Posted in delicious on 31 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Good Experience: The top 8 mistakes in usability (and companies investing in it)
Small liist of usability mistakes. I like point 2, which in my experience is the same as going the (wrong) persona route. Potentially, personas are a self-fulfilling prophecy: designing for a persona and then testing by pretending to be the persona.
(tags: usability design [...]
Posted in delicious on 30 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Innovation Teams 2.0 (Irving Wladawsky-Berger)
Wladawsky-Berger hits an excellent point in this article, which investigates the role of R&D labs as ivory towers. His main point is that talented people innovate together across organisational borders in virtual teams on complex company problems.
(tags: innovation services team research customer openinnovation)
X-Teams: Teams get extroverted (Deborah Ancona)
Building teams is not [...]
Posted in delicious on 29 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Science and Technology-Led Innovation in Services for Australian Industries
This report is interesting for the extensive description about what services are and their relation to science and technology innovation. Especially chapter 2 is worth reading. All other parts deal with the Australian situation.
(tags: services definition innovation science technology)
Posted in delicious on 28 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Intentional Software - Democratizing Software Creation
I’ve seen this presentation at the QCon 2008, however it was not presented by Charles Simonyi then. It is an exciting idea, however there are still some holes in the validation, testing and evolution of the DSL scripts. But it is nice to closely involve domain experts.
(tags: dsl intentionalsoftware domain [...]
Posted in delicious on 27 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Amazon.com gets POD publishers angry
Amazon is not always the cool company it seems to be: They are trying to convert all the printing-on-demand (POD) business to their own service called BookSurge. Publishers that do their own POD will loose the ‘buy’ button from their books. Fishy…
(tags: amazon pod monopoly books
Debugging Django (Simon Willison)
For some personal [...]
Posted in delicious on 16 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships: The Key to Avoiding Commoditization
I just finished reading the book with the same title (Ross Dawson). The book sums up techniques to set up knowledge based relationships with clients. In everything that is described avoiding commoditization is the main goal. Great as a reference guide.
(tags: commoditization consultancy services book tips)
He Wrote [...]
Posted in delicious on 15 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Bezos On Innovation (BusinessWeek)
Always cool to read about big corporations that are good at innovation. He states that sometimes it’s good to be frugal (creativity to move out the box) about innovation, where at other times you should go full ahead with as many resources as possible.
(tags: amazon innovation management)
Science 2.0 - Is Open Access [...]
Posted in delicious on 14 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn? (Wired)
This is an amazing story about a man from Poland who totally devoted his life to his understanding of how people learn. The method involves relearning things right at the time you forget them. Of course, aided by computer programs (e.g. SuperMemo).
(tags: brain learning psychology education language)
Open source [...]
Posted in delicious on 10 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Bug Labs
Hardware hacking 2.0: an open source hardware platform with hot plugable modules that add interesting functionality. It’s more than just hardware or software, it’s all about the community around it.
(tags: hacking community gadgets opensource electronics diy linux)
Posted in delicious on 9 May, 2008 | No Comments »
Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun! (New York Times Blog)
This really shows where the world is going with ‘computing in the cloud’. Imagine what it would have costs (or how long it would have taken) to do this without Amazon (too bad that there aren’t many competitors yet… 
(tags: amazon ec2 nytimes ocr cloudcomputing)
