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A small 'brain fart' (idea). One of the great things about paper is the fact that you can put pieces of paper side-by-side. This is great when you have to review a document or check difference between documents. This 'feature' of paper is not supported well in the digital domain. eReaders and computers have a hard time mimicking this. However, using multi-touch screens , like Microsoft Surface , brings this concept closer to the digital domain. Then again, most people don't like to read from a screen. Reading from an eReaders seems to better (more paper-like). I carpool to work. Yesterday on our way back we were talking about the affordances of paper vs. digital documents. And then we wondered: why can't we combine what eReaders are good at with what multi-touch is good at? We would then have a screen that could be integrated into our desks, giving us lots of freedom to move documents around, annotate and resize them, search on them, pile them, etc. But, b...

Just wanted to point you to this. Your traditional sticky note (I use lots of them!), but on epaper . Looks really cool. Could be a mini-wiki too! [Thanks CNET for the pointer]

Hmm, got to find a reason to go to Boston ... Anyone have pictures of people using the tabletops in these hotels?

Thanks for the certificate. But first of all: thank you Mozilla for building a wonderful browser! Keep up the good work.

Wow, did you see this ? Go the site and type in a query! This is a site to demo MS's Silverlight technology . This is a interesting application for information management and literature research.

Sometimes you walk into a building and you just say: "Wow!". That's the experience I had when I visited the Dialogues House in Amsterdam. It's related to the ABN-Amro bank. As I wrote before I'd be there for a meeting with knowledge managers from large companies in The Netherlands. We had a great time. The meeting's topic was open innovation. The Dialogues House was set up to facilitate open innovation from inside and outside the bank. We also walked through the building. Their website shows nicely how they built it up. I also made some pictures you can find here . Go and have a look!

Nice post on ReadWriteWeb giving an overview of UI concepts that could help us overcome information overload (with several nice video demo's!). These could also address the integration of paper and digital documents, as I post before , relating to Microsoft Surface.

Ran into this on the O'Reilly Radar . Very funny and it reminds me of something... Post to Del.icio.us / Furl It

Ran into this on Marc Andreessen's blog : I used to play with Crayons ... So, there's practically the same for adults too. (I bet the Crayola version is based on this stuff.) It's the MIT Whiteboard : Post to Del.icio.us / Furl It

Microsoft Surface just launched. It looks really cool. What's the idea? Here's what Microsoft says: Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, dynamic surface that provides effortless interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. Beginning at the end of this year, consumers will be able to interact with Surface in hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and public entertainment venues. But it also reminds me of two things I saw before. Surface looks a lot like: BumpTop 3D Desktop (also see the Youtube video !). And it also reminds me of Jeff Han at TED talks, Unveiling the genius of multi-touch interface design . Is there a connection?