December 2008
6 posts
Leaderboards and measurement
Randy Farmer and Bryce Glass have a book coming out called Building Web 2.0 Reputation Systems. O’Reilly is generously letting them blog sections from the book.
Their recent post Leaderboards Considered Harmful has some interesting things to say on the oft-seen web 2.0 “pattern” of leaderboards — quantitative displays of something that is related to the activity that the...
You can't research the future -- or can you?
At OZCHI today, people report that Fiona Ingram said in her keynote that you “can’t research the future”.
Viveka noted William Gibson’s quip that “the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed”.
The thing about what Gibson said is that it means that you can research the future, you just need to go to where it is.
For example, if you want to...
Fake it till you make it
A while ago I spoke with a guy who had a business building and selling speech-recognition based telephony systems — the sort of thing that your bank might have when you ring up and you ask for your “account balance” or tell it you want to “transfer money”.
He told me that his company put their own product in place on their switchboard so that when you rang up and...
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“If we start out with a theory of users that assumes mass idiocy, the likely...”
– Liam Bannon quoting Edwin Hutchins, p26 of User Centred System Design Norman and Draper ed, 1986.
Elements of an EmotionML 1.0 →
cartographer:
<emotion> <category set="basicEmotions" name="Disgust"/> <intensity value="0.82"/> </emotion>
An XML scheme for marking up emotions? Seriously?
Until recently I would have had the same reaction.
Then I installed this software in our research lab at work. The system can attemtps to classify people’s faces, cross-culturally, on the...