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Is Social Media ready for Open Social?
I think, based on this theory, and my reading of the market, that Social Media is not good enough yet, and is therefore too premature to benefit from open standards. Host applications (like FaceBook and Pownce and others) need to keep their systems (called “Containers” in the field) highly optimized so all these busy developers out in the wild can continue writing add-ons that are tightly coupled to their specific set of capabilities.
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Forrester Research: Customer Advocacy 2007
Echoing what I’ve been preaching for years now around my day-job, firms that are seen as customer advocates will reap rewards in measurable increased wallet share. This takes “soft” business cases built around “blue dollars” and adds real substance to them. This also extends into the Community play of for transparency and value to the [...]
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Problem Solving by Design: Introduction
If you’ve ever struggled to make a decision … you’ve engaged in the design process, though you may not have even known it. In the next 5 chapters I’m goign to describe the 5 phases of design: Discovery, planning, design, execution, and follow-up.
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A new website is in order…
So I decided that a new website is in order. Why? Well, the current most recent version of my site was made in 2003, and a lot’s changed since then. First off, I’m not in the business of providing custom solutions anymore: that site really showed the range of services I had been providing my [...]
Auto-Auto-Biography With An Attitude
From the smoking cauldrons in Arlington comes an effort to track every electronic, and some not so electronic, bit of data surrounding a persons life. The electronic data mesh this conceives would be capable of making incredible connections between information, the needs for which are being questioned by government and private agencies alike… Wired News: [...]
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Quicksilver Looking More Like Fools Gold
Usability News: CHI 2003 Feature: Testing… 1 2 3 4 5 … Testing… The validity of Usability Testing, thought by many to be infallible at detecting a products defects, is called into question by industry leaders. In a panel discussion at CHI2003 it was discussed whether a) the majority of defects in an application are [...]
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Movable Type to Support FOAF
from Ben on RDFWeb list In an upcoming spin off on Movable Type, the folks at Six Apart are including support and networking of Friend of a Friend files from their upcoming product TypePad. It will be exciting to see where they go with this service. If they just link between their hosted page it [...]
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New Breed Librarian: Interview with Eric Miller
Eric Miller is the World Wide Web Consortium’s Activity Lead on the Semantic Web Initiative. He was previously a Senior Research Scientist for OCLC, as well as co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. …”The Semantic Web is all about data integration, and much richer ways of organizing things based on contextual [...]
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