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Rodrigo Madanes: Amazing Vannevar Bush
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Personal blog on Product Strategy and User Experience. Laquo; books i liked in 2006. Let's start blogging again. ». I just wanted to write about Vannevar Bush. President of Harvard who modernized that institution from being a finishing school for the wealthy to a meritocracy for leaders, introducing achievements tests for entry and other things like it. Some of Bush's graduate students included Claude Shannon. One of the founders of information theory, and Frederick Terman. To the presidency as this was ...
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Rodrigo Madanes: how is our web universe growing?
http://www.prodstrategy.com/blog/2006/05/how_is_our_web_.html
Personal blog on Product Strategy and User Experience. It's about network effects ». How is our web universe growing? So i was thinking. How is our web universe growing? And for how long will this continue? Yet the web flourished substantially after 1999, and it appears that the web universe is vast. So people search to find this stuff. And in a universe which is growing, the tools to find stuff are valuable. Hence the big competition we have today in search. The comments to this entry are closed.
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Rodrigo Madanes: disruption
http://www.prodstrategy.com/blog/2006/04/disruption.html
Personal blog on Product Strategy and User Experience. Laquo; It's about activities! How is our web universe growing? Haven't written in a while. So figured I'd put a thinking piece to spur a dialogue. Why is it so hard to predict disruption? So who would have said that search was going to be so important? In fact, who would have said in the early 80's that OS's were going to be so important. I'm sure IBM didn't, or they would have tried to keep it. Are we not noticing something as broken today? But when...
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Rodrigo Madanes: books i liked in 2006
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Personal blog on Product Strategy and User Experience. Laquo; company one-liners: google, apple, myspace. Amazing Vannevar Bush ». Books i liked in 2006. The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. A classic of disruption). A new classic about user-generated-content and catalogs and choice). Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life. The Paradox of Choice. The Soul of a New Machine. A wonderful story of ...
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Rodrigo Madanes: Text ads are like lo-fi music
http://www.prodstrategy.com/blog/2008/08/text-ads-are-like-lo-fi-music.html
Personal blog on Product Strategy and User Experience. Laquo; Compilation of tidbits. Text ads are like lo-fi music. Why do text ads cpc work so well? Well, lets rewind a little. They work better than the old banner ads that people used to see and the popups that led to popup blockers, etc. So these unobtrusive text ads at least are not like the used car sales guy you want to stop pestering you, and is more like the courteous informative salesrep who can help you out at times. Let's start blogging again.
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Rodrigo Madanes: It's about activities!
http://www.prodstrategy.com/blog/2006/03/its_about_activ.html
Personal blog on Product Strategy and User Experience. Laquo; Videos of early personal computers like Sketchpad (1961), Engelbart's NLS (1968), and Xerox Star (1981). So you might have heard of activity-centered design. Or you might have not (see also this book. What ends up happening is that you then design products that are closely aligned to a type of activity people engage in. The artifact might:. So what are the origins of activity centered design? I have a hint that some of my classmates at Berkele...
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Rodrigo Madanes: the web in 7 years, two orders of magnitude bigger
http://www.prodstrategy.com/blog/2008/03/the-web-in-7-ye.html
Personal blog on Product Strategy and User Experience. Laquo; Let's start blogging again. Just turned 40, on April 1st! The web in 7 years, two orders of magnitude bigger. If you look at google and search, we forget the past and the problem its trying to solve. Fundamentally, search is a solution for finding relevant content in a web universe of size X. Google thrives because the size of the web grew 2 orders of magnitude. Will keyword navigation be the best way to find content still? The web in 7 years,...
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VL/HCC 2011: Organizers
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Middot; Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Middot; University of Salerno, Italy. Middot; University of Washington, USA. Workshops, Tutorials, and Posters Chairs. Middot; IBM, USA. Middot; IBM, USA. Middot; Oregon State University, USA. Middot; Google, USA. Middot; Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Robin Abraham · Microsoft, USA. Robert Biddle · Carleton University, Canada. Paolo Bottoni · Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Margaret Burnett · Oregon State University, USA. Mark Minas · Univers...
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Rodrigo Madanes: Videos of early personal computers like Sketchpad (1961), Engelbart's NLS (1968), and Xerox Star (1981)
http://www.prodstrategy.com/blog/2006/02/videos_of_early.html
Personal blog on Product Strategy and User Experience. Laquo; Don't focus on faster horses. Videos of early personal computers like Sketchpad (1961), Engelbart's NLS (1968), and Xerox Star (1981). The following images come from guidebookgallery.org. I like his snippet of a word processor. And his idealistic notion of a workstation that would be at your disposal all day. Finally, and most funly (yes, that is a word for me), I have some videos of the Xerox Star. 18 August 2009 at 12:35 AM. Engelbarts visio...