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Tom Whitwell knows a lot about headlines, since he’s Assistant Editor, online, for The Times. This are notes from his talk at Social Media Camp ’08. If you’re using Gmail, you should start thinking about SEO-ing your subjects, so you’ll actually find something in 10-years time. For first hundred years of newspapers, they were really […]
People often tell me that I probably got the best job in the world. Lots of traveling, going to all the cool places and as many conferences as I can get myself into without being too sleep deprived. Well, they’re mostly right. It’s a great gig, with a few of little problems, mostly anxiety the […]
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Image via Wikipedia Going to conferences is exciting activity, where you get to spend a few days in a completely different environment, around peers listening to exciting people who you most often look up to. But most of trade-show conferences today are not organized like academic conferences where you get to take home a full […]
Image by Cristiano Betta via Flickr Here’s a short list of conferences that are upcoming this fall in Europe, and can present a good excuse for my American friends, to travel abroad. September 2008 Mozilla add-ons workshop, 20th September, Paris, France – Something for Firefox extension developers between us October 2008 Widget Web Expo, 6-7 […]
Image via Wikipedia  Jane McGonigal lives at http://www.avantgame.com/ and blogs at http://avantgame.blogspot.com/  We should start making “real worldâ€, more like a game. The term she coined for this is “Reality UX† 1997 Movie – The Game, staring Michael Douglas  Consumer Recreation Service, their moto is “Make your life … funâ€. A […]
Image via Wikipedia  Audrey Chen lives behind the http://www.thedailyshow.com/  The Story of The Daily Show website Spring 2007 Writers strike rumors, Viacom started suing YouTube uploaders, etc. Old clips were in an archive that was designed as a stand-alone application, even though it was a web page.  The scale of The Daily Show […]
Image by sachman75 via Flickr  Scott Griffith is CEO of ZipCar – http://www.zipcar.com  They record videos since it’s easier to explain to new users.  Confluences of trends that they have to think about when designing a service  Gas prices Education members about Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)  Urban Living More […]
Somehow I can’t make a really good notes from Neo-futurists presentation, so here’s one of the short videos from them, which is still really enjoyable:
Image via Wikipedia  Jensen Harris lives at http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/  The story of the Office  Conventional wisdom said that the Office is good enough. Asking real people told different story, which was that the user interface was failing users.  Symptoms they noticed: They added new features, but hardly anyone found them Office was […]
Image by MaggieMason via Flickr Leah Buley lives at http://ugleah.tumblr.com/ Who is team of one? Often people assume it’s someone in a small organizations, or just starting their careers. But she’s actually thinking of a state of mind, rather than the situation. Working with interesting constraints, that created opportunities and makes our work [of UX […]