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Plain English Videos From Common Craft Make Understanding New Technology Easy

Sunday, August 31, 2008

I can’t say enough good things about The Common Craft Show and their excellent video series designed to help regular, ordinary humans understand technological topics. Take a few minutes and view a few of the most popular selections below. Then, share them with ...

Filed under: Technological Innovation : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0

The Architecture of Participation: What Do You Think? Where Does Participation Fit?

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

I’m re-reading a great book, The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman. The book, now in it’s third release in so many years, explores how the Internet, the World Wide Web, XML, and related technologies have made the world a much smaller place...a place in which knowledge ...

Filed under: Experience Design : Technological Innovation : User-Generated Content : Web 2.0

iPaper: Simply The Best Document Viewing Experience On The Web

Monday, February 25, 2008

It’s been called “the best document viewing experience on the web” and so far, it is...by a long shot. It’s iPaper, a new web display mechanism from Scribd for documents that was not, despite the “i” prefix, created by Apple. Like a YouTube video, iPaper documents are ...

Filed under: Document Engineering : Publishing : Technological Innovation : Web 2.0

Sandy: She’s Smart. She’s Considerate. She’s The Best Assistant You’ll Never Meet In Person

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

If you’re like most people, you seldom accomplish all the tasks you’d like to. Often, it’s not because you lacked the time, money, or desire. It’s more likely that you just got busy doing other things, and forgot about the unfinished items on your list. That’s why you ...

Filed under: Technological Innovation : Web 2.0

Finding The Lowest Price: Cheap Uncle Mashes Up Savings

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

If you have a coupon clipper or rebate hound in your family—someone who seeks out the lowest possible price on any goods they purchase—you’ll want to know about Cheap Uncle, a new online service designed by Chicago-based Duo Consulting that helps consumers find the ...

Filed under: Mashups : Service Design : Web 2.0 : Examples

Documentation and Training Slide Decks Now Available

Thursday, November 08, 2007

The slide decks from Documentation and Training East 2007 are now available. A few speakers have yet to share their slides, but the bulk of the presentations are available for view within a web browser, and without the need to download additional software. This service ...

Filed under: 3D : Content Quality Management : Content Reuse : DITA : Document Engineering : Dynamic Content : Experience Design : Information Architecture : Localization : Mobile Content : Presentations : Publishing : Rich Media : S1000D : Search : Simplified Technical English : Software as a Service : Technical Writing : Translation : Usability : User-Generated Content : Video Documentation : Web 2.0 : XML : XQuery : Web Content Management

[Web 2.0] SeeqPod Introduces “Playable Search”

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Ever wish you could search the web for a special song or video and actually find and listen to/view it within seconds? Thanks to the folks at SeeqPod, now you can. The team at SeeqPod is passionate about technology as well as music. So they decided to apply some pretty ...

Filed under: Music : Web 2.0 : Examples

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