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Tom Gruber: “If we want our technology to have world-changing impact, bring it to the interface: get useful knowledge from all those intelligent people on the Internet give the benefit of this knowledge to everyone. ” (via Start-up developing new Web interaction paradigm | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET )

Tom Gruber: “If we want our technology to have world-changing impact, bring it to the interface: get useful knowledge from all those intelligent people on the Internet give the benefit of this knowledge to everyone. ” (via Start-up developing new Web interaction paradigm | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

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(Credit: Tom Gruber) (via Start-up developing new Web interaction paradigm | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET )

(Credit: Tom Gruber) (via Start-up developing new Web interaction paradigm | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

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“It is also the sort of basic psychological research that we desperately need in the Web 2.0 world where major sites like Facebook are constantly being redesigned on the basis of little real understanding of how people engage with their computers.”
— Usability News - Between a Rock and an Interface
“clients at least have a better understanding of the role of user experience and more patience for seeing results.”
— LinkedIn: User Experience Company Group: Q&A
“Data consumers are no longer required to build pollers for any of the publishers pushing data into Gnip, they just give Gnip an endpoint and they push the data to them in real time.”
— Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model
“Imagine if your cellphone only allowed you to call people on the same network as you. Would you lose touch with your friends on other networks or carry around multiple cellphones for calling friends on different networks? We wouldn’t accept these conditions today with our cellphones and yet we are forced to put up with it when it comes to interacting with our friends on social networks.”
— Chi.mp - Content Hub and Identity Management Platform
“MySpace Music also lets users see what their friends are adding to playlists in an activity-stream like list on the music dashboard (MySpace COO Amit Kapur, it tells me, just added Electric Feel by MGMT). With a click, I can add that song to any of my playlists, too. Soon all this playlist data will let MySpace do even more with recommendations. You won’t just see top 100 lists across music categories. You’ll also see top songs from your friends, or from people like you, etc.”
— MySpace Music Puts The Industry On The Right Track
“I pay no taxes on the overall value of my stock portfolio, just on my cashed-in gains and collected dividends. But Americans pay taxes on the full $11 trillion worth of housing they own plus the $10 trillion worth of it they’re still paying off.”
— Why rent? To get richer - MSN Money

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