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.
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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...
Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, John Herlihy (Google Sales Chief) said:
“In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs”
We are wella ware of Google's vision (and approach) about cloud computing, but still we think personal computing (on local hardware and software) will still have a relevant role in three years.
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These all seems good reason for investing on the Web (let me drop "2.0" please) instead of trying to develop Personal Computing. What do you think about the 10 reasons in the video above? Do you think they impact our work, or (as I do) that user experience of Social Media could only benefit from having...
During my daily check of latest news and articles I found this interesting post on ArsTechnica , describing how and why Google is working on Chrome OS. It's a four-page article that I absolutely suggest you to read because it's very interesting. What really hit me is the workflow Google adopted to create Chrome: instead of spending millions in researches over "human-trends", an area that is everything but precise and measurable, they simply created a prototype and let it being adopted by 2 hundreds googlers. It sounds great: simple and smart and it's more or less the strategy that itsme...
Nowadays being updated is a must. The answer to this need is quite clear in our everyday routine: we use smartphones to be always ready for our business, to "make online things" and surely to enjoy staying in touch with our friends on most-rated social networks like facebook, twitter or flickr. Basically we are online from our most common places (aka office, home, university, gym, etc...) and we are online also during our "journey-time" (train, metro and so on) thanks to latest communication protocols, giving a real demonstration on what in the IT Science is called "ubiquitous computing".
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Again on Nepomuk (and therefore KDE), here's a (not so) brief overview of its features. Even if, as stated before, we are using another tool for our metadata management, it's worth keeping a discussion open on the topic. Just in case someone thinks we're not keeping an eye on what's happening around us ;)
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Designing innovation in personal computing can follow different approaches, but the first thing to do in user-centered design (UCD) is understanding who your target users are (so to involve them in the process). For itsme, we are taking high-profile PC workers as our target, knowing that what we are doing will probably not suit everyone's need. We are aware that other projects are refering to other kinds of users, with different characteristics and needs, leading to different design requirements. Eldy is an Italian project aiming at reducing digital divide by providing elder people with a simplified user interface to personal...
I would like to share with you these articles about innovation in user interaction http://jasonkolb.com/weblog/2008/08/user-interactio.html , and in particular one about a concept by Adaptive Labs called "Aurora" (look at the video clip – also embedded below the post).
I do not know if you already know about, but since I have seen you are refining your design solutions, and I am thinking and working on solutions to provide more tangibility for our virtual data (for my thesis), I think these articles could be somehow inspiring for you too. Ciao
Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on...
HTC Hero is the third Android powered device presented on the market but is the first huge customization of Android.
HTC Sense, this is what the new interface is called. It has a number of interesting features, but what i liked most is the new people/contact handler.
HTC introduces relation between the person and his interactions with other people, in fact from your address book you can look for a friend and get all the email, sms related to that contact, but also stay in touch with the social networks that you prefer, like facebook and flickr. So you can have all...
