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Co-creation
From Putting People First

Co-creation

Fronteer Strategy, an Amsterdam-based management strategy consulting firm, has published a short (6-page) paper on co-creation, in which they argue that there are...

From Putting People First

For months now, I have been running with this simple thesis in my head: “We are all hackers now”, and again, again and again I notice it getting confirmed. The...

Design Fiction, an Interactions Magazine cover story by Bruce Sterling
From Putting People First

Design Fiction, an Interactions Magazine cover story by Bruce Sterling

As a contributing editor for Interactions Magazine, I am tasked with finding clever people to write a story for the magazine. My first choice was Bruce Sterling...

Sears IPhone Application
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sears IPhone Application

I downloaded the Sear2Go application for the IPhone and played with it. Fairly basic interface that worked well on WiFi. Was able to browse deals, coupons and...

Africa Gathering in London
From Putting People First

Africa Gathering in London

Today was the Africa Gathering in London and ICT4D, an Austrian NGO dealing with ICT for development, has done an excellent job at summarising them: Summaries 1...

Keeping it real: Interaction in the real world
From Putting People First

Keeping it real: Interaction in the real world

The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted...

European Commission launches public consultation on design as a driver of user-centred innovation
From Putting People First

European Commission launches public consultation on design as a driver of user-centred innovation

Yesterday, the European Commission launched a public consultation on design and innovation on the basis of a recent Commission staff working document on “Design...

Moral Instinct and Norman Borlaug
From The Eponymous Pickle

Moral Instinct and Norman Borlaug

I was pointed to an item in the NYT by Steven Pinker on Moral instinct which points to Norman Borlaug. Name sounded familiar but did not register. The article...

BrandImage Shines
From The Eponymous Pickle

BrandImage Shines

An interesting design project which also includes olfactory presence and design by Brandimage

Spansion packs a whole lotta RAM into your
From insideHPC

Spansion packs a whole lotta RAM into your

Early this week flash memory vendor Spansion announced its EcoRAM solution, a product that lets you cram 512 GB of flash memory that presents as RAM to an Opteron...

White House Cybersecurity Review Complete; Public Announcement Expected Soon
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

White House Cybersecurity Review Complete; Public Announcement Expected Soon

The Obama Administration recently finished a 60-day review of federal cybersecurity efforts. Melissa Hathaway, Acting White House Cyberspace Director, indicated...

Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
From The Noisy Channel

Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting

If you’re attending the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week, please let me know! I’ll be there all day Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be talking...

Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
From The Noisy Channel

Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting

If you’re attending the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week, please let me know! I’ll be there all day Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be talking...

Book Writing vs. Blogging
From The Noisy Channel

Book Writing vs. Blogging

When I announced that I’d be writing a book, I promised that I would blog about the experience. It may seem odd that I’m only blogging about it now, when I’m almost...

Book Writing vs. Blogging
From The Noisy Channel

Book Writing vs. Blogging

When I announced that I’d be writing a book, I promised that I would blog about the experience. It may seem odd that I’m only blogging about it now, when I’m almost...

Google Analytics API Launched
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Analytics API Launched

It was brought to my attention that the Google Analytics API was recently launched. Will take a close look. Much more here.

InsideTrack: rumors of other bidders for
From insideHPC

InsideTrack: rumors of other bidders for

I’ll show you mine if you show me yours…here’s what I’m hearing about companies sniffing around SGI and looking at the potential of bidding against Rackable. Cisco...

Advertising Yourself
From The Eponymous Pickle

Advertising Yourself

From Knowledge@Wharton: Advertising Yourself: Building a Personal Brand through Social Networks. " ... According to Jonah Berger, Wharton marketing professor, using...

Fortune 500 Blogging
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fortune 500 Blogging

From SNCR, research results on corporate blogging and its use with other social media.Authors Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Research Chair of"...

Geocities Gone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Geocities Gone

Geocities, the oldest free web site community, is gone. It was fifteen years old. Quite a few web-years. Like the article says, I had forgotten it still existed...
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