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Jon Udell & Bill Buxton

Published September 23, 2007 by cgerrish

I’m trying to figure out a good way to point to MP3s that I’ve found interesting. I’d like for the reader to be able to play them in the page, just like they can play video from YouTube and other providers. Delicious has a little flash widget that seems to work well on their site.

Jon Udell talks with Bill Buxton about Design Thinking, and in particular the role and economics of the sketch.

I’ll have to keep working on this. The Delicious flash widget runs the playback too fast. Jon and Bill sound like they’ve been breathing helium. The link goes directly to the MP3.

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Common Craft: What is RSS?

Published September 23, 2007 by cgerrish

Common Craft does an excellent job of explaining stuff. Or at least I think they do. My problem is I already understand the stuff they’re explaining, so of course it makes sense to me. I like this explanation of RSS, and next time someone asks me about it, I’ll point them to this screencast.

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Tannhauser

Published September 23, 2007 by cgerrish

I’ll be going to SF Opera’s production of Tannhauser next week. The music has been the soundtrack around the house for the last week. Just listening to the overture makes me happy. You’ve got to love a story that starts with the hero discovering “Venusberg,” the subterranean home of Venus and spending a year worshipping the goddess.

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Multi-touch Gestures: Copy & Paste

Published September 22, 2007 by cgerrish

The demo is fake, but the proposal for a multi-touch gesture for copy and paste is real. Will users take the time to learn these new gestures? Doug Engelbart thought so, as does Bill Buxton. A little time invested results in a life time of value. It’s the problem of single stroke short hand— or writing with a stylus on a PDA all over again. Graffiti never really caught on, although I kind of liked it. How do we get beyond the keyboard? There are some general functions like “copy and paste” that we need to bring along with us. Ray Ozzie’s Web copy and paste idea seemed very promising, and then it just disappeared. But the key here is “copy and paste” without a mouse or keyboard.

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