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Khoi Vin, who once did a killer B&A redesign (that didn’t get done) doesn’t like the site’s new design. I agree, and would like to add that a site like this can’t afford to not include a decent print stylesheet…
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I recently switched to Google Reader. Until I write a blog post about it, here’s a piece on one of the features I like: personalized feed reading trends.
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Veen on his work for Google Reader — the new trends page: “this serves as a good example of collecting and understanding the ambient information that flows through our digital lives.”
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“This is going to be one of the great benefits of ambient/pervasive computing or everyware — not the tracking of objects but the tracking and collating of you yourself through objects.”
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Nielsen explains the benefits of progressive and staged disclosure.
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Régine Debatty reviews a documentary film on underground pop culture created with and through games.
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Good stuff on the use and components of recommendation engines, pointing to some new directions that can be investigated.
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Short but sweet post on WIkiseek; a search engine that restricts it’s search to Wikipedia pages and pages directly linked to from the Wikipedia.
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A review of Mind Hacks and an interview with Matt Webb. I would love to see him write the Persuasive Hacks book he mentions.
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A piece on the different laws that apply to different types of networks and their sizes.
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IxD guru and Apple veteran Tognazzini takes a look at the iPhone demo’s and to the surprise of many is actually quite positive: “iPhone is glorious, and it is only the beginning.”
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A piece by a wiki consultant on the ways in which one can organize a wiki. The most important point he makes is: “planning organizational strategies is really not the place to put most of your energies. Rather empowering people through good tools and perh