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Conferences are cool. New technology, great people, a different city, and time away from work.  So you want to go to MIX, QCon, Carsonfied Events, Interaction10, SXSW or other great conferences?  And you want your company foot the bill?  Well these days you need a good reason.  What’s your business case?  In other ...

  Here are some notes, links and videos to watch that I talked about at my IASA presentation at ITARC in Atlanta.   Joseph Pine: What do consumers really want? This a great video about using experience to differentiate your product. This quote was from the upcoming movie Objectified.  Check out the trailer here. ''When ...

Graphic for my post on how Twitter is easy.

I've been doing a lot with Social Media since Atlanta Startup Weekend 2, and Twitpay.  One thing that strikes me about Twitter is that it's just easy.  I've created the following graphic based on the amount of work you have to do to participate in Social Media.   Twitter is so easy to use, all you do is sign up, and start ...

 Video: Overnight Success We've heard an amazing amount about the cloud at PDC.  And if you think about it, the cloud is going to change the application model for User Experience.  We're going to see a flip in the model from the desktop to the cloud. Currently we have the web 2.0 AJAX model and desktop applications to use a ...

Our favorite web, UI and UX conference site has grown up.  It's no longer just a site about the best conference out there, MIX.  It's now a site for discussion, learning, ideas, projects and yes MIX still gets some love.  MIX has a new URL which is more inline with the conference.  It's ...

I haven't really had a chance to blog to much while I've been here at Mix 08.  There's just to much to see.  From Surface to Elvis there is just to many cool things here and even more great people to meet.  I've been twittering most everything because I can do it from the session.  You can follow those at ...

Edward Tufte, master presenter, author and information design visionary will be in Atlanta on March 24th and 25th.  If you haven't seen him, register here.  You also get all four of his books included in the price. I'll be here and if I can go, possibly we could have a meetup with Professor Tufte ...

  Here's an idea for Photosynth that I'd like to see happen, that I had about a year ago.  Premise: Visual hyperlinking that uses Photosynth style photo mapping for search matches.  Usage: You're out looking for a place to eat and you snap a pic with your camera phone of a café, the send the image to the Photosynth query ...

Whenever the discussion comes to new technology and why would an organization risk using new technology, I think that Wayne Gretzky, yes the hockey player, got it right with this quote. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. Wayne Gretzky     Just swap ''puck'' with ''technology'' and ...