Author: Thomas Vander Wal
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Upcoming.org and Others Understand Ease of Information Reuse
Some sites are getting that helping the user with date related information by providing the information in a standard format that allows the user to drop the information into their calendar tool. One such site is Upcoming.org’s iCal Integration. The I recently ran across a similar tool, but for vCal, on the Hilton site. When…
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Tools to Manage Information On Your Personal Hard Drive
I have been battling the management of information on my personal hard drive on my TiBook. This is one element in my Personal Info Cloud (a self-organized information system that is managed by me and is there to assist me when I need information). I have been finding that my organizational structure is lacking on…
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Keeping Found Things Found
This weeks New York Times Circuits article: Now Where Was I? New Ways to Revisit Web Sites, which covers the Keep Found Things Found research project at University of Washington. The program is summarized: The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively small number of things they are…
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Building a Web Based E-Notebook
The Journal of Digital Information has an article on Implementation Challenges Associated with Developing a Web-based E-notebook by Yolanda Jacobs Reimer and Sarah A. Douglas. This Journal article seems to cover good research information on personal information aggregation. The e-notebooks discussed are similar to weblogs, but are means of storing information for personal retrieval. The…
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IBM Redesigns E-Mail
There is another e-mail redesign in the work, IBM’s Remail is a research project that seems to be on the right track. There is serious need for outlook replacements so that we can have a mail, calendar, and other communication tool that actually works as one needs it to.
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A Look at iPIM and Chandler
There are two articles that are direct hits on managing information for the individual and allowing the individual to use the information when they needed it and share it as needed. Yes, this is in line with the Personal Information Cloud. The first article, The inter-personal information manager (iPim) by Mark Sigal about the problem…
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Information Structure for Information Reuse
John Udell’s discussion of Apple’s Knowledge Navigator is a wonderful overview of a Personal Information Cloud. If the tools was more mobile or was shown synching with a similar mobile device to have the “knowledge” with the user at all time it is would be a perfect representation. Information in a Personal Information Cloud is…
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Welcome to the Personal Info Cloud
Welcome to the Personal Information Cloud. In the digital realm we have various pockets of information all tied to clouds. The most commonly understood cloud is the Global Information Cloud, i.e. the Internet. There is a plethora of information in this Info Cloud, but often there is too much information and the users are flooded…