Ambient findability

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

Ambient Findability 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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Easier job searches

Posted on July 11th, 2006 by kooshblog.
Categories: Job, usability.

It is such a good feeling when a project goes live, and you can really understand the use case and be excited to spread the word. I just worked with the great team at Dice.com to extend their search functions, and add faceted navigation. The new functionality is now available as a beta to all registered users.
Some interesting things that you can do now are to search for .NET, C#, C++ and not have your results skewed because you have special chararcters in your search. You can now also narrow your results based on skills, location, area code, travel, employment type, etc, and also undo any parts of your refinement history at anytime.

Check it out Here!

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2.0

Posted on March 14th, 2006 by kooshblog.
Categories: blog, usability, wordpress.

I have decided to upgrade to Wordpress 2.0. Why? There are great themes, I can edit the source on my own hard drive, focus on usabilty, great community of developers and plug-ins. Need I say more?

At this point in time, I am not sure I am going to move all of the old post over (well, maybe the Red Sox championship one :)

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