ChiefTech

AUGUST 7, 2008

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. That information could be anything; a company’s product list, pictures of your vacation, or an instant message from a friend. At this moment, there’s more information available to you than at any other time in history. All this information has a lot of positive effects, but it also creates challenges. “What information consumes is rather obvious; it consumes the attention of its recipients … a

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JULY 17, 2008

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Information Matters

MAY 1, 2008

Sean over at Got LinkedIn has taken to Bitstrips (see my Bitstrips review at The Virtual Handshake) like a fiend. Here are his latest installments: Sean has a new e-book coming out — watch for it on his blog.

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OCTOBER 28, 2008

Next up in our ongoing tour of conversations at Web 2 next week is Lance Armstrong , the seven time winner of the Tour de France, who recently announced his "de-reitrement" and is going for an eighth win. This appearance, a dinner conversation on day one , is one of Lance's only public appearances since he announced his comeback. He's also an internet entrepreneur, having launched Livestrong.com , a health site, earlier this summer.

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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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DECEMBER 12, 2008

On October 1, 2008, the Article 29 Working Party issued a toolkit on Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) aimed at promoting them as a mechanism for transferring data to countries without an adequate level of data protection. The toolkit includes: (1) a table highlighting the elements and principles to be found in BCRs (WP 153); (2) a document setting up a framework for the structure of BCRs (WP 154); and (3) a revised version of the FAQs on BCRs (WP 155).

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I started writing this article with an emphasis on the financial domain. I then realized that I would like to broaden the focus because my findings are also applicable to a general domain like email account registrations, for example. In this article, I would like to take a simple example of how users register for an email account online. For a first timer, is the transition from a real world of letter writing to the online medium easy?

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Mana from the heavens for cloud sceptics - on a day a lot of professional photographers lost all their images due to the failure of photo hosting site Digital Railroad went under - as Twitter users fanned their egos en masse to parade their ‘twitterank‘ to their followers. Twitterrank has no apparent purpose beyond a sketchy [.

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 14, 2008

One of the most frequent tasks on many intranets is finding people within the company. Providing an effective way to search people is thus a key goal in designing intranets. This goal becomes even more important for an organization like Emirates, a leading international airline, which has over 35,000 employees with over 140 nationalities and where more people are likely to use this feature more frequently.

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 28, 2008

Here’s how the game works: You’re on your computer, instant messaging away. One IM session is with a real person and the other is with an artificial intelligence (AI) program that’s designed to pose as a human being by using a casual conversational tone. The AI is able to respond in complete sentences with realistic syntax to mask its identity, even throwing in slang, canned humor, or typos.

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ChiefTech

JULY 10, 2008

As we discussed in “part one&# :[link] the skills in research, information architecture, interaction design, graphic design and writing define the recognized areas of User Experience design. However, there still remains much to discuss about what makes a UX team dreamy. Each UX Dreamteam has a finely tuned mix of skills and qualities, as varied as the environments in which they operate.

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Information Matters

MAY 1, 2008

Sean over at Got LinkedIn has taken to Bitstrips (see my Bitstrips review at The Virtual Handshake) like a fiend. Here are his latest installments: Sean has a new e-book coming out — watch for it on his blog.

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AUGUST 14, 2008

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DECEMBER 6, 2008

The bulk of the German Army-the dough feet of the normal infantry divisions-moved on shank’s mare. The rifle companies’ transport consisted of three-horse wagons, on which the troops loaded their packs, as did this outfit on campaign in Russia in the summer of 1941. Lone Sentry.com Not many people know that the greatest use of horses [.

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

User Experience (UX) Week was held in San Francisco, CA from August 12 – 15. Boxes and Arrows, in co-operation with Adaptive Path, interviewed speakers in UX, IA, IxD, and Human Factors. Many thanks to the entire team at Adaptive Path for the opportunity to share these conversations with the communities of practice. Sketches from UX Week. T. Scott Stromberg from 404 User Experience Design and Ty Hatch of Ty Hatch Design captured the UX Week presentations with some quick and brilliant sketc

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ChiefTech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

It starts with any number of scenarios: Design and development have taken too long to produce a prototype, you need to release in three weeks, and you suspect there may be design flaws. You are trying to incorporate usability testing into an Agile development process. Or maybe you simply want to pare down your process to make it shorter and less expensive.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This week’s Web 2.0 Summit was characterized by some very big picture ideas culminating in final keynote speaker former US vice president Al Gore laying out his vision for a ‘Unified National Smart Grid’: a new, state of the art integrated electrical infrastructure for the USA. The proposed smart grid would take advantage of [.

