Posted in delicious on 23 March, 2008 | No Comments »
War of the Worlds: The human side of Moore’s Law (Cringely)
How will technology change our education system? If all full MIT courses are online, what does it mean to pay high tuition? Should we learn knowledge facts or research strategies?
(tags: future generation education technology)
IT’s Recovering Complexaholics (CIO India)
Nice word: compexaholics. How hard can it be [...]
Posted in delicious on 20 March, 2008 | No Comments »
A ‘Where’s Waldo’ Approach to Problem-solving (ChangeThis)
Although the title suggests that you should choose the first solution to a problem, it actually goes into more detail on how to find the first optimal solution. The article also presents a number of pitfalls. All in all a quick but valuable read.
(tags: solutions innovation problemsolving collaboration)
In search [...]
Posted in delicious on 19 March, 2008 | No Comments »
Web Mashups Made Easy (Technology Review)
Yet another mashup maker will hit the web soon, now one by Intel. A great observation is made in this article: normal web users are not interesting in making mashups, and programmers who are interested don’t want to use the limited mashup creators.
(tags: intel mashups web2.0)
Executive Insights into Enterprise 2.0 [...]
Posted in delicious on 18 March, 2008 | No Comments »
Andermans site scrapen, wanneer mag dat? (SYNC.nl)
(Dutch content) This article gives a good overview about what can and cannot be done under Dutch law regarding site scraping. It’s all down to the databaseright. If the serious investments were made in the database (infrastructure), you can’t scrape.
(tags: scraping mashups web2.0 law copyright)
Personas and the Role of [...]
Posted in delicious on 15 March, 2008 | No Comments »
Yahoo Search and the Semantic Web
Interesting news. Yahoo is planning on using microformats to enable a simple form of semantic search. This could indeed be the killer-app for the semantic web movement. The low cost of adding microformats weighs up against better search capabilities.
(tags: yahoo search semanticweb microformats web3.0)
Posted in delicious on 11 March, 2008 | No Comments »
QEDWiki (alphaWorks Services)
This mashup generator from IBM looks very promising, and goes a lot further than something like Yahoo Pipes. There are some videos in youtube about this, very nice to get a quick idea of what it does!
(tags: mashups web2.0 wiki ibm)
Posted in delicious on 6 March, 2008 | No Comments »
Portal Transparency
I came across this idea through Jon Udell’s blog about Ward Cunningham. The idea is to visualize the actions of people on websites. I can see this being very valuable for validation of user interface principles after putting a product into the market.
(tags: testing visual usability transparency)
Posted in delicious on 5 March, 2008 | No Comments »
About our maps (The EveryBlock Blog)
In the world of mashups and web2.0 this is an refreshing sound: “[we used our own maps], it gave us more choices and greater flexibility than we would have had if we had made yet another Google Maps mashup”. Also nice to see what technology they’re using.
(tags: maps mashups django [...]
