When you talk about the Internet growing to 225 million sites, you’ve got to ask: Who’s parsing all that? How do you make sense of all that stuff?
While most big companies have or are thinking of having a social media strategy, Harvard Business School marketing professor John Deighton asks the show-stopper question:
“Don’t rule out the possibility that social media just aren’t for you. So far, much of what social media have done is quite mean-spirited. Could it be, one shudders to think, that these media are better at destroying value than creating it?”
Search Patterns: The Future of Discovery – Peter Morville Peter’s talk came to a somewhat slow start but ended up being quite inspiring. In the first part of his talk, Peter laid out some principal search patterns and placed them in different contexts, such as desktop, mobile and kiosk. These can be found at his Flickr “Search patterns” library. One of the patterns that received special attention was faceted search. In my humble opinion this is actually more of a browse-pattern than a search one. However Peter pointed out rightly that faceted navigation is one of the most powerful and complex patterns out there today, much underestimated by UX designers. It is hard to do right. Peter briefly touched upon a couple of important emerging search paradigms. * Question and Answer (Like Wolfram Alpha); * Helping decision making (Like Hunch); * Helping understanding the world (Like Oakland crime spotting); * Search by singing (Like Midomi).
– » UX London report: day 1 Johnny Holland – It’s all about interactionDigital AND traditional media consumption on the up.: Nielsen found that, while, time spent online grew by over an hour in 2009, consumption of traditional media (like TV, radio and newspapers) actually grew as well.
– Digital AND traditional media consumption on the up. | Speaking Sensis“Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam says that his company is working closely with Google on a tablet computer. The tablet will be based on the Android operating system.”
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John Lilly, the well-regarded CEO of Mozilla, is preparing to give up his post at the open-source software nonprofit foundation, which is also a for-profit start-up.
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