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Jack Logan

Jack (4) - Google Wave - 34 views

wave.google.com/wave

contribute vote

shared by Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10 - No Cached
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  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    Ya'll come and give us your opinion.
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  • François Dongier on 30 Jan 10
     
    Sorry, can't get into that wave again... Other than that; I have the impression that Wave speed has been improving greatly in the last days. It's getting almost usable now, even on large waves.
  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    Try now, François!
  • François Dongier on 30 Jan 10
     
    thks Jack
  • frank smith on 30 Jan 10
     
    Thanks Jack!! For everyone, I have added new questions and some clarification sub-questions. Check back periodically to see/contribute to this document growing. Anyone who can't get in, please contact me: underbrain.industries@googlewave.com into your Wave contacts. I will add you to the poll wave. Or if you are connected with someone who is in, they can add you. I am attempting to flesh this survey out with more functionality, please add any questions that you think will add to the discussion. Peace!
  • Jack Logan on 31 Jan 10
     
    Continuing great job with this GWave, Frank. Come all and join in and tell all your preferences. The last junket of age is your preferences! lol And, ... I still have mine, ... for the moment. So, ... come on over before I lose some of mine ... lol
  • frank smith on 31 Jan 10
     
    Morning Jack!! On the subject of the survey's map, I made it public for easy access, and we have new flag from a new participant named Barney Lerten, in Bend, Oregon.....anybody know him??? Part of the little difficulties with Wave right now...public is public. Ah well....
  • Jack Logan on 31 Jan 10
     
    Morning Frank! Kurt and I talked a few days ago about this - he was concerned about locking things down at this point. I don't know Barney. Kurt?
  • François Dongier on 31 Jan 10
     
    Never heard of Barney before either. He was invited to the wave by "Public". As you say, Frank, public is public.
  • frank smith on 31 Jan 10
     
    It's a concern I share. That's why i move the stuff to Wave. we need a list of eceryone in the groups Wave IDs
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 31 Jan 10
     
    For my 2 sense...don't use Wave--set a private group here or somewhere else, that doesn't have the public/private issues of wave. the problem with wave is there is no central management--anyone can add anyone else to the wave, and pretty soon, ALL your content is visible. I suggest something a little bit more locked down, unless you want to be truly open-source, in which case, take Bent's lead, and move your discussions to codeshare.
  • frank smith on 31 Jan 10
     
    hey fish!! the only issue is that I was dumb and made something public. we have the same issues on Diigo. We just need a Wave group that includes all the interested people.
  • François Dongier on 31 Jan 10
     
    Agree with Frank. There is no use in letting Barney tell us where he lives, if we want to use the map gadget to choose a good place for a meatspace meeting. So this particular wave, given its intent, should have been restricted to the group. In many cases, I think it could be harmless to open a wave to the public: the crowd can contribute good things, we all know that... But I still think that, by default, wave access should be restricted to group members. It would maximize the sharing of relatively private or "sensitive" information within the group. It would also help keeping the discussions on topic (side-tracking is very easy in all forum discussions and the more people you have in the conversation the more side-tracking you get). Now of course anyone in the group can invite anyone, even "Public" into the wave: just like anyone who has access to a private document can copy it and paste it on a blog or any public place.
  • frank smith on 31 Jan 10
     
    Yes F1 (Francois, I will be F2)!! i think we can use the wave structures to keep things private and the fact that any of us can add anyone can be moderated by convention and the trust we have begun to build with each other. plus the reinforcement from the system, in that we all can see who has added whom. Plus the ability to delete participants will come along eventually. Thanks F1!!!
fishead ...*∞º˙

ignore the code: Realism in UI Design - 2 views

ignorethecode.net/...realism_in_ui_design

interface feature

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 24 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability.
  • In other areas, the improvements are questionable at best. Graphical user interfaces are typically full of symbols. Most graphical elements you see on your screen are meant to stand for ideas or concepts
  • Details and realism can distract from these concepts.
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  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 24 Jan 10
     
    something to keep in mind when the user-interface is developed.
Kurt Laitner

Collapse page and metapage - 6 views

I do like hilighting to show, but would like to be seeing only my and my colleagues hilighting within the context I am navigating to that page from, likely with toggles for 'all comments' 'all high...

usability

started by Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10 2 follow-ups, last by Kurt Laitner on 01 Feb 10
fishead ...*∞º˙

Favilous joins crowded social bookmarking space | VentureBeat - 4 views

venturebeat.com/...owded-social-bookmarking-space

favilous Networking bookmarking

shared by fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10 - Cached
  • A young UK-based startup called Favilous has joined the crowded social bookmarking space. It hopes to differentiate itself from the legions of existing bookmarking services by building a community behind the bookmarks, so users can share descriptions of sites and help each other discover new online destinations (see a clip from one of their tour slides below).
  • On the site, users can see other users’ popular bookmarks as well as the most popular bookmarks in various categories, including “Top Sites” and picks for categories such as food, entertainment, and travel. Once you sign up, you pick a number of categories, for example, blogs or music, that are of interest to you. Favilous populates the top sites in each of those categories, and to edit this list, you need to expand the category to see “all sites” and narrow it down from there, or else enter in a URL manually.
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  • The company plans to make money in 3 ways: by licensing the API to businesses and allowing them to customize Favilous for their own needs; by creating a subscription model to bookmark music playlists (they have reached out to Spotify to allow users to bookmark their playlists); and to possibly look at affiliate relationships and advertise to users, although they are hesitant to do that at this time.
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10
     
    looks like someone's beat us to the punch...
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  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    How so? Is there a revenue model? I didn't see it in the display. Don't like black. Not a good introduction. Where's the music? Where's the art?
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 30 Jan 10
     
    From the highlight: "The company plans to make money in 3 ways: by licensing the API to businesses and allowing them to customize Favilous for their own needs; by creating a subscription model to bookmark music playlists (they have reached out to Spotify to allow users to bookmark their playlists); and to possibly look at affiliate relationships and advertise to users, although they are hesitant to do that at this time." I agree though--I don't like the interface at all, and their usability is very limited. The thing is though, someone's plunked down a bunch of money for these clowns to make this piece of crap, so it just shows that with the right pitch, people will shell out cash for anything. Polish up those red heels Twain, we need a good story to sell.
  • Jack Logan on 30 Jan 10
     
    "Polish up those red heels Twain, we need a good story to sell."
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