Social is Taking Over

Social Media has been THE hot topic for me for two years. I find myself spending more time in those networks then in anywhere else online. It is a shame though as I am trying to capture my thoughts in as little as 140 characters. I recently heard a piece on a podcast about Agatha Christie and the onset of alhezmeirs. Seemed they could tell it was coming because her vocabulary volume decreased over time until her last books had a smaller and smaller % of words compared to earlier works. Being past 40, I have noticed how my brain does not seem to be keeping up with my desires and itnents so I am going to bring this blog up to speed more and more, hopefully, stay tuned and lests see :)

Another iPad

This past week, I learned a I won another iPad. I got my first from Virtusa, in a business card raffle at the Gartner Content Management conference. This one is from Bridgeline from the Marketing Profs B2B Forum 2010 last week in Boston. I wasn't even going to enter , but Paul Bearne, our social media specialist kept insisting I win him won. Sorry Paul, but I am keeping this one.

Jakob Nielsen has conducted some usability tests on the iPad and while preliminary, I would tend to agree with most of his findings from my own personal experience. The big issue, as I see it, is the need to create some standards for design for the device. It isn't a laptop with a mouse and it isn't an iPhone with the small real estate. So there is some opportunity there.

I fear there will be a number of designers, like those with USA Today, who design apps instead of web interfaces , that hide navigation elements in the design. I predict it will take 18-36 months for this standards to start to be locked in.