This week (again) a lot of Google news (Sidewiki, Chrome Frame and the styleguide), Vodafone going social, Augmented Reality Markup Language and Generation V.
- Fresh vs. Familiar: How Aggressively to Redesign (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Users hate change, so it's usually best to stay with a familiar design and evolve it gradually. In the long run, however, incrementalism eventually destroys cohesiveness, calling for a new UI architecture. - Corporations in swimsuits: Are you faking social media?
Digital strategist Jordan Julien got us thinking about "synthetic authenticity," the risk large corporations face as they try to engage customers in social media. The problem, Jordan says, is social media tools were built for individual people to interact with each other, but suddenly faceless entities — big brands with big names — are entering the space. - Multiple Online Personas: The Choice of a New Generation – Intelligence
Is your business ready for Generation V? Baseline looks at how learning the personal, behavioral traits of multiple, online personas will be important to the future of business-to-consumer strategies and practices. - Sidewiki: Google colonial sideswipe
Not only do our friends at Google want to own all of our brains, but now they also want to own all of the comments on our websites. With a new downloadable feature called Sidewiki announced yesterday, Google is adding a feature that allows anyone to comment on a webpage and for that information to be openly available on the Internet. - Introducing Google Chrome Frame
Today, we're releasing an early version of Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer. - Why Windows Mobile as a Business Platform?
So why is Windows Mobile right for your business compared to all these other guys? - Measurement tool tackles social media challenge
The thorny issue of how to measure web traffic and social media activity effectively is being tackled head on by a new tool which claims to analyse both simultaneously. - Google styleguide
“Style” covers a lot of ground, from “use camelCase for variable names” to “never use global variables” to “never use exceptions.” This project holds the style guidelines we use for Google code. If you are modifying a project that originated at Google, you may be pointed to this page to see the style guides that apply to that project. - Vodafone links phone contacts to social media
Vodafone has unveiled a range of internet services which centre around connecting a phone’s address book with social media. - Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML)
With this surge in AR development the potential arises for the multiplication of proprietary methods for aggregating and displaying geographic annotation and location-specific data. Mobilizy proposes creating an augmented reality mark-up language specification based on the OpenGIS® KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML) with extensions. The impetus for proposing the creation of an open Augmented Reality Markup Language (ARML) specification to The AR Consortium is to help establish and shape a long-term, sustainable framework for displaying geographic annotation and location-specific data within Augmented Reality browsers.
Light reading
- Enhancing User Interaction With First Person User Interface
- Foursquare Beats Twitter to Local Advertising Goldmine
- Video: Symantec Shows The Danger Of Shortened Twitter Links
- The More Affluent and More Urban are More Likely to use Social Networks
- How to Make Data Visualization Useful for Color Blind Users
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Rick Mans is Information Architect and a social media evangelist within Capgemini. You can follow and connect with him via Twitter or Delicious
