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Web 3.0 Density with Clima.me

June 21, 2011
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Over at Total Social Media, and as part of their Web 3.0 Lab, they’ve developed a pretty cool mashup of location and social/semantic data called Clima.me. Clima.me is a tool that measures the density of location-tagged data from a number of web apps (Twitter, Wikipedia, Flickr, Yelp, and Foursquare) and kicks back a Web 3.0 [...]

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Brand Spankin’ New WordPress

June 17, 2010
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WordPress released version 3.0 of the popular publishing platform today. I’ve already upgraded this blog to that version. You probably can’t tell by looking at it, but it just feels better… Doesn’t it?
I’ve already benefitted from the bulk update option. That will be a real time-saver in the long-run. For [...]

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What’s your social footprint?

June 9, 2010
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At my day job, we’ve been looking at mobilizing our people to get the most benefit from our social channels.  We’ve encouraged people to begin blogging internally and we promote particularly salient posts to the outside world.  Blogging started slowly, but it’s picking up speed now as people begin to see the value in it [...]

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Apple HTML5 Showcase

June 4, 2010
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Apple has added a showcase of HTML5 functionality on their site. It’s a pretty impressive display. However, you’re limited to Safari for viewing options. As HTML5 continues to get rolled out as a standard, creating rich web experiences will get a whole lot easier. I just hope that the uncomfortable period [...]

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Following Function

March 24, 2010
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Smashing Magazine has a good article written by Steven Bradley examining web design through the Bauhaus lens of “form follows function.” He first gives a pretty good summary of the history of Bauhaus and the evolution of its principles, then turns his attention to interpreting the validity of form following function. Unfortunately, [...]

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Zeitgeist from the Cloud – Tapping your audience

March 17, 2010

Jeffrey Veen has an interesting post over at his blog discussing a stream of Twitter data coming in while he was speaking at a conference. He says he felt as though he was cheating on an exam by “listening” to what the audience was saying as he was speaking. By addressing audience concerns [...]

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A Word on the Tagline

March 1, 2010

You may notice the tripartite slogan that’s part of the logo of this site:  Useful, Usable, Compelling.  Those three concepts are the pillars of the framework I use to design or analyze a system.  In short, what I mean by these terms is:
Useful
Does the thing do what it’s supposed to do and only what it’s [...]

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Catching a Wave

November 15, 2009

While some of the initial fervor over Google Wave has died down, desire to obtain one of the elusive invites remains just this side of Charlie Bucket’s desire for one of Wonka’s Golden Tickets. For those who have been lucky enough to receive an invite (like myself), an initial period of confusion is soon [...]

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One Card (App) to Rule Them All

August 6, 2009

A while ago, I got tired of fishing through my wallet for any of the myriad rewards program cards that I have. I also started leaving them at home to prevent my wallet from turning into a meatball in my pocket. That got me thinking: Wouldn’t it be great to have just one card to [...]

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WolframAlpha update

June 16, 2009

So, WolframAlpha has been out a while now and I’ve had several chances to use it. Occasionally, I’ve used it when I needed it. It always takes a while for a tool to take root in my psyche. Occasionally, a tool proves itself so useful that it takes root quickly (like Google, [...]

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