Category: Connectivity

Shift Happened – Part 2: Small Apps Loosely Joined

Apr 8, 2014

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Design, Devices, Enterprise, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Knowledge Management, Mobile, Model of Attraction, Portability, Shift Happened, Standards, Technology, Tools, User Experience, Web

What are Small Apps Loosely Joined? There has been a large shift in how many people work today and part of that is in the tools that they use to get work done. This shift in work patterns mirrors the shift that many had in their personal lives around social interactions and productivity. Late one…
Closing Delicious? Lessons to be Learned

Dec 30, 2010

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Refindability, Social Software, Standards, Web/Tech

There was a kerfuffle a couple weeks back around Delicious when the social bookmarking service Delicious was marked for end of life by Yahoo, which caused a rather large number I know to go rather nuts. Yahoo, has made the claim that they are not shutting the service down, which only seems like a stall…
Getting Info into the Field with Extension

May 2, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Accessibility, Community, Connectivity, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Interface, Knowledge Management, Model of Attraction, Portability, Reference, Syndication, Technology, Tools, Web

This week I was down in Raleigh, North Carolina to speak at National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) 2008, which is for the people running the web and technology components for what used to be the agricultural extension of state universities, but now includes much more. This was a great conference to connect with people trying…
Exposing the Local InfoCloud

May 27, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Community, Connectivity, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Technology

I have spent a lot of time and effort focussing on the Personal InfoCloud, but the past year or two I have been seeing that the interaction between the person and their information resources that are closest to them (the Local InfoCloud) is extremely important. I have gone around the Local InfoCloud looking at ways…
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…
A Look at iPIM and Chandler

Nov 1, 2003

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by

Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Connectivity, Content Mangement, Information Creation, Mobile, Portability, Technology, User Experience

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…

Category: Connectivity

Shift Happened – Part 2: Small Apps Loosely Joined

Closing Delicious? Lessons to be Learned

Getting Info into the Field with Extension

Exposing the Local InfoCloud

Two Sides of the Local InfoCloud

A Look at iPIM and Chandler