March 2008
The Archives
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flashback
average work day: 4 hours
An interesting look at life in the year 2008 circa 1968. My favorite part:
The average work day is about four hours. But the extra time isn’t totally free. The pace of technological advance is such that a certain amount of a jobholder’s spare time is used in keeping up with the new developments—on the average, [...]
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digg, flashback
The Internet Is A Fad
Thanks to Digg the most popular article on Newsweek.com is currently an opinion piece circa 1995 on this thing called “the internet.” See Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway:
“We’re promised instant catalog shopping–just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales [...] -
socialnetworking, sxsw
the intranet’s killer app
Here are the slides from my sxsw presentation (slides: social networking: the intranet’s killer app). They’re pretty terse by design mostly consisting of an image or a sentence or two per slide. So why is social networking the killer app for an intranet? Nutshell in one sentence, it provides a way for individuals to discover [...]
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mix08, socialnetworking, sxsw
March conferences
First up, MIX08 (March 05 – 07 in Las Vegas NV). I was excited to see a three-day user experience track added to the schedule. Most likely where I’ll spend my time:
Through unique content delivered by user experience thought-leaders, MIX UX broadens the content choices for designers and creative professionals to include broad and relevant [...]
