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An italian site, pazienti.org, has been launched to collect stories from patients. Healthcare is surely a relevant domain, and this seems very interesting from an itsme perspective...
Don Norman just published a very interesting article on natural user interfaces, here's a quote
Gestural systems are no different from any other form of interaction. They need to follow the basic rules of interaction design, which means well-defined modes of expression, a clear conceptual model of the way they interact with the system, their consequences, and means of navigating unintended consequences. As a result, means of providing feedback, explicit hints as to possible actions, and guides for how they are to be conducted are required. Because gestures are unconstrained, they are apt to be performed in an ambiguous or uninterruptable...
An interesting post to read:
“Microsoft and Apple aren’t going to open up all their stuff. But they all create programs that put pixels on the screen. And if we can modify those pixels, then we can change the program’s apparent behavior,” said James Fogarty, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering.
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His research allows people to personalize programs based on their needs.
The UW tool, named Prefab, takes advantage of the fact that almost all displays are made from prefabricated blocks of code such as buttons, sliders, check boxes and drop-down menus. Prefab looks for those blocks...
Since it is Friday, let me post something that is less related to itsme than usual (maybe). I just found a post on The hidden dangers of working in IT, like:
The fact is working at the computer means we miss out on the social aspect that most other jobs require so if we aren't careful we end up getting very rusty in the social skills which translates to fewer and fewer friends and eventually to lonely unhappiness.
Interesting (short) reading for a Friday afternoon, right before the weekend :)
via Happiness and IT: The hidden dangers of working in...
Some of the companies with which we talked told us they would love to have itsme and to be free from Microsoft Exchange, as Microsoft is taking too much money from them. Now it seems Google is providing them with a first way out.
Google Apps Migration for Microsoft® Exchange works with Microsoft Exchange 2003 and 2007, and both on-premise and hosted Exchange. It's available free to Google Apps Premier and Education Edition customers here. If you're considering the switch from Microsoft Exchange, you can find resources to help make your decision here.
via Official Google Enterprise Blog: Now it's easy to...
"At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for...
Wizbit is a way to store and organise your data which remembers every change you make, synchronises without worry, and is browsable in terms of how you think about the data you're looking for.
This seems to be a very interesting project: we still haven't designed how to deal with versioning (for real) and this seems a very interesting (and working) tool. It could be nice to pursue and integration with FSter.
Take a look at the timeline widget:
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via Demonstrations...
Let me clarify why I'm posting this video: it's not comparative advertising or speaking bad of a competitor. I'd just like to revitalize the discussion on one of the points from which the itsme project stems: control over personal data.
via THE BEAST FILE: GOOGLE on...
While our tech team is focusing on completing the development (and packaging) of our prototype, FSter is starting to get popular. Let me point out this post from "Quick and Dirty hacks":
With tracker, and fster we’re edging toward a solution to making everything accessible without the pain of sorting. Using these tools we can build semantic fuse file system. Still in it’s early stages and with lots of features to come, take some time to try it out!
via Where files go to hide | Quick and Dirty...
At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.
Wouldn't it be nice to have this power on the whole environment you're working...
