Google’s chief economist says executives in wired organizations need a sharper understanding of how technology empowers innovation.
via The McKinsey Quarterly – Hal Varian web challenge managers – Strategy – Innovation.
Good interface design is like the air we breathe – it’s there when you need it and you use it without thinking. If you’ve ever used a bad interface design, struggled to get around a site, clicked away because you couldn’t figure out what was going on, not been able to complete a task you had in mind, or just been plain confused, you’ll know the perils of going wrong in this area.
via 6 Interface Design Principles and Tips Every Web Designer Should Know – PSDTUTS.
XML photo gallery that let you see the photos as you were shuffling them from a bunch. In order to shuffle you have to take the photos to the edge and the photo will reach automatically the bottom of the bunch.
via PhotoShuffle – image gallery in AS3 at tezzutezzu.
Over the past few months, I have been helping a small team at Stanford’s Center for Professional Development launch a site which lets people around the world attend Stanford engineering courses free-of-charge. Built with ASP.net using Windows Media Services, the Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) site has ten full courses today with full lectures and materials. Because of the versatility of Windows media as an easily transformable format, they are able to offer the courses in a variety of formats and on a variety of sites
via Synergist : Now Everyone can Study Engineering at Stanford with Silverlight.
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You’d think Knowledge Management KM, that venerable IT-based social engineering discipline which came up with evocative phrases like “community of practice,” “expertise locater,” and “knowledge capture,” would be in the vanguard of the 2.0 revolution.
via Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War | SocialComputingMagazine.com.
Up now on the Apps Store are brand new versions of Atari classics Super Breakout and Missile Command, both redone with an added Xbox Live Arcade-style glossy finish.
Uau! O visual é de matar. Esse dá vontade até de pagar as doletas.
via Atari: Atari Classics Land On iPhone.
TeleGeography’s new Global Internet Map draws upon their annual Global Internet Geography research to provide a unique view of the world’s Internet backbone architecture.
via visualcomplexity.com | 2009 Global Internet Map.
http://www.oddee.com/item_96517.aspx.
Gostei muito do 404. É como me sinto nas últimas semanas: por favor, não estou on-line. Sim, vocês supersaturaram o processador, e ele subiu no telhado
The Unloader é o novo trabalho da FarFar para a Nokia, uma engenhoca genial para promover os smartphones E71 e E66. A “máquina” destrói todo documento enviado: planilhas, apresentações, imagens, textos, etc. E com requintes de crueldade (experimente as opções de destruição “Ring of Fire”, “The Dip” e “Fanfare”). Após o upload, o arquivo enviado passa pelo E71 ou pelo E66 e é impresso. No fim da operação, o vídeo da destruição do seu documento pode ser salvo, compartilhado ou postado em blogs e redes sociais. Pretty cool, ahn?