Author: Thomas Vander Wal

It is Getting Personal

May 31, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Calendar, Devices, Folksonomy, Mobile, Personal Info, PKM

One of the main concepts around the Personal InfoCloud is access to our information when we need it. It has become relatively easy to find digital information on the internet these days, but keeping track of information for ourselves is a huge problem. Not only do we have the problem of tracking our information on…
Focus of Startups

Apr 14, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Information Architecture, Personal Info, Social Software, Technology, User Experience

David Weingberger discusses Meet-up new charge to use plan and wonders about free competition. David, and those commenting on the posting, offer alternatives to Meetup. I am not so concerned with Meetup charging money as I am the changes that have come to Meetup in the past year, some have been very good. I have…
Good Bye to the User?

Apr 12, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Accessibility, Devices, Location, Mobile, Personal Info, Portability, User Experience

One of the side-effects of my focus on the Personal InfoCloud has been finding putting the focus on the person gets to more options than focussing on the “user”. When doing user interviews for existing systems and sites, we are interviewing people. These people we ask: What works for them; what is missing; What are…
SXSW Calendar the Personal Way

Mar 26, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Information Creation, Personal Info, Portability

I really enjoyed my short time at SXSW Interactive Festival this year. One of the things that helped me was their step to help people interested in SXSW to build their “own” calendar. Yes, they understood the people attending have a lot of offerings to consider and nobody wants to miss anything they really would…
Recent Speaking Engagements

Mar 10, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Conferences, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Location, Mobile, Personal Info, Portability

I have posted the last three presentations I have given in the last five days. The presentations and a little about each presentation are available as follows: IA for the Personal InfoCloud from the IA Summit, Folksonomy: A Wrapper’s Delight a panel at the IA Summit, and The Blog as Personal Knowledge Managment from a…
Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies

Feb 21, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Social Software, Web

I have been explaining the broad and narrow folksonomy in e-mail and in comments on others sites, as well as in the media (Wired News). There has still been some confusion, which is very understandable as it is a different concept that goes beyond a simple understanding of tagging. I have put together a couple…
New Home for Personal InfoCloud

Feb 8, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Folksonomy, Weblogs

This weblog now has a new domain attached, www.personalinfocloud.com. You may want to adjust your links and aggregation to update this change. Things will look a little funny at the old address. We made this change to be more future ready. We have had the domain for quite some time, but have not tied it…
Two Sides of the Local InfoCloud

Jun 23, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Connectivity, Information Creation, Location, Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing

The Local InfoCloud (one of four clouds, Personal, Local, Global, and External) focusses on access to information that is based on location, as well as membership. These two elements are related, but also can stand on their own. The Local InfoCloud often uses the Local Area Network (LAN) as an example of its properties. The…
Stitching our Lives Together

Apr 11, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Information Creation, Mobile, Personal Info, Portability, Social Software, Standards, Syndication, User Experience

Not long ago Jeffrey Veen posted about Will you be my friend, which brought up some needs to better stitch together our own disperse information. An excellent example is: For example, when I plan a trip, I try to find out who else will be around so I have people to hang out with. So…
PC Forum Eventspace – Users Make Content Their Own

Mar 28, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Content Mangement, Information Creation, Marketplace, Personal Info

PC Forum Eventspace – Users Make Content Their Own seems to have only part of the equation correct.