Some infomation that apparently came out of the MSFT research may show up at ACM/SIGCHI...
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Information from Microsoft on some work their Virtual World's Group has been doing on Chat Interfaces. Not a great depth of information, but a pointer to some interesting stuff happening.
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A profile of Donald Norman, Jakob Nielsen's less well publicised half, runs in todays NYT. Authentication required to view doc, of course.
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Forbes is doing a four day roundup on incubator stocks - Idealab, Divine, ICG and CMGI. Not too rosy a picture,of course....
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From First Monday, The Unnoticed Presidential Transition: Whither Whitehouse.gov? provides a fairly nice overview of an underlooked element of our transition from a saxophone playing president to a Ricky Martin dancing president.
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Simson Garfinkel takes keypad in why he Hates Java. Agree or disagree, it's a decent read.
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Among the odd things one runs across in a day, sometimes there are things like "What Is 'IT'?"
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A nifty article in Software Developer nafazube regarding the methodologies of decision making. While I'm skeptical about systematic decision processes, there are some helpful bits here - including a thumbnail codification of where any party sits in a concensus line.
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