Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2011
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPad Usability
A very detailed study with many case examples by Jakob Nielsen. His work is always useful for designers of online experience. Points out how variable the iPad experience can be.Full article.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Google Analytics
Excellent introductory piece on how to use it and interpret the resulting measures. Full Mashable post
From Schneier on Security
New Siemens SCADA Vulnerabilities Kept Secret
SCADA systems -- computer systems that control industrial processes -- are one of the ways a computer hack can directly affect the real world. Here, the fears multiply. It's not bad guys deleting your files, or getting your…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Imagine Cup WorldWide Game Competition Finalists 2011
Andrew Parsons is the Game Capitan for the Worldwide Imagine Cup Game competition. This gives him a good close look at the competitors especially the finalists. This week he has posted summaries of the finalists in the three …
From Wild WebMink
? GagaGate, DRM and How To Cripple The Cloud
I’ve been watching the music marketing stunt that Amazon have pulled today with some interest. The story is that Amazon US are selling the new Lady Gaga album Born This Way in digital-only form for $0.99 today only – the whole…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Get $1 Million
“How do you get people to buy more? That’s the $1 million question — literally.” RichRelevance and Overstock.com have partnered to offer the first-ever
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovation and Invention Not the Same
Good Techdirt piece on the exploration of innovation. We met with PARC and had a lunch with Engelbart and discussed how the mouse eventually emerged, hoping to apply come of the ideas to internal innovation promotion and transmission…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Law and Big Data
Fascinating piece on the legal implications of big data and visualization. An area that I had not considered fully before. In particular: " .. Predicting the outcome of disputes, given the increased granularity and accuracy…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA Becomes a Founding Member of PACE
Last month, CSTA Executive Director Chris Stephenson and I attended the organizational meeting for the Partnership for Advancing Computing Education or PACE. PACE was formed with the goal to "provide a basis for computing education…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH Holding Crowdsourcing Workshop This Summer
A number of agencies within the NIH have come together to announce a one-day meeting on “Crowdsourcing: The Art and Science of Open Innovation,” to be held on the NIH grounds in Bethesda, MD, July 18, 2011.
From Putting People First
Growing Fredericia
Arup, Effekt and Experientia win second price in parallel urban renewal competition in Fredericia, Denmark The FredriciaC jury announced the results of an ambitious urban renewal project in Fredericia, Denmark, as the city seeks…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of May 23
May 23 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on the Administration’s cybersecurity proposal. 10:30 a.m., 342 Dirksen Building May 25 Hearing: The Intellectual Property, Competition…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2011-05-23
Open source .NET mimic rises from Novell ashes I'd heard Miguel was looking for funding to do this so I'm not surprised, but I still offer him warm congratulations and the best of luck in his new business. (tags: Mono OpenSource…
From Schneier on Security
Dropbox Security
I haven't written about Dropbox's security problems; too busy with the book. But here's an excellent summary article from The Economist.
The meta-issue is pretty simple. If you expect a cloud provider to do anything more interesting…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 23 May 2011
Every week end I go to grab by Twitter stream and the notes I have taken as ask myself
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storytelling at the Heart of Product Development
Why we need storytelling There's an interesting question on Quora right now:
If you had to pick between an amazing product designer or an amazing engineer to build a new company around, which would you pick and why?This question…
From Putting People First
New service design resource in France
Matthew Marino and his team of User Studio, a French user innovation and design company, have launched designdeservices.org, a great online resource for the francophone service design community – available in French of course…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mobile Usability Testing with Eye Tracking
A stand and process developed by Tobii to test mobile devices using eye tracking. Explanatory video. Looks to be well thought out for examples like shelf interaction.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Self Control
Dan Ariely looks at self control and its link to capitalism and its manipulation. " ... The scientific community is increasingly coming to realize how central self-control is to many important life outcomes. We have always known…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walmart Gathers in Kosmix, Goes Silent with Walmart Labs
Around May 3 Wal-Mart gathered up Kosmix, social networking player. I wrote about it then. At the same time the folks at Kosmix started to talk about a transition to what they called WalMart Labs. Very Intriguing to me. a…
From Putting People First
Create Your Own 2011
Create Your Own 2011 (CYO2011) is a highly recommended event taking place in Berlin on 30-31 May where participants can explore the reality and future behind individualisation, co-creation, and personalisation
From Putting People First
Are our lives vanishing into the cloud?
“[Soon] we will no longer possess, in a formal sense, our own stuff,” writes Adam Silver, design strategist at frog. “Not even on our hard drives. Instead, it will have gone fully virtual, kind of like Tron but without the neon…
From Putting People First
Ten principles that contribute to a Googley user experience
The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Statistician Reads Blink
An excellent two part (read them both) view of the analytical shortcomings of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Blink got the attention of many managers, and they brought Gladwell in to give talks the enterprise to show it could all…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Data! I need more data!
Big data! I don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web vs Native Mobile App
Thoughts on Native vs Web Apps in Readwriteweb:" What is the future of the mobile Internet? Are native applications going to be the dominant form of digital interaction? Will new and developing browser technologies like HTML5…
From My Biased Coin
NSF Bows to Blog Pressure (Tongue-in-Cheek)
As some of you may recall, I accused the NSF of being "misguided" in changing its graduate fellowship policy to effectively disallow teaching. So I was please to get home tonight and see that some students had forwarded meDear…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Plush Squid
Very cute.
From The Eponymous Pickle
MindBox Studios
Recently chatted with Mindbox Studios. Impressive so far. " .... Mindbox Studios is a web design and development company located in Cincinnati, Ohio. We specialize in social web applications, rapid prototyping, web-based…
From Wild WebMink
? OO.o, TDF and CLAs
Having read LWN’s (paywalled but accessible from here) interview with Mark Shuttleworth, where he is quoted as saying that the formation of The Document Foundation (TDF) and its launch of LibreOffice “led Oracle to finally decide…