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Archive for December 26th, 2007

Placing Words: Symbols, Space and the City

Posted in experience integration, information architecture, library 2.0 on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »

Started reading William J. Mitchell’s Placing Words: Symbols, Space and the City over the weekend and am delighted I purchased this book on a whim while Christmas shopping at Borders. This quote alone is almost worth the price of admission ($19.95 in paperback):
“The social and cultural functions of built spaces have become inseparable from [...]

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Jakob Nielsen’s take on RIAs & Web 2.0

Posted in experience integration, information architecture, innovation, tagged , , , , , , on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »

Colleague Andrew Hinton forwarded this link to Jakob Nielsen’s recent rant on RIAs and Web 2.0 apps:  http://www.useit.com/alertbox/web-2.htmlGotta love those classic Nielsen overstatements:

“… on the Web, most people are bozos and not worth listening to.”
“The most-hyped site right now, Facebook, is the ‘Iron Chef‘ of the Internet. The Iron Chef competition makes for great TV, [...]

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