Usability Quote of the Day

October 11, 2008

Despite the enormous outward success of personal computers, the daily experience of using computers far too often is still fraught with difficulty, pain, and barriers for most people.... The lack of usability of software and the poor design of programs are the secret shame of the industry -- Mitchell Kapor, From Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, Software Design Manifesto, 1996   (via interaction-design.org)
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Saturday, October 08, 2005

Mash-up Apps and Competitive Advantage

Benefits of mash-ups including user experience ...

"The following bit emerged out of the Mash-ups 2.0: Where’s the Business Model? session at the Web 2.0 Conference.

Despite it’s name, there was only one salient point about business models to emerge from this session, in my opinion. The point came from Paul Rademacher, the creator of the most interesting mash-up we’ve seen so far: Housingmaps.com. To make Housingmaps, Paul combined data from two public services: Google Maps and Craigslist.

His point revolved around the idea that if you’re creating a mash-up from publicly-available data, then that data cannot be your competitive advantage, since anybody else can access the same data and create the same application as you. Given that, competitive advantage must come from somewhere else. Paul suggested that there were three ways to do this with mash-ups."   continued ...   (Via Bokardo)

Web 2.0 Mash-ups. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Web 2.0 Mash-ups.

1 Comments:

Blogger HomePriceMaps.com said...

www.HomePriceMaps.com compliments thie HousingMaps site quite well.

while HousingMaps integrates Craigs list homes currently for sale and rent with Google Maps, www.HomePriceMaps.com integrates how much homes SOLD for with the google mapping technology

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