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Kathy Sierra's Awesome Words of Wisdom: Video from Business of Software (in a 2.0-3.0 world)

Kathy Sierra's Awesome Words of Wisdom: Video from Business of Software (in a 2.0-3.0 world)


Kathy Sierra's Awesome Words of Wisdom: Video from Business of Software (in a 2.0-3.0 world)

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 08:23 AM PDT

Is your product, service, or company awesome in the eyes of your beholders? Do you help foster "self-awesomeness" among your users, customers, readers, or audience?

The wisdom of a social media consultant won't sustain core innovation. In this video, Kathy Sierra talks about how to reverse engineer sustainable passion. What superpowers do you give your users? Watch the video to learn about a model that helps people get better

The video is about an hour, but worth your time:


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Kathy Sierra is involved with theCreating Passionate Users website, where the bloggers "are all facinated by brains, minds and what science can tell us about the practice of making users passionate about their lives and tools. She is one of the co-creators of the Head First books from O'Reilly. I first learned about Kathy Sierra when I was taking a Java programming class on-line, and needed more resources. She created the JavaRanch website,"a friendly place for Java greenhorns"

By the way, the Head First books are great resources for people who are tech-curious and have an urge to learn to code. I love Head First books and have several on my reference shelves.

Thanks to Lukas Mathis for the link.

"...People are not into your tool, they are into what the tool enables." - Kathy Sierra
"Make them smarter." - Kathy Sierra

Business of Software website
Head First Bloggers' Reading List

Gesture and object recognition on your kitchen counter: The Oasis Project demo from Intel Labs

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 06:18 AM PDT

Intel's Oasis system uses object recognition that triggers various applications that generate such things as shopping lists and recipes. The system can handle more than one item of food. It includes videos of how to prepare meals, a great feature for people just starting , or those who are learning to prepare healthier meals.

In my opinion, this sort of application would be useful to people with disabilities that affect memory.



(Previously posted on THE WORLD IS MY INTERACTIVE INTERFACE blog.)

Raymond.CC Blog - The worst game to lose: LOSE/LOSE

Raymond.CC Blog - The worst game to lose: LOSE/LOSE


The worst game to lose: LOSE/LOSE

Posted: 02 Jul 2010 10:17 PM PDT


As always, I was surfing around the internet looking for many things, especially for oddities and such stuff that I could share with the Raymond.cc crowd. And this is one of the times that I’m not sure if anyone has heard of this “game” or not. Going by the name of ‘Lose/Lose‘, and classified as [...]

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