Partial Recall

Links for 2009-01-12

• CSSiPhone – Screens for all your iPhone needs. This site displays sites that render beautifully on the iPhone.
• Interaction Design Association on Vimeo – Video from IXDA meetings in NYC.
• Google Quick Search Box for Mac [Google Code] - Google Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web. This app is very experimental, but through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are exploring: contextual search, actions, and extensibility. It is by no means feature-complete, but is a very good indication of things to come.
• Layers: Web Annotation done right [TheNextWeb.com - Jan 04, 2009] – Imagine if you could pull a transparent layer over any webpage and then you could create upon it. You could annotate, draw graffiti, embed video, photos or do whatever you want. Then, by providing a link, others could see your layer (with the original content beneath it) and you could see layers created by other people. You could follow your friends and see all the layers they create. You could go to any webpage and see any of the layers that have been created over that site.
• Web Annotation And Markup – Tools And Services: A Mini-Guide [Robin Good's Latest News - Jun 01, 2007] – Web annotation tools and services make it easy for you to add notes, highlights and visual diagrams on the web pages that you visit, just as you might do with pencil or pens on a real book or journal article.
• SharedCopy – Seamless and simple collaboration service, requiring no downloads or installations whatsoever.
• This Kid’s a Text Maniac [New York Post - Jan 11, 2009] - The average number of monthly texts for a 13- to 17-year-old teen is 1,742, according to a Nielsen study of cellphone usage.
• Diigo – Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Social Bookmarking and Annotation, Social Information Network! – How helpful is it to bookmark a Web site if you need only one sentence from that 3,000-word article? Diigo is a free bookmarking service that lets you do what we wish Yahoo’s Del.icio.us would: highlight text and comment on Web pages. Diigo caches each site so that you can search within text, not just the topic tags. And you won’t have to leave the Del.icio.us community, since Diigo lets you save bookmarks simultaneously in both places.
• 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design [Mashable.com - Jan 09, 2009] - I asked some of the most influential and widely respected practitioners in UX what they consider to be the biggest misperceptions of what we do. The result is a top 10 list to debunk the myths. Read it, learn it, live it.
• 27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools [Crazeegeekchick.com - Nov 26, 2008] – I’ve put together a great list of 27 free web based tools that will help you and your teammates do nearly all the things you need to do to work together from different locations. There are virtual workspaces, customer service applications, project management tools, mindmapping and even online conferencing tools – all FREE!
• Personal Learning Environments: What They Are And How To Implement Them [Robin Good's Latest News - Jun 15, 2007] – The academic paper I am introducing today has been written by Ron Lubensky, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Sydney who is focusing on new learning systems. The article attempts to provide an in-depth definition of a “personal learning environment” as well as speculating personal learning environments possible developments and likely future.
• 12 CIOs who Twitter [Network World - Jan 08, 2009] – Here’s a quick rundown — in no particular order — of a handful of CIOs and IT VPs we uncovered who Twitter regularly. Those most active seem to be in the healthcare, government and education fields.