Category: Standards

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…
The Future is Now for Information Access

May 23, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Coding, Content Mangement, Devices, Information Creation, Local InfoCloud, Marketplace, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Portability, Standards, Syndication, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

An interview with Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer in the in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding Steve’s thoughts about the future of technology, information, and Microsoft (including their competition) sparked a few things regarding the Personal InfoCloud and Local InfoCloud. It could be the people I hang out with and the stay-at-home parents I run across during…
Mash-ups and the Model of Attraction

Sep 25, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Attraction Receptor, Community, Interface, Local InfoCloud, Model of Attraction, Personal InfoCloud, Standards, Technology

I have been thinking a lot about web2.0 mash-ups like Housing Maps since I was on a panel with Paul Rademacher. Particularly I have been trying to make sense of mash-ups in the context of the Model of Attraction. It was not difficult to use these models as a lens to better understand what is…
WebVisions Designing for the Personal InfoCloud Presentation

Jul 16, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Conferences, Mobile, Personal Info, Portability, Standards, Syndication, Ubiquitous Computing, Web

The presentation at
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…
Upcoming.org and Others Understand Ease of Information Reuse

Mar 21, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Personal Info, Standards, User Experience

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…
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…