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 [...]
If you listen to Steve Yegge (and he is a smart guy to listen to), then sooner or later we’re all going to end up learning JavaScript. As far as back-end web developers are concerned, this possibility has recently become a little bit more real, with the release of server-side JavaScript hosting frameworks. Both Aptana’s [...]
Note to self: study more notes.
Over the past two years our group has built up a body of research about information scraps — those little bits of personal information you e-mail to yourself, jot down in post-it notes and notebooks, or keep in that miscellaneous.txt file. It’s been a wild journey, with a myriad of [...]
I’m composing the first of what I hope will be many posts describing information tasks that should be easy (ideally, point-and-click easy) but instead seem to be very hard (requiring programming). I post these in the hope of
finding out about tools that do make these tasks easy, or
fomenting thought about why these tasks are [...]
In 1981, Elaine Rich predicted in a paper called “Users are individuals” [1] that as digital information tools became increasingly capable, they would empower people to assume more tasks and responsibilities. This tendency would, in turn, drive a demand for better tools — tools that let people complete their tasks more easily, efficiently and [...]
I, along with the User Interface Design group, presented a paper at the ACM UIST conference this week. Check it out!
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/inky/uist08-inky.pdf
http://uid.csail.mit.edu/projects/inky/inky-video.mp4
We’ve launched our own blog, where we’ll be posting news items, interesting links, project milestones, and much more. (Assuming David can pressure us to write often enough.)