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Dienstag, September 15th, 2009Share“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 Tweet this!
Posted in Interesting Links | No Comments »Zooming interfaces: an alternative to the Windows user experience
Montag, Mai 11th, 2009ShareJef 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 [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Interesting Links | 1 Comment »Free Google search training from Google: How to become a Super Internet Searcher
Mittwoch, Oktober 1st, 2008ShareWhile 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 [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Recommended Products | No Comments »The rise of the virtual exchange of pros and cons
Donnerstag, September 25th, 2008ShareIf 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, 2008ShareOur 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 [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Issues explained | No Comments »Usability of free software tends to suck and how Mozilla Labs wants to address it
Mittwoch, August 6th, 2008ShareMatthew Paul Thomas is listing In this follow up post to the 2002 article “Why Free Software usability tends to suck” lots of reasons “Why Free Software has poor usability”. Item number three on his list is : “Design suggestions often aren’t invited or welcomed.” Exactly this point seems to be addressed in Mozilla Labs [...]
Posted in Good Ideas, Interesting Links | No Comments »Enter text similar as you roll in Super Monkey Ball: How typing on iPhone 2.0 could be faster and much more fun!
Samstag, Juli 26th, 2008ShareWhile the virtual keyboard on Apples iPhone gets the job done it is still not really fun. Why not to be a little more creative and use iPhones special hardware to make typing faster and more fun? Movies and all details after the click. Tweet this!
Posted in Good Ideas, Interesting Links | No Comments »TED 2008: A great source of inspiration and big ideas
Montag, Juni 30th, 2008ShareThinking about ideas and creating our line of reasoning is our passion. We recommended already earlier as a great source of inspiration the annual conference TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) and their videos of some of the most fascinating thinkers of the present. To get a first idea of the ideas shown at the 2008 conference [...]
Posted in Interesting Links | No Comments »Research proves that speed matters: The faster your service is the more it will be used
Freitag, Mai 30th, 2008Share[Post edited last 5th of June 2008 to insert performance findings from Nigel Pendse's OLAP research study "The BI Survey 7"] Let us give some pragmatic advice to all “Interactive-Product” Managers out there: If you make the interaction with your device or service faster you will increase its usage and value. This is common sense [...]
Posted in Interesting Links | No Comments »Maybe Sony bought Gracenote so that Apples iPhone 2.0 will not be able to listen
Mittwoch, April 30th, 2008Share[Post edited last 1st of May 2008 to insert comment below the article about Shazam as an alternative to Gracenote] Our hypothesis: Maybe Sony bought Gracenote at the 22nd of April 2008 for $260M so that Apples iPhone 2.0 announced for June 2008 will not be able to listen to music and identify what song [...]
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