February 2010
5 posts
Stealthy Knowmore Loads Up On Talent To Silence... →
Really excited to start showing knowmore to the world. Human-centric design works — it’s not about a tech breakthrough in search of a problem — it’s using tech to solve real needs and pain points.
I love Julian’s take on this — “Do you think that Dean Kamen set out to make a transportation for mall cops?”
The Segway is the great example of a...
The Birth of the Virtual Assistant →
Siri’s launch is close at hand…
In the near future, anyone who lives a connected lifestyle will be able to delegate their everyday tasks to intelligent virtual assistants that will coordinate, execute and simplify users’ lives.
We will look back on these days and ask ourselves how we ever got by without our trusted assistants, the same way my kids ask in amazement about how we ever...
How Conceptual Metaphors are Stunting Web...
From a guest post last week by Venkatesh Rao:
Consider these terms: page, scroll, file, folder, trash can, bookmark, inbox, email, desktop, library, archive and index. They are all part of the document metaphor, a superset of the “desktop” metaphor. Some elements, such as scroll, desktop and library pre-date the printing press, but all are based on some sort of “marks on paper-like material”...
