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July 2003 Archives
Iconoclastic Usability ROI discussion
Peter Merholz debunks a recent NN Group report on Usability ROI read full post
The problem with Social Networking sites....
Social networking sites are not interoperable - doh read full post
Attention!
Ross Mayfield looking at Thomas Davenport's Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business idas read full post
FOAF as reputation aid for better search?
Post about using FOAF and reputation information to improve search results. read full post
The Karass and the Granfalloon
How to use SNA to know the difference between your Karass and your Granfalloons. read full post
new Cabinet Office Government Web site guidelines
new government web site guidelines read full post
Innovation in interaction design
Fabio, IVREA, Natasha and Muslim Heritage.... read full post
Second Life vs Nada
Account of the highly immersive Second Life game in Wired read full post
More SNA tools
Some Social Network Analysis tools read full post
Too few constraints can breed paralysis
Matt Jones links to a Jeef Veen interview: "We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane." read full post
Will Davies gets carried away about techno-Darwinism
Will Davies of iWire gets carried away with his opposition to techno-Darwinism read full post
Social Software and the future of events
Ross Mayfield discusses the future shape of trade events and the impact of real-time blogging, Wikis, in-room chat, etc. read full post
Don Norman on a recent example of techno-idiocy
Matt Jones links to Don Norman, who is against HumanML. read full post
E-government targets debate
e-Government: should we continue with targets; if so, what sort of targets should be used and what services should be tackled? read full post
We are hiring
Headshift seek talented developer to provide furniture rationale read full post
Interface scalability in Content Management Systems
how well do CMS interfaces perform as the content scales up to become quite large? read full post
Trust
An article about trust resulting from our recent dinner debate on the subject read full post
Forced to be free
Report on iSociety event marking the launch of the SmartGov report on 16 July 2003. read full post
Evoking a social space through music and movement
DJ Spooky remixes sound and visual movement to evoke an imaginary social space created by African musician Fela Kuti. read full post
Real-life gets 9.6/10 on gamespot
Review of an awesome massively multiplayer role-playing game. Anyone have a cheat sheet? read full post
DUX 2003 case studies online
case studies are now online from this year's Design for User Experience Conference read full post
Danish e-government enterprise architecture
Architecting eGovernment - Danish White Paper on Enterprise Architecture now available in English read full post
Weblogs and politics debate
Whether weblogs and social software can be used politically, and if so, how and to what end read full post
Collaborative virtual workspaces for programmers
Microsoft and Sun have both launched collaborative virtual workspaces for developers. read full post
RDFWeb and Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
Dan Brickley describes FOAF and how to extend it within an RDF context read full post
Adaptive Path site re-design: "value as the key message"
Adapative Path's new site is awesome in its simplicity and supports their belief in value as the key message of the activity formely known as design. read full post
Yoz: MMS to MT via email and perl script
perl script that supports moblogging on Movable Type read full post
Prusak: idea practitioners
interview about ideas with Larry Prusak about idea practitioners, organizational fads, and where to look for new ideas read full post
Anne Galloway's paper on ubiquitous computing
An inspiring read about the future of ubiquitous computing and the urban environment read full post
Bridging the Gap That Separates Technologies and New Markets
Knowledge@Wharton describes the failure of technologists to understand markets and how this means we miss opportunities for bridging requirements and applications in different fields read full post
NYT on blogs in the workplace
NYT piece on workplace blogging read full post
AOL: you've got blog
AOL Journal will give all AOL users LiveJournal-type blogging later this year read full post
In favour of personae and scenarios
Fabio Sergio on 'tools for tales' to support the design process read full post
Usability or User Experience?
Usability or user experience design - you decide... read full post
Taking the pain out of ontology building
Using an XSLT stylesheet to create HTML representations of RDF schema read full post
The architecture of the Web
Dr John Gotze links to the latest W3C Working Draft Architecture of the World Wide Web read full post
Jakobean junglism
IA/ summarises Jakob Nielson oversimplifying Stuart Card and Peter Pirolli's information foraging ideas. read full post
(un)sociable software standards
Clay Shirky on the RSS/Echo dogfight read full post
Web content accessibility guidelines
W3C content accessibility guidelines 2.0 read full post
