We’ve launched a service for letting people share, in real time, what pages they’re looking at on the web. Our system, eyebrowse, lets the person choose exactly what sites they want to share their viewing patterns about, and eyebrowse does the rest — producing statistical visualisations of your web browsing habits over time, compared to [...]
Michael and I are working on a project that we will release to the public soon. First, we want to make sure it does what we think it will, so we’re running a user study.
We’re looking for Google Reader users to try out a new extension that helps you share interesting items with people you [...]
Microformats and RDFa provide a way to interweave semantic markup within a web document so that structured information can be more easily extracted. Both Microformats and RDFa follow the hierarchical model of HTML: structured data to be extracted may exist spread across several layers of the DOM
hierarchy. A pseudocode example of this is below, where we see that [...]
Wednesday morning Katrina, Michael, Greg and I presented our paper, “Note to Self: Examining Personal Information Keeping in a Lightweight Note-Taking Tool”, to a packed room at noon in the “Personal and Public Information” track at CHI2009 . This paper describes our first study that we conducted with our List.it note taking tool in September [...]
Haystack alum Robin Stewart won Best Note at CHI with a short paper based on his recent masters thesis, “Graph Sketcher: extending illustration to quantitative graphs.” What’s more, his software got bought out by the Omni Group — yes, those OmniGraffle guys — and is being reborn as OmniGraphSketcher! Congrats Robin!
If you can say the [...]
Last summer, a few other Microsoft Interns and I kicked around the idea of making a Mystery Science Theater 3000 parody video for the new CHI video showcase event. Then we watched a lot — a LOT — of old CHI videos. I’m pretty sure that most people never expected that these would be seen [...]
list.it v0.4.0
The list.it team is proud to announce the release of list.it version 0.4.0. We’ve been working hard on it and we’re ready to release it to you!
Most of these features were strongly influenced from feedback from our users. If you have any feedback of your own (feature suggestions, bug reports, questions, comments) please contact [...]
We just completed the first phase of moving list.it to being its own independent open source project by moving the codebase to a project called “list-it” on Google Code. The entire team has switched over to using this repository for our main development, and so you will see our changes as they happen. (We have [...]
We are very happy that our paper on a study of our note-taking tool, list.it, which we conducted in September 2008 has received a nomination for best note at CHI 2009!
My co-investigators Michael Bernstein, Greg Vargas and Katrina Panovich and advisors David Karger and mc schraefel and I are very pleased at this nomination, and [...]
Lifehacker featured listit on its front page today. Thanks, Lifehacker! The list.it team have been avid lifehacker readers for a very long time! (We also now have 1700+ registered users!)
Speaking of the list.it team, we wanted to acknowledge the rest of the team for their hard work over the past four months; in [...]