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The usual test

Fri, 15 May 2009 19:40:36 +0900

The usual test

Tom Gruber: “If we want our technology to have...

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:24:24 +0900

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...

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:23:48 +0900

(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..."

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:36:27 +0900

“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..."

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:14:53 +0900

“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..."

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:58:44 +0900

“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..."

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:35:20 +0900

“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..."

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:53:05 +0900

“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..."

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:37:42 +0900

“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

eyeVio: Life-X (ライフ・エックス)

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:14:48 +0900

eyeVio: Life-X (ライフ・エックス)

"I think that when the dust settles in four or five years, the online backup market is going to look..."

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:56:23 +0900

““I think that when the dust settles in four or five years, the online backup market is going to look a lot like the anti-virus market. Almost every PC is going to ship with online backup built-in””

- Carbonite CEO: Online Backups Sell - GigaOM

"Or come up with social networking solutions that simultaneously encourage collaboration, decrease..."

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:20:13 +0900

“Or come up with social networking solutions that simultaneously encourage collaboration, decrease real estate costs, and increase energy efficiency?”

- Cooper Journal: Beautiful Monsters: Check your assumptions at the door

"La Chiesa cattolica francese ha deciso di lanciare un fondo, Ethica, per gestire i suoi..."

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:04:46 +0900

“La Chiesa cattolica francese ha deciso di lanciare un fondo, Ethica, per gestire i suoi investimenti. E sceglierà le azioni da prendere in base a criteri etici. Lo riportava l’altro giorno Le Monde. Da notare che solo il 38% delle aziende quotate in Europa si qualificano per questo fondo. Le altre non sono abbastanza etiche.”

- Luca De Biase

"Building great software, Cooper argues, requires embracing a new approach to design, one that..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:21:21 +0900

“Building great software, Cooper argues, requires embracing a new approach to design, one that distinguishes between three challenges: conceptual design, interaction design, and interface design. Conceptual design shapes what a product does. Interaction design determines how it behaves by examining what users are trying to do with it. Interface design affects how it looks and feels.”

- Software Doesn’t Have to Crash | Fast Company

"The fail-safe way to distinguish between quantitative and qualitative data is to focus on the status..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:22:25 +0900

“The fail-safe way to distinguish between quantitative and qualitative data is to focus on the status of a single observation or datum, rather than on an entire set of observations or data.”

- Usability test data

"Add up all the time you’ve wasted trying to get a new gadget to achieve the simple goal for..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:48:45 +0900

“Add up all the time you’ve wasted trying to get a new gadget to achieve the simple goal for which you bought it and you may find that computers have helped you waste literally weeks of your life.”

- ISO 20282: Measuring the usability of everyday products

"She sees the very limited access of the machine to the world and therefore the assymmetric ability..."

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:50:34 +0900

“She sees the very limited access of the machine to the world and therefore the assymmetric ability of human and machine to make sense of the interaction as the important problem in human-computer interaction.”

- Lucy Suchman: Human-Machine Reconfigurations | Design Research Network

"The roster of people who will participate in the creation of a standard way to describe them will..."

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:23:03 +0900

“The roster of people who will participate in the creation of a standard way to describe them will become increasingly important as machine learning becomes more important in our every day lives.”

- Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? - ReadWriteWeb

"If blogging was the key step in the democratization of content production, user scripts represent..."

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:48:59 +0900

“If blogging was the key step in the democratization of content production, user scripts represent the democratization of user interface design.”

- GreasePocket: Greasemonkey for the iPhone - ReadWriteWeb

"As tempting as it was to entertain the fantasy of learning Objective-C and producing a truly..."

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:54:20 +0900

“As tempting as it was to entertain the fantasy of learning Objective-C and producing a truly Internet-aware application that’s more than JavaScript and the DOM jammed together over HTTP, my sense of pragmatism took over four hours later. I could spend a few weeks writing a program that only a few people could use, on a locked down device running a locked down service — or I could continue to work on software free for anyone to use, not tied to a specific hardware platform or service.”

- How Steve Jobs Plans to Eat Firefox (and why I’m not getting an iPhone) | O’Reilly News