
Fiquem com uma foto de Ovronnaz na Suiça, a condizer com a quadra!
Este blog é sobre tudo o que me interessa sempre que a Internet seja o interface entre o negócio e o cliente!!... Neste blog haverá sempre referências sobre Usabilidade, Marketing Viral, Inteligência Colectiva, SEO, CRM, User Experience, Link Building e tudo aquilo que eu apanhar na rede ao final do dia e que me faça chocar os neurónios! ;)
For the seventh consecutive December, the magazine looks back on the passing year through a special lens: ideas. Editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in our nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright illegal innovations of the past 12 months.
“It’s really a field that has taken off in the last three, four, five years,” Dr. Redish said. “I think the Web has really made companies and agencies understand they are in a conversation with their customers.”• Porque estas duas disciplinas andam cada vez mais juntas: A Usabilidade e o SEO, fica aqui a sugestão de leitura
"... usability is becoming more and more important in sending your site to the top of the search results page (...) Usability and SEO go hand in hand."
A six-month research project has revealed a sharp division along class lines among the American teenagers flocking to the social network sites.• Human-Aided Computing. Investigadores da Microsoft tentam aprender como é que o cérebro humano efectua tarefas simples como distinguir uma mesa de uma vaca, ou reconhecer caras.
Now that 3D is back on the radars with the success of World of Warcraft or Second Life, it is not surprising to see retailers create shopping environments allowing them to reuse their hard-learned lessons.Mas por mero acaso Nicolas Nova destaca um paper de 1994 (um pouco antigo) mas que coloca algumas questões sobre a correcta percepção do 3D por parte dos utilizadores
Even though the paper is a bit old, it gives a comprehensive summary of the design issues regarding spatial input, especially regarding the perception of 3D. The authors describes how users have difficulty understanding three-dimensional space, based on user studies.Um tema a ter debaixo de olho nos próximos anos que deverá opor a ala dura da usabilidade, aos mais progressistas!
That sheriff is watching a movie because he has spare cycles. Spare cycles are the most powerful fuel on the planet. It's what Web 2.0 is made up of. User generated content? Spare cycles. Open source? Spare cycles. MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Second Life? Spare cycles. They're the Soylent Green of the web.
1. Curiosity• Command Line as the future of interface. É uma ideia a explorar no futuro dos interfaces. Nicolas Nova destacou esta ideia de Donald Norman que dá que pensar: o futuro dos interfaces encontra-se em linhas de comando, neste caso, os interfaces dos motores de busca que se resumem a uma caixa para colocar perguntas.
2. Seeing Problems as Interesting and Acceptable
3. Confronting Challenge
4. Constructive Discontent
5. Optimism
6. Suspending Judgement
7. Seeing Hurdles as leading to improvements and solutions
8. Perseverance
9. Flexible Imagination
• the users, the legendary and volatile “content generators”, needed to scale the system to a dimension where it starts to matter.
• the drivers, those building the community framework and, indirectly, allowing the participation incentives to flourish.
• the experts, bringing credibility to the whole edifice by sharing their extensive knowledge of their part of the knowledge long tail.
"No passado, há uns 10 anos atrás, as empresas queriam estar na “internet” simplesmente por estar, por status. Os sites das empresas se pareciam mais com “folders” do que com o que hoje conhecemos por “sites” (...) Mas é você que não deve enxergar o desenvolvimento para web como algo independente do objetivo final, que é o seu cliente/usuário."• Na Technology Review leio que já se podem utilizar fotos das nossas caras como emoticons... :) Isso vai ajudar na comunicação, se bem que haverá sempre algo que se perde. Nada como um frente-a-frente... O meu interesse neste tema vem da altura em que tive de escrever um paper sobre a Identidade na Comunicação mediada por computador.
Whether you use your computer for work or fun, the programs you use generally have one thing in common - they are stored on your PC. Increasingly though, that software is moving onlineVia BBC: Web 2.0 wave starts to take hold
Sociality is comprised of four behaviors:
- empathy
- the ability to learn and follow social rules
- reciprocity
- peacemaking
1. We don't know the subject area well
2. The project is based in a culture different to our own
3. We don't know who the users are
4. The product is one we'd never use ourselves
5. The product contains features for specific types of users
6. We need inspiration
7. We need empathy
8. We don't have much design expertise
Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle recently reporter Dan Fost claims that a new generation of IT workers has grown up, people who turn a laptop, a wireless connection and a café into an office and work wherever they happen to be.
Lets say you have ten support people, one has ten years of experience and the other nine have one year of experience each.
If all keep all knowledge to themselves the organisation would have 19 (experience-years * man-years ) as resource in total. (10*1 + 1*1 + 1*1...)
Worse, those 19 years of experience is not easy to use efficiently as nobody would know where to pipe a request or issue. "Who if anybody knows anything about this?"
Now, if the same team shared all, knew all, and used all, you would have 190 (experience-years * man-years) as total resource. (19*1 + 19*1...)
Current TV will broadcast non-fiction videos by "people making TV for the first time, and making it well", said Mr Gore, one of the channel's founders.• Mais notícias sobre a Web Semântica no MIT Technology Review:
...group of researchers working on a project called the Semantic Web, which seeks to give computers the ability--the seeming intelligence--to understand content on the World Wide Web.• Agora, o que a Microsoft anda a desenvolver para as buscas a partir de telemóveis:
O take off é um evento que pretende divulgar e dar a conhecer os projectos de empreendedorismo a nível nacional. Inspirado no BarCamp e no Tecnonov, terá um formato semelhante, com apresentações livres de quem estiver interessado.
Sites like Prezvid have been set up to keep a keen eye on what's going on, and commentators are already claiming that the activities of YouTube activists, blogging pundits and citizen journalists will be as significant to the outcome as editorials in the New York Times or commentary on Fox News.Sobre as presidenciais norte-americanas
The choice may also cause government leaders and policy makers to contemplate how they fit into the world of a participatory internet and user-generated content.
Time Magazine's decision to spotlight the participatory internet leaves little doubt that the issue has moved from edges of cyberspace into the mainstream, forcing policy makers to confront their role in this exciting new world.
The Web 2.0 provides myriad ways for people to interact and collaborate, and yet the vast majority of our political systems still revolve around a one-way, broadcast modelFazendo uma comparação com sistemas de comunicação many-to-many e one-to-many chego à conclusão de que muito tem de ser feito ainda ainda nas nossas Democracias...
Now it gets all the Google juice and doesn't pass any of it along to the sources from which it gets information. Links are currency on the web and Wikipedia just stopped paying it forward, so to speak.