http://www.creative-resonance.com UX, IA, ID, Design & Development - Clicks and oughta's - Beta :P Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:20:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs: Leonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to the Internet. He did so in 1961. Packet switching is the idea that packets ... http://www.creative-resonance.com/2008/03/29/leonard-kleinrock-one-of-the-inventors-of-the-internet/ No one person invented the Internet as we know it today. However, certain major figures contributed major breakthroughs: Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and ... http://www.creative-resonance.com/2008/03/29/joseph-carl-robnett-licklider-one-of-the-inventors-of-the-internet/ Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA (born June 8, 1955) is an English developer who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. With the help of Robert Cailliau, and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented his invention in 1990, with the first successful communication ... http://www.creative-resonance.com/2008/03/29/tim-berners-lee-inventor-of-the-web/ Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex, which was seen decades later as a pioneering concept for the ... http://www.creative-resonance.com/2008/03/29/vannevar-bush-a-visionary/ It is a shame that the slides are so small on slideshare, anyway it's the presentations are the important part so here's Lou (originally post) Enjoy, Richard http://www.creative-resonance.com/2008/03/28/lou-rosenfelds-site-search-analytics-workshop-slides/ If you ever wanted your desktop to be available anywhere that your working then you may want to look at Webtops This is just a quick share of some Webtop projects that I have come across that look fairly interesting, take a look and let us know your thoughts. Cloudo EyeOS http://www.youos.com/ G.ho.st Desktoptwo Jooce Glide Richard http://www.creative-resonance.com/2008/02/22/webtops-an-anywhere-desktop/ Logo preservation Most designers will recognise the logo above and will have probably seen, or been inspired by the collected logo's illustrated through out the LosLogo's books. Well they have been running a project aimed at saving the local logo from extinction, you know the cool old ones that are ... http://www.creative-resonance.com/2008/01/31/loslogos-an-online-project-logo-design-preservation/ Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor, pioneer of human-computer interaction and a humanitarian.His dream is to get society to buy into a means of boosting its ability to successfully cope with complex and urgent problems. Inventor of the computer mouse in a joint ... http://www.creative-resonance.com/2008/01/18/happy-birthday-to-dr-douglas-engelbart-83-today-inventor-and-early-hci-pioneer/ I have just stumbled upon an old post on Peter Merholz's blog something so quaint I had to be post about it, Peter bought and early Mac User Manual and inside it there are some absolute gems explaining to the Reader the concept of the computers operation.. There are a ... http://www.creative-resonance.com/2007/11/12/explaining-a-paradigm-shift-with-great-hair/ Can you imagine all the UX books, presentations etc that are going to need updating! Sorry Steve Krug - but you need to revise your book, "Don't Make Me Think". Ok perhaps the article title is a litte dramatic, but then so is the change at Amazon, take a look ... http://www.creative-resonance.com/2007/11/01/new-amazoncom-design-causes-ux-carnage/