Kathy Sierra’s got a great post applying the Web 2.0 jargon to a management approach in the vein of Tom Peters and his spiritual colleagues. Creating Passionate Users: Manager 2.0 One of the best companies I’ve worked with does their best to take a “2.0″ approach to running the business. In 2000, the principals took [...]
Jensen Harris has a fine post on her MS Office user interface blog about steps they’re taking on the new version of Office to keep the interface consistent on day 101 to what it looked like on day 1. (So after months of using Word you don’t have twelve floating toolbars in your face that [...]
Thanks go to José Zagal for pointing this out: a visualization of common approaches to the first level of Konami’s Gradius. The New Gamer‘s R. LeFeuvre overlaid a series of Gradius playthroughs to provide an idea of the average paths players used in proceeding through the level. If you’re familiar with Gradius, you’ll find some [...]
In my regular blog rounds, I tend to keep an eye on Jorge Arango’s jarango blog. Part of it’s a common interest in IA, but a large part of it’s been to see how another IA bilingue handles the issue of blogging in multiple languages. Until recently, jarango had separate English and Spanish language sections, [...]