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Ambient Findability chat

Posted on July 31st, 2006 by kooshblog.
Categories: Uncategorized, findability, web 2.0.

A  great chat here with Peter Moreville that discusses how much time employees waste searching for things, user centered design, Google, Endeca, and other interesting subjects.
Ambient Findability

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Family Pics

Posted on July 15th, 2006 by kooshblog.
Categories: Uncategorized.

A few people have asked me where I moved the links to see the faimly pics. I added it to the blogroll and linked below.

Gallery

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93South - Thoughts on New England Web2.0

Posted on July 15th, 2006 by kooshblog.
Categories: Job, Uncategorized, VC, blog, boston, social networking, start-up, tech, web 2.0.

93South - Thoughts on New England Web2.0

I just stumbled upon this site. A very nice look at VC funded web 2.0 companies in Boston.

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Ambient findability

Posted on July 12th, 2006 by kooshblog.
Categories: Uncategorized, findability, usability.

I just finished reading this book a few weeks ago, and alot of people have asked me about this since I have had put it on my desk. Written by Peter Morville, the author of the Oreiily Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites book, has alot of credibility in this field, and has heavily reesarched this book. Having Oreiily as a publisher doesn’t hurt either

This book reminds me of a really good instrumental jam, with a lot of biuld up and tension in the first 100 pages, and then a release with some follow on comments and examples. There is a lot of futuristic talk, which can be risky if you look back at it five years from now, but with the intensive research that the author has done, I doubt that will be the case. The book also has good pointers to some of the more recent information sites that have popped up recently, but may not be in the eye of the mainstream readers that were AI readers, such as del.icio and flickr. It would be interesting to hear Peter’s comments regardign the explosion of LinkedIn, Youtube, sendspace, etc.

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Tivo Desktop now has auto-sync

Posted on July 12th, 2006 by kooshblog.
Categories: DVR, Uncategorized, blog, colbert, tivo, video ipod.

Finally, a product feature that I have been waiting for for a long time. The new version of Tivo Desktop now allows you to auto-sync shows. this is great for your video Ipod or Creative Zen M, as you can set these programs to sync to your computer after recording, and then be converted to the proper format. One this this allows me to do now (well, I used to do it with etivo, but that had its own issues), is transfer and convert the Daily Show and Colbert Report and watch the next day on the treadmill.

The pic is better to view here

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