Monday October 02, 2006 You Know You're a Geek When.....
You spend a good part of your Sunday configuring yet another personal information portal. I found Net Vibes yesterday and so far I'm having fun with it. It let's you bring in so much info from other places. I know other portals do this too, I just really liked the responsiveness of it. It's an interesting advance in the 'come to me web'* space. I also just like the name, names are important to me and Net Vibes is a good one.
*Come to me web is basically all the tools that allow the person browsing to create their own experience based on the content they want. RSS feeds, API's etc. allow people to build tools on top of these technologies. I first heard this term from a fellow Information Architect, Thomas Vanderwal at his Personal Info Cloud site.
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Net Vibes yesterday and so far I'm having fun with it. It let's you bring in so much info from other places. I know other portals do this too, I just really liked the responsiveness of it. It's an interesting advance in the 'come to me web'* space. I also just like the name, names are important to me and Net Vibes is a good one.
*Come to me web is basically all the tools that allow the person browsing to create their own experience based on the content they want. RSS feeds, API's etc. allow people to build tools on top of these technologies. I first heard this term from a fellow Information Architect, Thomas Vanderwal at his Personal Info Cloud site.&topic=Social Media"
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Friday September 22, 2006 A Great Summary of Web 2.0
I found this article on Boxes and Arrows. I thought is was a really nice summary of Web 2.0 principles and it also includes some great examples of companies joining the conversation. It even mentions a certain CEO blogger.
I especially like one of the core concepts of the article, "The architecture of participation is baked into the architecture of the software. Web 2.0 lets you share and incorporate multiple voices— your customers, your service reps, your employees—who quickly take the product, service, or idea in a direction that you could not alone."
I like the idea that it's in all of our hands now. 
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this article on Boxes and Arrows. I thought is was a really nice summary of Web 2.0 principles and it also includes some great examples of companies joining the conversation. It even mentions a certain CEO blogger.
I especially like one of the core concepts of the article, "The architecture of participation is baked into the architecture of the software. Web 2.0 lets you share and incorporate multiple voices— your customers, your service reps, your employees—who quickly take the product, service, or idea in a direction that you could not alone."
I like the idea that it's in all of our hands now. :)&topic=Social Media"
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Seth Godin on ThisIsBroken.com
Imagine getting off a plane with suitcase in hand, tired and anxious to get home. You're dismayed when you see many people headed for the taxis, but encouraged by an equally long line of cars waiting for fares.
But wait, you can't just jump into an empty cab and go. You're forced to wait in the cab stand line for an hour. Someone (who obviously doesn't use taxis) decided that loading the cabs one at time was a good idea. Wrong. It's dumb, and wastes everyone's time.
This is what motivated Seth Godin and Mark Hurst to create the site ThisIsBroken.com, to expose bad designs, and shame educate designers to make better choices by seeing just how silly, useless, and downright harmful a poorly conceived design can be.
My friends at Good Experience shared a video of Seth speaking at this year's Good Experience Live (GEL) conference — enjoy!
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