March 10, 2003
Clay Shirky: Social Software and the Politics of Groups.
Our centuries of experience with printing presses and telegraphs have not prepared us for the design problems we face here. We have had real social software for less than forty years (dated from the Plato system), with less than a decade of general availability.
NY Times: AOL Is Planning a Fast-Forward Answer to TiVo.
The company's system, called Mystro TV, is AOL Time Warner's gambit in an imminent battle over the future of the television business. Satellite services, cable systems and television manufacturers are all racing to promote their versions of the TiVo-like technologies...
Good Experience: Google and Branding.
Google has done none of these things. Instead, it has focused on the EXPERIENCE. The user experience, customer experience, searcher experience, whatever you want to call it - Google knows that online, the brand is the EXPERIENCE.
Useit.Com: PR on Websites: Increasing Usability.
A company's website must clearly be a key component in any modern PR strategy. Luckily, many companies seem to be recognizing this, and corporate PR areas have improved significantly during the two years since our previous study.
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