The report documents how evacuees stopped to help the injured and assist the mobility-impaired. They are less attached to PCs and more interested in accessing information through mobile devices, when and where they need it. Home | Blog The Old Joining Dots Blog Please note this site has been retired and is no longer updated. Web 2.0 MORE >>

advise people to “Design the mobile version first&# to help them focus on the key user benefits. What starts out as “Writer for iPad&# can end up as Microsoft Word. Both scenarios are solvable, but an application that makes the wrong assumptions about its users will fail. Take, for example, a good driver. Passive. MORE >>

Devices (desktop, mobile, in-room). Simple use case scenarios discussed that exercise architectural components (e.g., can plug-in behind Microsoft Office Communicator, Sametime, etc. Joe Burton, CTO, Session Notes: Why is an architectural approach towards collaboration important? Example1: collaboration-enabled CRM process. MORE >>

The mistake Microsoft made with its mobile phone software was making a mini version of Windows for mobile devices, assuming everyone would use a stylus to cope with the tiny weeny buttons for accessing apps. Apple came along and treated mobile phone apps as different to the PC. Goodbye stylus. Goodbye physical keyboard. MORE >>

Today “user generated content” has become a major buzzword, referring both to personal sites and blogs, and to content submitted to mainstream media, such as mobile camera photos or home video footage. Microsoft too is aggressively following the ad aggregation path. The Strategic Framework and explanation below are work in progress. MORE >>