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The Washington Post has a new article up in their Jamestown series--this one about archaeologists' unearthing of the settlement's long-lost fort. Technorati Tags : Harvard , Harvard life insurance lead generation niversity Press , Jamestown

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Well not quite yet... but I always loved that little saying... For those of you looking for information and links regarding Maui condo rentals, head on over. My next getaway with or without the boys to Maui will definitely start with a visit to Hawaiian beach rentals . On a side note, my cousin Jennifer, her son Jordan, and her new beau are headed over here to Hawaii this summer and I am sending them the link too. If you can't wait coverdell education savings o hear their review of the site just take a look at the pictures and the rates of Maui condo rentals provided on the site. There is a whole range of options.... Crystal Clear sure to please everyone no matter their budget!

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... by Matt Jones and Chris Heathcote from Nokia. Unfortunately I couldn't capture the best bit of this presentation, the moment when Matt and Chris held out their phones and touched them - blip - and digitally swapped business cards. Gorgeous. In the beginning was paper tape: completely opaque. Then came the command line: an arrow, a cursor, and you had to remember the incantations. This led to text based programming. Then the WIMP. Windows through a window. Very abstract stuff, lots of guesswork – “moving this moves that”. Programming, however, remained in the command line. Then we starting losing things. The moment you could overlap a window, you had no spatial memory of where everything is. There are various limited solutions to this – Task bar, apps bar, Expose.. But the world is not a computer. We need new ways of controlling and understanding our digital world - you can’t use a mouse with a mobile phone, or tap on a keyboard at a bus stop. Also digital is really hard. Pick up a spanner and you know which end does what: this is called ‘affordance’ in user interaction speak. Digital interactions don’t have affordances ... the Apple window bar has three traffic lights, and you have no idea what they do until you click them. Everyone says adware spyware scan biquitous computing is 20 years out, no matter when you say it. I say it’s here already, it’s just not evenly distributed.

... by Matt Jones and Chris Heathcote from Nokia. Unfortunately I couldn't capture the best bit of this presentation, the moment when Matt and Chris held out their phones and touched them - blip - and digitally swapped business cards. Gorgeous. In the beginning was paper tape: completely opaque. Then came the command line: an arrow, a cursor, and you had to remember the incantations. This led to text based programming. Then the WIMP. Windows through a window. Very abstract stuff, lots of guesswork – “moving this moves that”. Programming, however, remained in the command line. Then we starting losing things. The moment you could overlap a window, you had no spatial memory of where everything is. There are various limited solutions to this – Task bar, apps bar, Expose.. But the world is not a computer. We need new ways of controlling and understanding our digital world - you can’t use a mouse with a mobile phone, or tap on a keyboard at a bus stop. Also digital is really hard. Pick up a spanner and you know which end does what: this is called ‘affordance’ in user interaction speak. Digital interactions strategy tactic on’t have affordances ... the Apple window bar has three traffic lights, and you have no idea what they do until you click them. Everyone says ubiquitous computing is 20 years out, no matter when you say it. I say it’s here already, it’s just not evenly distributed.

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