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m+mi works : blog : on interaction architecture teaching interaction /13 8 June 2013, 14:13 At the end of March I was at the FH Vorarlberg, Austria to teach my course, interaction design for the real world. As always, things evolved further: last year I had written the product vision briefing for GIMP, the software project that supplies the course with real‐life interaction design challenges. This briefing started to play a major role this year. In a very natural manner, the value and traits of GIMP, as described in the briefing, became central to all evaluation and design work done during the course. I also had the pleasure of introducing another interaction design taboo phrase. I just can’t get enough The GIMP design challenge I picked this year was the align tool. While preparing the course, I checked out the tool. How quaint. scenarios + variants To flesh out the essential use of the align tool, we made a few user scenarios: just align keeping things together true distribution all together now hands‑off four team results team one team two
E-Government Meets Web 2.0: Goodbye Portals, Hello Web Services Gartner recently released a couple of reports on how web 2.0 technologies are being used in e-Government. The reports are entitled The E-Government Hype Cycle Meets Web 2.0 and Government and Web 2.0: The Emerging Midoffice. Both are about how modern e-government efforts are moving away from the 'one stop shop' portal approach that characterized early efforts, and are turning more towards mashups and (to quote the first Gartner report) "a number of mostly adventurous initiatives with blogs, wikis or islands in Second Life." But it's the ecosystem of Web Services - and the reusability of content and services that Web Services enable - that really excites Gartner about web 2.0 in e-government. Control The 'Hype Cycle' Gartner report makes it plain that Gartner analysts do not consider all aspects of Web 2.0 to be useful in e-government. Don't all IT projects require focus? Note: this isn't an official government presence in SecondLife. Web Services to the Rescue! Conclusion
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Patent Prowess Dominating electronics once again are Hitachi, Matsushita, Xerox Corp., and Sony, just as it was in 2006. Cisco, Nokia, and Motorola remained at the top in Telecom Equipment, and General Motors, Nippnondenso, and Toyota led the way in the Automotive category. These are industries where the barriers to entry are so high that the leading companies change very little year by year. But in other industries, changes can occur rapidly. For the first time this year, our scorecard includes Computer Software as a separate industry (previously, hardware and software companies were listed in the same industry). AOL appears in the scorecards for the first time this year, and the same is true of Apple in the Computer Systems industry. Significant changes in international trends are showing up, even though the percentage of U.S. patent applications from foreign organizations and individuals has barely changed: it increased from 44 percent in 1997 to 47 percent in 2007.
How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions Wise Bread Picks Let's face it; no one likes the interview process. Well, certainly not the people being interviewed anyway. You have to be on your best behavior, you only get one chance to get it right, and it's like taking your driving test all over again. Over the years I've been to countless interviews. To get my first job out of college I attended some 15-20 interviews a week. 1. I'd be very surprised if you haven't been asked this one at every interview. 2. This should be a straightforward question to answer, but it can trip you up. 3. Do your homework before you go to any interview. 4. This should be directly related to the last question. 5. Hopefully if you're applying for this position you have bags of related experience, and if that's the case you should mention it all. 6. Ok, this is not the time for full disclosure. 7. This could include anything from night classes to hobbies and sports. 8. 9. Once again, there are a few ways to answer this but they should all be positive.
Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: Democratization of News Media It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade. It's been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. The newspaper industry has been particularly affected by the Web. Over the past 10 years, news media has undergone a seachange akin to the invention of the printing press in 1440. Just as Johannes Gutenberg's printing press brought books to the mainstream public in the 15th century, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web brought commercial publishing to the people. The Web has always been a medium where people could just as easily write as read (yes, the read/write Web), however it didn't reach its potential until blogging came along earlier this decade. Blogging Blogging not only allowed anybody to publish easily to the Web, it ended up shaking up the print media world. Blogging began in the 90s as a form of online diary - Rebecca Blood wrote a good pre-history in 2000. Blogging software was one part of the democratization of media.
The Road to the Semantic Web Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. John Markoff's recent article in NY Times has generated an interesting discussion about Web 3.0 being the long-promised Semantic Web. For instance, a short post on Fred Wilson's blog had a lot of lengthy comments attempting to define Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. Some people think that the Semantic Web is about AI, some claim that it is more about semantics, while others say that it is about data annotation. What is the Semantic Web? The Wikipedia defines the Semantic Web as a project that intends to create a universal medium for information exchange by putting documents with computer-processable meaning (semantics) on the World Wide Web. In order for computers to be able to solve problems like this one, the information on the web needs to be annotated with descriptions and relationships. RDF, OWL and the mathematical approach to annotation RDF is an XML-based language which enables description of relationships via predicates.
Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach Summary: The original vision of the semantic web as a layer on top of the current web, annotated in a way that computers can "understand," is certainly grandiose and intriguing. Yet, for the past decade it has been a kind of academic exercise rather than a practical technology. This article explores why; and what we can do about it. Update: Part 2 is available now Top-Down: A New Approach to the Semantic Web The semantic web is a vision pioneered by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in which information is expressed in a language understood by computers. The purpose of the semantic web is to enable computers to "understand" semantics the way humans do. For example, in a New York Times article, written earlier this year, John Markoff discussed a scenario where you would be able to ask a computer to find you a low budget vacation, keeping in mind that you have a 3 year old child. But while the vision of a semantic web is powerful, it has been a over a decade in making. Classic Semantic Web Review 1.