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Less is More – The Comic

by Nick Gall  |  October 5, 2008  |  1 Comment

Technorati Tags: fun Via a comment by Frank Hood on my less is more post, here is the perfect comic to illustrate my point. Be sure to read the comments to the comic…

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Less is More — Especially in Social Interactions

by Nick Gall  |  October 2, 2008  |  13 Comments

My colleague Anthony Bradley posted a thoughtful response to my post Web 2.0: Now with Fewer Features. First he wonders why I didn’t mention Gall’s Law. Well, If I were to cite a law it would be Sowa’s Law, which I sometimes refer to as Sowa’s Corollary to Gall’s Law: Whenever a major organization develops a [...]

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Web 2.0: Now with Fewer Features

by Nick Gall  |  September 16, 2008  |  2 Comments

I’ve read Clay’s musings over the years (I even blogged about his concept of “mass amateurization” back in 2004 — but I’m embarrassed to admit I misspelled his last name as “Sharky”), but I’ve never heard him speak. Clay Shirky gave a keynote at the Gartner Web Innovation Summit last night and it was excellent. One of my [...]

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