Interesting post here on swarm intelligence, but there's a danger in applying this concept in a disempowering way.  Fundamentally, this is an empowering technological advancement that can help people cope with huge volume information in our lives...

Josh Holmes posted here about the article on Enterprise Mashups he recently co-wrote with Larry Clarkin for Architecture Journal . It's a good article, and he talks about presenting the paper at SAF (Strategic Architect Forum) recently, and the feedback...

This snippet from the Windows Live team lets you put a language picking control on your blog page so that if someone wants to read your blog in, say, Simplified Chinese, they can just pick that language from the drop down. Thanks to Steve Clayton for...

I got an email recently asking me to present Microsoft's Software + Services strategy at an internal Microsoft meeting recently. The challenge: keep it under 10 minutes. After the session it occurred to me that a lot of folks might get something out of...

That is, if you like my blog. I've added a couple new gadgets a little ways down the right hand column of the blog. The first is a Popfly gadget of my blog. Why a gadget of my blog on my blog? Sort of redundant, no? Well, yes. But, if you like the blog...

Another very interesting video here from the folks at Kansas State University that did the Academia 2.0 post and initial response . (BTW, the first video on the linked page IS the Academia 2.0 video, so be sure scroll down to the second video.) Similar...

Not exactly new, but worth checking out this video if you haven't seen it and are interested in Microsoft Surface, the new multi-touch table top computer coming out "soon". More info here , too. Technorati tags: surface , user experience , UX

LiveSide just posted a podcast interview with Angus Logan . You can also get to it from Angus' own blog , which is worth the trip in any case. Angus is the Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live Platform and the main go-to guy for Windows Live...

Wow!  A new high for user generated content: 1 song, 5 parts, 1 guy -- all in streaming HD video! Jon Box pointed me to this amazing post from Carl Franklin where he videos himself doing a Steeley Dan tune ( Home at Last, 1977).  It's all Carl...

I saw this today, and it cracked me up. It's an insightful (and funny!) one-panel exposition on the importance of understanding consumer motivations -- the things that are important to them, what they are trying to accomplish. In microeconomic terms ...

Denny is introducing a new video series called "Weird Code" about people having fun doing unusual stuff with software. If they're all as good as this one , we're going to have buy Denny a new hat to fit his big head due to all the accolades he'll be getting...

Just saw this over at PhizzPop . What is PhizzPop you may ask? It's a fledgling community site for designers to learn from and showoff to their peers. The link above is to an interview with Ken Arbogast-Wilson, Manager of Media Development and Production...

Kind of a "roundup" post. First, this user-contributed metadata business. More the evolution of loyalty cards than of user-contributed media online, I think. . The next big thing: User-contributed metadata | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com . Will...

Ed has short, funny, and yes, helpful, post on how easy it is to put Silverlight video on your blog using Windows Live Writer and the Silverlight Streaming Services -- which by the way lets you host both video and Silverlight applications if you got ...