Category: User Experience

Remote Presentation and Perception Matrix for Social Tools

Feb 21, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Community, Conferences, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Knowledge Management, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Refindability, Social Software, Technology, User Experience

Today I did something I had never done before (actually a few things) I sat in my office in my home and gave a live web video presentation to a conference elsewhere on the globe. I presented my nearly all new presentation, Keeping Up With Social Tagging to the Expert Workshop in: Social Tagging and…
Challenges as Opportunities for Social Networks and Services

Feb 11, 2008

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Enterprise, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Personal Info, Social Software, User Experience, Web

Jeremiah Owyang posts "The Many Challenges of Social Network Sites" that lays out many of the complaints that have risen around social networking sites (and other social computing services). He has a good list of complaints, which all sounded incredibly familiar from the glory days of 1990 to 1992 for IT in the enterprise (tongue…
The State of Enterprise Social Software

Oct 17, 2007

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Applications, Community, Enterprise, Folksonomy, Local InfoCloud, Personal InfoCloud, Privacy, Social Software, User Experience

Last Friday the Read/Write Web post on "Big Vendors Scrap for Enterprise 2.0 Supremacy" post really was bothersome for me. The list of big players and their products in the post seemed to show the sorry state of offerings by the big companies more than it shows they understand the vast improvements that have been…
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…
The Come To Me Web

Jan 19, 2006

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Attraction, Calendar, Complexity Lenses, Devices, Model of Attraction, Personal Info, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Portability, Social Lenses, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

Until May of 2005 I had trouble with one element in my work around the Model of Attraction and Personal InfoCloud (including the Local and Global InfoClouds as well) to build a framework for cross-platform design and development of information and media systems and services. This problem was lack of an easy of explaination of…
Location? Location? Where am I?

Oct 26, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Identity, Local InfoCloud, Location, Mobile, Personal InfoCloud, PKM, Social Software, Travel, Ubiquitous Computing, User Experience

I have been traveling more than usual this year to places in the United States and Europe. Some I have been to before and others I have not. Many of the trips are to places for only a few days and are set around meetings, conferences, or speaking engagements. I am often making plans at…
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…
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…