Pieter Jansegers

prototype philosophy

prototype philosophy | signaled by mark schraad - IxDA - http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=31696

Great article on the business week site today about design…

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate /content /jul2008 /id20080728 _623527.htm?chan=innovation _innovation +%2B +design _top +stories

Near the end of the article Claudia Kotchka talks about prototype workshops…

“Participants get scared using such rough prototypes to elicit consumer feedback at the beginning, but they are won over when they see the benefits of co-creation, ” says Kotchka. “We have found that the more finished a prototype is, the less feedback people will give you. When you give prospective users something half-finished, they think you don’t know the answer. They know you need their help—and really open up.”

She probably should have given some credit to Bill Buxton regarding the notion of using form and polish to project openness and encourage input and exploration.

Mark

» Knol on microblogs

Google Knol has launched and I’ve made a contribution about microblogs as my first Knol I worked on.

» globocasting : informing the world by microblogs

“ Schrödinger and Heisenberg independently uncovered dual descriptions of particles and atoms. Later, the theories proved equivalent. Then in 1926 Heisenberg’s previous advisor, Max Born, discovered why no one had found a physical interpretation for Schrödinger’s wave function. They are not physical waves at all; rather the wave function includes all the possible states of a system. Before a measurement those states exist in superposition, wherein every possible outcome is described at the same time. Superposition is one of the defining qualities of quantum mechanics and implies that individual events cannot be predicted; only the probability of an experimental outcome can be derived.

— The Reality Tests [an article on the implications of quantum fysics] http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/06/the_reality_tests_1.php?page=3

“ How the Web is Changing Work

— http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/21/how-the-web-is-changing-work/

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10 reasons why my bicycle is better than trains.

1 - My bicycle don’t have “hours”, I can move when I want, never have to wait it come, it’s just here !

2 - My Bicycle is in house… don’t have to go so far to get one, it here in my garage !

3 - My bicycle has privacy… I don’t have to be with all this people I don’t even know !

4 - My bicycle is convenient, it can bring object, look at the basket you can put in front or the caddies you can attach in the back !!

5 - My bicycle is cheap… look at all the train ticket you paid… make the adition, your bike cost less than 3 month of train !

6 - My bicycle is friendly : I can take a friend with me if I want !

7 - My bicycle is customisable !! if you put a sticker on a train, you can be arrested !!

8 - My bicycle is popular : sooo many people over the planet use one !

9 - My Bicycle is easy to use : trains are so complicate…where I am, where I go, where have I to change ?? Bike is direct A to B !

10 - My bicycle is clean. It run with only my muscles, no gaz, no oil, not even nuclear electricity : it’s the cleanest way to move.

What ? to go in vacations ? euh…..

— Posted by: Jean-Sébastien Mansart | 24 April 2008 at 11:29 AM in reponse to 10 reasons why i think twitter is better than email - http://ouriel.typepad.com/myblog/2008/04/10-reasons-why.html

The best microblogs according to ten criteria

The listing of the better microblogs at http://microblogs.ning.com starts with this statement:

“This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.”

Nice, we all want this. But the question remains: what makes up a really good microblog ?

For me it are these ten requirements:

1* login with username
2* immediately ready for posting after login
3* 140 characters mininum
4* no title needed
5* standard sending to all people
6* no extra tagging needed
7* respecting commas in urls
8* shortening urls
9* directly ready for reposting
10* presenting your previous postings

This list of requirements is ofcourse strictly personal, but I wanted to be able to discuss about quality so I had to substantiate what I see to be necessary for quality.

These seven microblogs meet all these criteria:

http://twitter.com
http://smspr.ru
http://zuosa.com

http://gozub.com
http://blip.pl
http://feecle.jp

http://beemood.com

Do you know of any other microblog meeting these criteria, let me know it right away !

Pieter Jansegers

http://webosophy.ning.com

Microblogs are the world's first instant global mass media.

Microblogs are here to stay and the most important thing about microblogs is their immediate feedback information loop capabilities.

