by Craig Roth | August 26, 2010 | Comments Off
Marc A. Smith, a speaker at our Catalyst conference, turned me on to SNARF. SNARF gives the user the freedom to build their own ordering. Each person in their inbox is assigned a set of meta-information: "number of emails sent in the last month," for example. These metrics can, in turn, be combined to create [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 20, 2010 | Comments Off
I realize my blog is new on the Gartner Blog Network and new readers may be baffled by the two levels these posts are written at. Some readers may have been attracted by general interest rants (in my old blog or my new one on GBN) about information overload, over-connectedness, attention management, and communication etiquette. [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Over the last ten years there has been an assault on the upper left corner of GUI windows and screens and I want to take them back. It’s a fact – the human eye scans from upper left to lower right. But the standard windowed interface pegs an increasing amount of tooling at the top [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 12, 2010 | Comments Off
The Wall St. Journal reported today that technology began 3.4 million years ago, which is one million years older than previously thought (“Researchers Say Fossils Uncovered in Ethiopia Push Back the Beginnings of Technology by Almost One Million Years” ). I predict they will also soon find the remains of the first technology industry analyst [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
Is one side effect of strict corporate policies against social software usage to reduce the level of talent available via new applicants? When a “no Twittering” sign is posted over HR’s door, are the applicants that step out of line more valuable on average than those that stay? I think so. If there’s a study [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m proposing some counter-wisdom about whether Gen Y and social software will kill e-mail. I’ve read and repeated the assertion that Gen Y will challenge the enterprise’s reliance on e-mail since they have learned – successfully – to leverage Twitter, SMS, blogs, and Facebook instead. So e-mail’s dead, right? Not so fast. Whenever I hear [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 6, 2010 | Comments Off
Google Wave is done. Or “dead” or “cancelled?” What is the right metaphor for not continuing a lab project that was hyped like a real product? In any case, what does the demise of Google Wave mean to synchronous co-authoring? Not that much – despite the hype, it didn’t really do that much to raise [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 4, 2010 | Comments Off
IBM announced Project Northstar at their 2010 Exceptional Web Experience conference this week. I blogged on the details and my first impressions previously (see here), but wanted to save a side thought about the potential for assisting with information overload for a separate entry. IBM defined their vision in a good diagram with 3 main [...]
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by Craig Roth | August 2, 2010 | Comments Off
The Wall St. Journal is running a great series on web tracking and privacy. Is the personal data collection industry correct that we’re all fixated on our name and social security number and breathe a sigh of relief when told they aren’t captured? If you’re tracking me (even if I’m known as “the tall guy [...]
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