Category: Information Architecture

Understanding Taxonomy and Folksonmy Together

Jul 13, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Information Architecture, Social Software

I deeply appreciate Joshua Porter's link to from his Taxonomies and Tags blog post. This is a discussion I have quite regularly as to the relation and it is in my presentations and workshops and much of my tagging (and social web) training, consulting, and advising focusses on getting smart on understanding the value and…
Stitching Conversation Threads Fractured Across Channels

Jun 16, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Community, Information Architecture, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, Portability, Privacy, Social Software, Technology, Ubiquitous Computing

Communicating is simple. Well it is simple at its core of one person talking with another person face-to-face. When we communicate and add technology into the mix (phone, video-chat, text message, etc.) it becomes more difficult. Technology becomes noise in the pure flow of communication. Now With More Complexity But, what we have today is…
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…
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…
Information Structure for Information Reuse

Oct 25, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Accessibility, Coding, Devices, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Portability, Research, Standards, Technology, User Experience

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…
RSS on PDAs and Information Reuse

Oct 19, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Content Mangement, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Mobile, Portability, Standards, Syndication, Technology, Web

Three times the past week I have run across folks mentioning Hand/RSS for Palm. This seems to fill the hole that AvantGo does not completely fill. Many of the information resources I find to be helpful/insightful have RSS feeds, but do not have a “mobile” version (more importantly the content is not made with standard…
Welcome to the Personal Info Cloud

Oct 18, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Content Mangement, Information Architecture, Information Creation, Mobile, Portability, Weblogs

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…

Category: Information Architecture

Understanding Taxonomy and Folksonmy Together

Stitching Conversation Threads Fractured Across Channels

Focus of Startups

Recent Speaking Engagements

Information Structure for Information Reuse

RSS on PDAs and Information Reuse

Welcome to the Personal Info Cloud