Some microblogs worldwide

This list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced functional up-time.

general
http://twitter.com
http://jaiku.com
http://pownce.com
http://yelago.com
http://beemood.com
http://yonkly.com

Chinese
http://fanfou.com
http://zuosa.com
http://komoo.cn

Indian
http://snockles.com

Singaporean
http://tiish.com

Italian
http://meemi.com

Spanish
http://khaces.com
http://fritsi.com

Turkish
http://nolyo.com

French
http://noumba.net
http://tapioka.ca
http://frazr.com

Korean
http://playtalk.net
http://me2day.net

Japanese
http://feecle.jp
http://haru.fm

German
http://niimo.com
http://dukudu.de

Polish
http://blip.pl

Dutch
http://numpa.nl

Portuguese
http://gozub.com

Russian
http://smspr.ru

Arabic
http://watwet.com

Romanian
http://cirip.ro

Mexican
http://mexicodiario.com

special
http://tumblr.com
http://hictu.com
http://babl.nl
http://floort.com
http://help.com
http://justtell.us

multiple posting

http://hellotxt.com

The most exhaustive list I know about is the list made up by thw http://www.thws.cn/articles/twitter-clones.html

Pieter Jansegers

http://microblogs.ning.com

I wrote

also Microblogs are changing the world

and Why twitter is such a great success…

“ There are no bad products but the question is whether you sell them properly,” said an unnamed banker. “The question is not whether it is right to sell high-risk products, which is common overseas, but whether you sell a high-risk product to the right client. The problem is when a high-risk product is sold to investors with high vulnerability.

— Found in the blogarticle Watchdog pounces on high-risk sales - http://www.china.org.cn/business/2008-05/05/content_15063094.htm

Why twitter is such a great success...

Writing down thoughts and quotations has been practiced almost since the beginning of writing.

Proverbs of Ben Sira are finally very nice tweets.

I believe it’s Cicero who said: ‘Whatever is well said, no matter by whoever it’s said, I use it’.

Erasmus took notes because he argued that you don’t have time to read a book over again without loosing time to read new ones.

Blaise Pascal wrote his Pensées in tweets as well.

Rousseau pointed out he want to walk and took notes on new thoughts that arised from walking.

Dale Carnegie stimulates people to write down thoughts that can be used later on in his [Dale Carnegie’s Lifetime Plan for Success: The Great Bestselling Works Complete In One Volume]

Before blogs, microblogs, chronicles and even paper was available, people wrote already tweets on wall.

The popular Latin language is known due to this kind of inscriptions.

Isn’t Twitter just a modern form of textual graffiti ?

People want to leave their mark behind, knowing that “verba volant, scripta manent” (words fly away, but what’s written remains)

This is not really amazing because both hieroglyphs and runes were essentially used for religion, and if I’m not mistaken the predictions of the greek oracles where written down by priest.

Hebrew, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Arabic are considered sacred language because the sacred or holy words were written down in these languages.

Initiation in reading was getting initiated in the possibility of reading these scriptures.

But writing has of even more importance, because it meant to be able to leave thoughts to posterity or send them to people far away.

Twitter has the same attraction to people as trees do the lovers: it enables people to leave a trace of the things they’ve felt, observed, discovered, lived or promised for ever and for everyone to see and read.

“ Twitter has a powerful ability to move people to action, to deliver help where it’s needed, and more. If a messaging platform can free a man from prison, what else can it do for YOU?

— Chris Brogan, College Student Twitters Arrest in Egypt, http://www.chrisbrogan.com/college-student-twitters-arrest-in-egypt/

“ ‘As we each carve out our individual niche on the Web, the logic of search may well flip inside out. Since we are essentially meta-tagging ourselves through our social networking memberships, shopping habits and surfing addictions, it’s conceivable that the information could attempt to find us […]

— How Social Networks May Kill Search as We Know It - referring article on Slashdot.com http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/16/1833256

“ The reason superusers go rogue is usually frustration, says Marquis. “It’s a symptom of the IT organization being unable to meet or even understand the needs of its customers,” he says. “Otherwise, it wouldn’t be happening.

— Hank Marquis, director of ITSM, quoted in the Infoworld article Guerrilla IT: How to stop worrying and learn to love your superusers
by Dan Tynan http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/14/16FE-guerrilla-it_1.html

The truth according to Wikipedia

“ Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world’s richest country faces economic crisis

— USA: Sovjet like food stamps - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/usa-2008-the-great-depression-803095.html