I added about a half dozen pages to the site today. Check it out if you’re interested. For my next update, I think next I’ll try to get more detailed, and include specific examples.
Software that works with you
I added about a half dozen pages to the site today. Check it out if you’re interested. For my next update, I think next I’ll try to get more detailed, and include specific examples.
Computers are great tools which haven’t been fully exploited yet. So far software generally provides tools to enable you to tell the computer what you want, and the computer gives it to you. Word or Excel etc are gen purp apps that give you tools. SimplyAccounting and SolidWorks are more vertical market [...]
There are several sites out there that help you to know what things are popular, starting with Google (PageRank is based on how many sites link to a page), and then Stumble, del.icio.us, and Digg. But to date I haven’t seen any site that really lets people compare things side by side.
What I’m [...]
Lifehacks featured a thought that forms an interesting counterpoint to my last post. Try the link
I’m in the middle of reading this fascinating book, Wikinomics. It raises a lot of ideas about the phenomenon of mass collaboration, which of course gives me lots to discuss. As a demonstration of their concept, the authors created a wiki on their site and invited readers to create an extra chapter to the [...]
In 2005 at the University of Washington, Barbara Grosz of Harvard hosted acolloquium on collaborative systems, where she talked about her research on getting computers to interact nicely with people.
As one example, she shows a program which works with a word processor to automatically lookup journal references when the operator types hints that a [...]
Computers nowadays are considered an indispensable tool for getting work done, but few people think of computers as a collaborator in their job. This is largely because most software isn’t designed to fill this role. Programs are written to be generic, used for any purpose which fits their form. Thus we have [...]
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