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Five myths about social media
From Putting People First

Five myths about social media

Ramesh Srinivasan methodically breaks down five ‘myths’ about social media in this Washington Post article: Here are his myths (which few in the UX community would...

Steve Jobs 1955-2011
From Computational Complexity

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

It's one of those events. You'll always remember where you were when you heard that Steve Jobs passed away. I was at dinner with several visiting computer scientists...

Visual Teams Book
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visual Teams Book

See a report on correspondent David Sibbet's new book:  Visual Teams: Graphic Tools for Commitment, Innovation, and High Performance.  To be released by October...

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From Wild WebMink

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma

Status Report: <i>Liars and Outliers</i>
From Schneier on Security

Status Report: Liars and Outliers

Last weekend, I completely reframed the book. I realized that the book isn't about security. It's about trust. I'm writing about how society induces people to...

Actionable Data in Mobile Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Actionable Data in Mobile Apps

An article for developers about how to get data from mobile Apps.    But also gives the non-developer an indication of what is there.   Mentions of a number of...

Why Creative Ideas are Rejected
From The Eponymous Pickle

Why Creative Ideas are Rejected

In CACM:  Why creative ideas are rejected, and what you can do about it.  A short article with some good thoughts.

Where does innovation comes from?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Where does innovation comes from?

I just finished Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley. Because I am an overly pessimistic individual, I expected to hate the book. I loved the book. I should point out...

Web Services Choreographies
From The Eponymous Pickle

Web Services Choreographies

This concept was new to me.   An outline article currently in Computing Now: " ... researchers have looked at service composition from two complementary pointsRelated...

From Computational Complexity

If you find a mistake in someone elses paper you should....

What do you do if you read a paper or book and find mistakes in it? My first impulse is to say: Email the author. Always be polite and admit (which is true) that...

Windows in Your Stuff
From The Eponymous Pickle

Windows in Your Stuff

In ReadWriteWeb on  Are You Ready for Windows in Your Things?  " ...  Microsoft is launching exactly that - a kind of consumer awareness campaign around the emergence...

NSF Launching
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Launching

At 11am EDT today, National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh — joined by numerous U.S. and international researchers, government officials, and National...

Insider Attack Against Diebold Voting Machines
From Schneier on Security

Insider Attack Against Diebold Voting Machines

This is both news and not news: Indeed, the Argonne team's attack required no modification, reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine's proprietary...

Conversations in Kodu
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Conversations in Kodu

Recently the Kodu team announced a new version of Kodu and a new Kodu Community Website. You can read a lot of the details at Announcing the Kodu v1.2 and the Kodu...

Growing Trust
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Growing Trust

In August USACM submitted comments on the draft green paper

Innovation Inspired by Nature
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovation Inspired by Nature

Bio-mimicry is innovation inspired by nature.  We explored it to broaden the potential solutions to difficult problems we encountered.  A good introduction here...

Security Cartoon
From Schneier on Security

Security Cartoon

Nice cartoon on the problems of content filtering.

New Master in UX in Rome, Italy
From Putting People First

New Master in UX in Rome, Italy

The La Sapienza University in Rome is organising the first User Experience Master for students who already have a previous degree. Although a highly laudable initiative...

P&G and Innovation
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G and Innovation

 In the local press: P&G's CEO Bob McDonald gives an urgent call to action to improve innovation.  Particularly speaks to the local culture of innovation.   I agree...

Investigating the experience of love for products
From Putting People First

Investigating the experience of love for products

“Shoes, cars and other love stories: Investigating the experience of love for products is the title of the doctoral dissertation (and a book!) by Beatriz Russo...
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