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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 [...]

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 [...]

Push, schmush ...

It seems a fore­gone conc­lu­sion that RSS mar­ke­ting is poi­sed to take off. I remain a bit skep­ti­cal about the uptake rate of Joe User to a brand new “not brow­sing, not email” medium. Nonethe­less, I believe it’s ine­vi­ta­ble. Some fun approaches are sur­fa­cing, but perhaps more impor­tant are the more mun­dane appli­ca­tions that will intro­duce feeds to new [...]

Billiken hauntings ...

I’ve spent most of my aca­de­mic life surroun­ded by Billi­kens, at Uni­ver­sity and high school. It’s easy to con­si­der the fellow a Saint Louis phe­no­me­non, but then he pops up in under­ground Seattle. Researching a new digi­tal camera, I was quite sur­pri­sed to find him (even labe­led) the cen­ter­piece of a demons­tra­tion pic­ture in Japan. Wiki­pe­dia is kind [...]
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