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ChiefTech

OCTOBER 16, 2008

The “IDEA Conference&# :[link] took place in Chicago on October 7-9 at the Harold Washington Library Center. The speakers pushed the boundaries of what it means to design complex information spaces of all kinds. We can all expand our practice by absorbing their experiences and ideas. In cooperation with the “IA Institute&# :[link] we’re happy to bring you recordings of most conference talks.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

In another sign of the continuing maturity of Enterprise 2.0 technologies, open source social enterprise collaboration vendor MindTouch and open source data integration framework company SnapLogic announce a new partnership today. SnapLogic have a terrific reputation in the open source data integration world, linking (with ‘pipelines‘) the RESTful foundational building blocks that enable enterprise scale [.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2008

There was a fairly major example of how external social networks can spin out of control last week: Virgin Atlantic (which despite its name is a major international airline that flies all over the world) have a FaceBook presence, with 6,944 members as I write this. Last week Virgin got a lot of publicity for firing [.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

After my post yesterday afternoon about Twitterank, its creator Ryo Chijiiwa contacted me by email to ask if I’d like to hear his side of the story: I offered him a guest post. Over to Ryo: I blame the Family Guy. There I was in my hotel room, where I’m staying while in NY for [.

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AUGUST 18, 2008

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ChiefTech

AUGUST 7, 2008

Games are fun, addictive, beautiful, and immersive. Websites, for the most part, are not. Take a moment and think about what video games look like, what they sound like, the way you can move on the screen, what “you&# can be. Think of how you feel when you play and who you play with. Consider the launch of Halo 3 on Xbox 360, with unprecedented graphics, sound, and interactivity that Time.com called “refined to the point where it delivers only pure unadulterated gaming bliss.&# Peopl

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 13, 2008

Next up in the star lineup of conversants at the CM Summit this week is Evan Williams , the co-founder of Blogger, which Google acquired in 2003, and current co-founder of Twitter, which I've written about recently (TweetSense, anyone?). Evan's knack for conversational social media applications is obvious , but as Twitter settles into its place as a Web 2 favorite (and punching bag ), one key question does remain - what's the business model?

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ChiefTech

OCTOBER 19, 2008

The only reason I know Jeremy Thomas is through his blog , but I was always impressed by his thoughtful and pragmatic posts about Enterprise 2.0. So, when I heard he had co-authored a book on implementing Enterprise 2.0 (with Aaron Newman from Techrigy ), I was really pleased to be sent a copy from him to review. Just to set your expectations, this book is mostly focused on the implementation of the technology behind Enterprise 2.0.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Perhaps the best example of a company leveraging new media to turn nasty customer complaints into happy customer evangelists is Comcast. Yes, you read that right, Comcast. This nifty piece of conversational jujitsu has been accomplished in large part by Frank Eliason, better known by his handle @comcastcares on Twitter. I've been following Frank's work on Twitter for a while, it seemed he was always listening to what folks were saying, and when folks (inevitably) ranted about Comcast service, he

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

I do this too much - post something short, as a note to myself and all of you that there is way more to say, then end with "I'll say more in the next post." Then I get busy and forget about that "next post" thing, and start posting on other stuff. What I really meant was, "in my next post on this topic.". Hope that clarifies things. OK. So what was I talking about when I wrote: "Facebook had a "malfunction" today that reset all my email notifications.

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I’ve just spent a couple of fascinating days at the HCL Global Meet in Orlando, Florida. As the name suggests this was a very international gathering of HCL’s partners, clients, staff and thoughtleaders in the management and collaboration space. I’ve written before about HCL’s ‘Employee First’ management innovations: I previously met HCL CEO Vineet Nayar at [.

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OCTOBER 26, 2008

Every so often you come across a web application that is a game changer: the utility of browser plugin reframeit is a hugely powerful adjunct to your use of the entire web. The video above demonstrates marking up the transcript of a political speech with associated facts and links using reframeit that will be associated [.

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