Archive for February, 2009

Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Blogger Mistakes

Jakob Nielsen is well-known in the field of usability. All his articles are actually very current in nature and very useful for those designing interactions, UIs, Websites and any type of media that interacts with users. Here is his take on the 10 most common mistakes commited by bloggers as far as usability and design [...]

Stigmergy in Virtual Worlds

Many researchers have been talking about stigmergy in Web-based environments. Sarah Intellagirl Robbins has been doing research in facets of Virtual Worlds and their potential for education. Stigmergy is one of the affordances she identified (or put the name to the face) in working with Virtual Worlds. From Wikipedia we have: Stigmergy is a mechanism of [...]

Microsoft Supports Games + Learning Research

“Serious games” is a term that I am not very fond of since it could imply that the games we discuss are just that: serious. More than that, “serious games” does not seem to be powerful and open enough to let in games that are NOT created with Education in mind. Well, not being the [...]

Free Live Streaming Services

Many experts (or expert wannabes of all field, especially technology-related topics) have daily or weekly “shows:” they host live on the internet via streaming services that are out there and even integrate chat capabilities. I always stumble upon a video or two of Chris Pirillo’s show either recorded on Youtube or live on his blog. [...]

Ma.gnolia and The Backup Lesson

Social bookmarking site and community Ma.gnolia‘s recent backup crisis serves as a sour reminder of the importance of backing up data being it one’s local computer’s documents or website databases. Backup resources are now cheaper than ever (it is possible to get terabytes of storage on external hat drives for less than $200) and more [...]