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Montag, September 21st, 2009The Apple iTunes Genius feature can create personalized play-lists for your iTunes library and provide you with recommendations regarding media and other products that you maybe would like to buy.
How does Apples itunes Genius functionality work?
Apple is making no secret out of what Genius does, you can find it all here:
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/us/terms.html
We would also strongly suggest [...]
Why is there no natively built-in appstore for desktop applications in Microsoft Windows and Apples OSX?
Samstag, März 14th, 2009Apples iTunes application store for iphone and ipod touch has demonstrated the value that a simple and integrated access/purchase/install/use/upgrade/uninstall life-cycle solution for applications can bring to a platform. Obviously Microsoft (Google has the Android Market, Nokia will launch Ovi Store) is now also introducing one for its own mobile platform.
The better user experience of [...]
It is easy to start an online presentation on Google Docs, but do you know how stop it?
Samstag, Dezember 13th, 2008Paul Thurrott recently published two interesting articles about user interfaces and the difference between a simple UI and a UI that is easy to use:
“Google’s Web applications are simple—they are—and a certain audience out there really appreciates that.”
http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2008/11/24/a-great-google-article-the-difference-between-easy-and-simple-and-why-this-is-a-problem-for-windows-7.aspx
“Today, we take it for granted, and while the details may change, the desktop UIs used by systems [...]
34 billion German Internet users can teach you something about the web
Donnerstag, Oktober 23rd, 2008Update 25.10.2008: See updates in blue text in the body of the post below
A research institute confused million with billion in a news release published last month. Someone called them and they fixed the one-letter error immediately. Case closed, what could be learned out of this? What is the importance of million vs. billion in [...]
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 »How the Aberdeen Group has proven that the Quality of the End-User Experience needs improvement
Mittwoch, September 3rd, 2008Sometimes you turn your head around and ask yourself if you are on candid camera. Today this mail titled “Improve the Quality of the End-User Experience” from the Aberdeen Group created such a moment for us:
User experience is one of the core interests of the Line-Of-Reasoning team so we tried to access our “COMPLIMENTARY COPY”. [...]
Posted in 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 [...]
Where to buy and how to play also on Apple OSX the fantastic shoot them up Arcade game ROM "Rayforce"
Sonntag, März 30th, 2008We as the team behind our “line-of-reasoning” are passionate about highlighting challenges and opportunities in everybody’s life in the information age. Currently we are researching a specific sub-niche of the software market for games. We will share with you in the following article some interesting parallels of the digital marketplaces for Arcade / Retro games [...]
Posted in Issues explained, Recommended Products | 4 Comments »Example of how Data Quality issues can ripple through a service and reduce the quality of the user experience: the Amazon case revisited
Sonntag, Januar 20th, 2008In a previous post we discussed Data Quality issues in Amazons product catalog. We showed the details of how those Data Quality issues can make it for Consumers difficult to find the products that they are interested in. As a consequence of the low Data Quality it is “easy” to pay on Amazon for exactly [...]
Posted in Issues explained | No Comments »Examples of News that you would miss using only RSS and or Google Reader
Montag, Dezember 31st, 2007Google Reader is a highly recommended tool to browse News feeds. But not every bit of information and also not every News on the Web is available as an RSS feed. Now you could argue that in this case you just do not care about those pieces of information because there is anyhow too much [...]
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