Category: Web

Social Machines

Jul 5, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Community, Devices, Mobile, Portability, Social Software, Ubiquitous Computing, Web

Those of you that follow this site will also likely enjoy Wade Roush’s continuousblog. Wade is the West Coast editor for the MIT Technology Review magazine. He has the August cover story in the TechReview titled, “Social Machines” and has posted Social Machines on his site as of today. Please be sure to pick up…
Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies

Feb 21, 2005

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Folksonomy, Information Creation, Social Software, Web

I have been explaining the broad and narrow folksonomy in e-mail and in comments on others sites, as well as in the media (Wired News). There has still been some confusion, which is very understandable as it is a different concept that goes beyond a simple understanding of tagging. I have put together a couple…
Keeping Found Things Found

Jan 23, 2004

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Applications, Devices, Personal Info, Research, Web

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…
Building a Web Based E-Notebook

Dec 28, 2003

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Thomas Vander Wal

in Access to Info, Reference, Research, Web

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…
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…

Category: Web

Social Machines

Explaining and Showing Broad and Narrow Folksonomies

Keeping Found Things Found

Building a Web Based E-Notebook

RSS on PDAs and Information Reuse