August 2006

links for 2006-08-31 (Aug 31, 2006)
House Gymnastics Currently working on the one-handed starfish. (tags: climbing funny health) Bob Sutton: Crappy People versus Crappy Systems "The worst part about focusing on keeping out crappy people, however, is that it reflects a belief system that 'the...

The Entertaible (Aug 30, 2006)
I should start a category here called "I totally thought of that!" The Entertaible, Philips new social gameboard, would be the first entry. From the product description: Entertaible comprises a 32-inch horizontal LCD, sophisticated touch screen-based multi-object position detection,...

links for 2006-08-29 (Aug 29, 2006)
Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matter Old but interesting paper about the politics of search. (tags: search economics politics) Googlearchy: how a few heavily-linked sites dominate politics on the web (PDF) "Claims about theWeb and...

Earlier Posts

On going geothermal (Aug 28, 2006)

links for 2006-08-26 (Aug 26, 2006)

Galactica, Season One (Aug 24, 2006)

Idea 2006, October 23 to 24 (Aug 23, 2006)

links for 2006-08-23 (Aug 23, 2006)

links for 2006-08-22 (Aug 22, 2006)

Start with a hypothesis, and other good design advice (Aug 21, 2006)

links for 2006-08-19 (Aug 19, 2006)

The genius of Digg (Aug 18, 2006)

links for 2006-08-18 (Aug 18, 2006)

CanUX 2006, September 14 to 16 (Aug 17, 2006)

links for 2006-08-17 (Aug 17, 2006)

links for 2006-08-16 (Aug 16, 2006)

links for 2006-08-13 (Aug 13, 2006)

Web 2.0 tops the Gartner hype cycle (Aug 10, 2006)

links for 2006-08-10 (Aug 10, 2006)

links for 2006-08-09 (Aug 9, 2006)

Oztralian IA Summit (Aug 8, 2006)

links for 2006-08-08 (Aug 8, 2006)

Twirlin' whirlies (Aug 7, 2006)

Off the grid (Aug 7, 2006)

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These are all 24 posts for August 2006. Before this was July 2006. And after came September 2006.

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Gene Smith is a principal with nForm, one of Canada's leading user experience consulting firms. He writes about information architecture, interaction design, community, the web and other such topics. More >

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