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The Secret Sauce Behind Google Wave

by Ray Valdes  |  May 31, 2009  |  17 Comments

Apologies for the provocative headline, but I just couldn’t resist. Actually, there is no single secret sauce, but rather multiple key ingredients of varying degrees of obscurity. Google Wave is a fascinating melange of audacity and hope. Google has blended multiple, powerful, sauces into this melange, some secret and other less so. One in particular [...]

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Wave Ripples through Google I/O

by Ray Valdes  |  May 28, 2009  |  9 Comments

At the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, Google just finished a demo of Wave, an early preview of a product that they hope will change how people collaborate on the Web. Lots of people, including my colleagues at Gartner, likely will have an opinion on Google Wave, because of its breadth. As the saying [...]

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Intuition-driven versus Evidence-based Design

by Ray Valdes  |  May 10, 2009  |  3 Comments

A debate that was taking place last month in blogs and in cafes around San Francisco’s South Park neighborhood has spilled over into the mainstream, with an article by Miguel Helft in today’s New York Times. The article is about two differing perspectives on the design process, one exemplified by Doug Bowman, a visual designer [...]

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