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Steve Ballmer gave a talk on cloud computing today at UW Paul Allan Center. Those are my notes and takeaways:5 things cloud computing will deliver:more responsibility and opportunitiesincredible user experiences (demo of bing map)enhanced social experiences (demo of sky tv on xbox live)ask for smart devicesimproved severs go along with better cloud computingI am lazy to type in the details. Steve

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While software/service design is going be more and more user-centered and user-value sensitive, would the data privacy laws/principles be the same way?When I was talking with a Google product manager last month about privacy issues, he said as long as the company 1) let the users know how it handles private data, 2) be transparent, and 3) be more user-centered in design of the privacy options,

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[image source: China Google (censored!) - 2007 http://www.richswebdesign.com/googlelogos.shtml]To recap the emerging issue, Google said on Tuesday (1/12/2010) in its official blog that due to the recent "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" and continuous disagreement with the Chinese government on the censorship of search results, Google might shut down Google.cn as well as its offices in

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This is my first post. I am so glad that most of the classmates in HCI course have realized that User-Centered Design seems to be too ideal, and not practical. The water flow model of the interactive software engineering life cycle illustrates that it is the right way of doing software engineering, and we all know that is true, but is it being applied in the industrial field? The answer is no. I

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