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some good tips for making a ‘real’ conference more ‘virtual’

thoughts on Office 2.0 by the guy who’s organising the accompanying conference

Visual Search applications for stock photography and footage, content management, broadcast and entertainment, asset monitoring and video editing

Niko Nyman is tired of wow. I’ve been thinking about ‘wow’ in design a bit lately… this is a bit different to what i’ve been thinking but his point about testing over time yielding different results is a good one.

heehee. Funny, but pretty close to the mark

How can you shift the conversation from an analysis of specific solutions to a broader discussion that better defines the problem you are trying to solve?

Some interesting ideas around tag-wrangling to address the unscalability other problems with tagging.

DIY Podcasting – get into it! :)

Jeff Atwood hates dialogue boxes: “Every time you send your users to an alert dialog, you have failed them. In a perfect world, we should never see a single alert dialog. Ever.” Check out his post, then let’s discuss :)

don’t know about you, but being able to run Keynote is almost a good enough reason to get a Mac, and I’m on the prowl for a PC-friendly alternative to PowerPoint. Empressr is still really buggy tho, so not an alternative at the moment. Oh, and it’s web based… scary!

“We need their colleagues walking up to their cubes and interrupting with questions. If we’re designing products for those hectic environments, then we need to do more to appreciate that context.”

remote usability tool as used by Adaptive Path (and others, I’m sure)

this was an interesting read – particularly after Andy’s example of the airport UX at BarCamp last weekend.

In the paper we present two taxonomies of tagging, the first dedicated to design decisions in tagging systems, and the second to the incentives that drive people to tag therein.