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Mittwoch, Februar 3rd, 2010Guy Kawasaki (who worked in the past for Apple as evangelist) explains in Seth Godin´s free ebook “What matters now” that you:
Never describe your cause by using bull shiitake terms like “revolutionary” and “paradigm shifting.” Instead, explain how it helps a person.
Apple just launched this new product everybody was so excited about before it was [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Thematic Web Archives | No Comments »Explanations for Twitter trending topics getting a trend
Mittwoch, November 25th, 2009This is part 3 of our Twitter related mini-tutorial (part1, part2).
Twitter.com is providing a short list of currently popular keywords from within the most current stream of tweets.
This list is called “Trending Topics”.
It provides a convenient way to connect to what is currently happening on that global message bus called Twitter:
Recently some explanations started to show [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Recommended Products, Thematic Web Archives | 1 Comment »Microsoft wants less Windows
Montag, November 23rd, 2009Microsoft is continuing to invest into user interfaces that will help users to open less windows.
Quadrant and Pivot are the code names of two new Microsoft applications that make use of a zooming interface to let users change from overview to detailed views in a seamless way.
1) Microsoft “Quadrant”
“Microsoft code name -Quadrant- is a graphical [...]
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts quote great visualization on youtube
Donnerstag, September 24th, 2009“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” . The information age was given recently a new visual metaphor for this quote from Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC).
This video was generated by combining thousands of photos (the parts) to generate this animated 3D view (the sum) of San Marco Square [...]
Search engine trend: remove typing as the barrier to entry
Dienstag, September 15th, 2009Google:
Search with voice recognition: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-mobile-app/
Google Fast Flip: GoogleBlog and here http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/
Microsoft:
Bing Visual Search: BingBlog: Visual Search – Why type when you can see it? Example: VisualSearch (needs Silverlight installed)
Posted in Interesting Links | 1 Comment »About ownership of data on Facebook
Dienstag, September 15th, 2009“The more dependent we allow ourselves to become to something like Facebook — and Facebook does everything in its power to make you more dependent — the more Facebook can and does abuse us,” Harmsen explained by indignant e-mail. “It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is Facebook’s profile about you.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html
Zooming interfaces: an alternative to the Windows user experience
Montag, Mai 11th, 2009Jef Raskin, the human interface expert who started the Macintosh project at Apple in the late 70´s, was not happy about how most of us today work with their computers:
“In present systems, work gets done in applications (which are sets of commands that apply to certain kinds of objects). Tasks are not accomplished at the [...]
Free Google search training from Google: How to become a Super Internet Searcher
Mittwoch, Oktober 1st, 2008While it is easy enough just to type some keywords into Google`s famous simple search UI this does not necessarily mean that you will find always quickly the most valuable and reliable information that is available out there.
Daniel Russell working at Google for “Google Search Quality & User Happiness” is making us happy with his [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Recommended Products | No Comments »The rise of the virtual exchange of pros and cons
Donnerstag, September 25th, 2008If someone is making a “statement” (positive or negative) about a specific thing this contextual relationship between the “thing”, the “statement” and if it is “pros” or “cons” can be captured and saved. This information can then be later easily used to combine “statements” about specific “things” and create by this dynamically a “virtual exchange [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Issues explained | No Comments »The essence of information based human creativity (and how Robert Scoble´s Techmeme game is related to John Boyd´s military strategy)
Sonntag, August 31st, 2008Our understanding of the core aspect of information based human creativity that can be for example sometimes (and not often enough) found in
blogging,
mails,
reports/presentations and
innovative software products and services
is expressed in this slightly modified quote of Colonel John Boyd:
Live the instinctive see-saw of analysis and synthesis across a variety of domains, or across competing/independent channels of [...]
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