once we’ve drilled SOAP / XML-RPC through port 80, what can a security administrator do? 12:06:26 PM |
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May 22, 2001 in
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May 21, 2001 in
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It’s the whole trail idea again:Majestic Invades Your World. Interactive game / mystery which plays you as much as the other way around. 12:30:51 PM |
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The Mercury’s title sums it up: Professor’s battle exposes abysmal copyright law. The DMCA is going to disappear, I hope, but how on earth did it get through? Just shows how powerful the entertainment industry is. Maybe Bush won’t be as close to Hollywood as Clinton was? 11:46:18 AM |
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Would you wear a watch like this? Every movement you make and sound you make recorded for someone else’s reward? I can see some really nasty privacy issues here: imagine linking the “what song am I listening to” part to the “what songs do I own” part… 11:43:09 AM |
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Published on
May 17, 2001 in
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I suppose I should have expected online gaming cheats to be pretty teched up, but this is really over-the-top. Aim bots, fake video drivers, etc, etc. 1:06:16 PM |
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Interesting summary of US copyright law as it applies to P2P filesharing, more specifically Napster. 9:40:49 AM |
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Published on
May 16, 2001 in
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Astonishing if true: you can mimic quantum interference type experiments using light. This makes everything that much easier to do, and means, e.g. that superfast database searching could be much nearer than we thought. 4:49:05 PM |
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Great article on an example of the equally great fishbowl process. 3:20:12 PM |
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Published on
May 15, 2001 in
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Great article about the use of blogs in storytelling for KM in businesses. 1:18:41 PM |
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