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Police 2.0 ...

It has been fashio­na­ble in our cul­ture to address unde­si­ra­ble beha­vior by enac­ting laws that call for the police to make the bad peo­ple that stop doing those bad things by arres­ting them. For the really, really bad things, like pos­ses­sing a leaf from a plant which makes you happy if you con­sume it, we even [...]

iToldYouSo ...

Apple has pre-​​announced their TV-​​integration pro­duct, ten­ta­ti­vely named iTV. This is exactly what I’ve pre­dic­ted the long-​​rumored “Aste­roid” pro­duct to be. Since Apple embra­ced video on the iPod it’s been a sim­ple conc­lu­sion that Air­port Express and Front Row would end up in a tar­ge­ted device. Lately I won­de­red if they were going to simply pro­duce a Mac [...]

Going plazes ...

Pla­zes has pro­mo­ted their new ver­sion, essen­tially going from 1.0beta to 2.0beta. It’s very “Web 2.0″ in design (except the cor­ners are sharp) and it doesn’t look like anything has chan­ged from the pri­vate pre-​​beta test. The new inter­face is much easier to unders­tand, with sim­pli­fied user and place profiles.

Good UI sighting ...

Tech­no­rati has a won­der­ful solu­tion for shiel­ding users from acci­den­tal des­truc­tive action: offer an undo link along with the res­ponse mes­sage: This is much less dis­rup­tive than an “are you sure?” dia­log, which are often igno­red by con­fir­ma­tion fati­gued users. It may seem too subtle, but desig­ners are already tas­ked with tas­te­fully dra­wing atten­tion to res­ponse [...]

OpenID has it right ...

There has been much ado over the last year about iden­tity. Most of the early plays were cen­tra­li­zed thinly-​​veiled attempts to own your iden­tity. Even many of the 2.0 sys­tems depend on the sol­vency of a mana­ging orga­ni­za­tion. SAML is a big heavy beast as you might expect from a com­mit­tee. So, I was very exci­ted in [...]
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