Author: fioritto

Lurkers within

This is me – I’m a Lurker – hang out, I scan, I soak things up and then push ideas. My weblog has always been a place of reference for my thinking more than a place of commentary. Lurking – Ton on Lurking and Weak Ties and their value in networks. Ton has a superb article on the value of…

[etech] Don Norman keynote

  Don‘s new book is Emotional Design. He uses lots of photos, so the following minimalist representation will not have the, um, emotional impact of his talk. People have emotional reactions to, and relationships with, products. Positive examples: A tiny Sony camera and Mini Cooper. We have two information processes: Cognition (understanding the world) and emotion (judges the world). There…

Flickr (Ross Mayfield)

  Best social software beta launched at ETech has got to be Flickr. Put out into the world by Many-to-Many guestblogger Stewart Butterfield. Like all great social networking services, you can add your profile and photo, add your friends, click on… [Many-to-Many]

The Future of Business

  Dave Pollard, author of the How to Save the World Weblog, offers a fascinating vision of the world of a typical knowledge worker in the year 2015, including the technology tools that will enable a seamless world of knowledge capture, sharing and collaboration. [Innovation Weblog]