Category Archives: Web Project Management

Search Engine Strartup Tips from Bing’s Scott Prevost

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I’ve got to admit that I’m not yet a big fan of Bing, but I really did enjoy these solid tips on video from Bing’s Scott Pre­vost.
The video topic is focused on search engine star­tups, but these basic prin­ci­ples can be applied in any soft­ware or web­site devel­op­ment project, (i.e. user expe­ri­ence test­ing, iden­tify prob­lems

Neurons with legs — How wideband social media is changing the world’s cognitive structure

Note: This is a guest blog writ­ten by Alis­tair Cock­burn 2009.07.25.
How wide­band social media is chang­ing the world’s cog­ni­tive struc­ture
Peo­ple work­ing together is like a large brain per­form­ing a com­pu­ta­tion, but in which each neu­ron has legs and tends to wan­der off at ran­dom moments. Hutchins coined the phrase dis­trib­uted cog­ni­tion for when peo­ple work together to achieve