Author Archives: Nick

Yammer: Microblogging for the Enterprise

Monday, April 6, 2009 – 3:17 PM

Just a quick note about a new site/product a few of us at Habañero have been trying out for the last few days called Yammer. What it boils down to is a microblogging client that is a more robust and souped-up version of Twitter for the enterprise. It’s restricted to your domain (initially, this is [...]

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Drawing parallels in the usability of everyday things

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 – 4:54 PM

As I stuck my foot into the elevator at the Habañero offices — from the inside, of course — to hold it open for a colleague this morning, it struck me that a lot of the principles of user-centric design that we hold dear for interactive media and web development are not as readily applied to everyday [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo New York: Recap

Monday, September 22, 2008 – 6:25 PM

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I just spent a week in New York attending O’Reilly and TechWeb’s Web 2.0 Expo. I’m sure this has been covered to death in other places, so I’ll spare you the blow-by-blow delayed liveblog of the entire event.
While the keynotes were considered relatively weak from the perspective of most of the [...]

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Summer in NYC

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 – 4:15 PM

Or more appropriately, the end of summer in New York City.
I’m going to be flying down to the Big Apple for the Web 2.0 Expo from September 16th – 19th at the Javits Center on the west side of Manhattan. The Web 2.0 Expo is one of the premier web development and user experience-oriented events [...]

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Exploring the semantic web

Friday, March 28, 2008 – 10:52 AM

Just wanted to post a quick note relaying an excellent blog post I came across yesterday by Alex Iskold of ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies
Habañero has already been employing semantic markup such as the hCard and hCalendar microformats for several recent projects, so this is especially relevant to our business.
The addition of semantic information to [...]

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