Ambient Findability
Peter Morville
abstract
How do people find their way through an age of information overload? How can people combine streams of complex information to filter out only the parts they want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to people’s questions?
Peter Morville, author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, spent the last decade answering these questions. Ambient Findability is an unusual journey into the emerging reality that lets us find anyone or anything from anywhere at anytime. As both roadmap and manifesto, this book explains the economic and cultural impact of search and wayfinding technologies at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet. Ambient Findability charts a path through the new landscape of marketing and design in a society that’s shifting attention and authority from institutional to individual sources of wisdom and inspiration.
Ambient Findability is an amazing boundary spanner with insights that may forever change how you think, where you go, what you find, and who you become.
keywords
information technologies, Internet, World Wide Web, information retrieval, information architecture, human-computer-interaction
catalogue card
Title: Ambient Findability
Autor: Peter Morville
Publication:
Subject: Information extraction, Internet
ISBN: 0-596-00765-5
index
1. Lost and Found
2. A Brief History of Wayfinding
3. Information Interaction
4. Intertwingled
5. Push and Pull
6. The Sociosemantic Web
7. Inspired Decisions
in-depth
Creative Commons Licences: An Alternative to copyright?, by Raquel Xalabarder. Presentation by Ignasi Labastida
analysis and debate
Ten Years of (Everyday) Life on the Screen: A Critical Re-reading of the Proposal of Sherry Turkle, by Julio Meneses
ICT, productivity and economic growth: the empirical contribution of Jorgenson, Ho and Stiroh, by Joan Torrent
miscellany
Opportunities and Challenges of the Textile Industry in the Knowledge Economy: Towards a Network Company Model, by Pilar Martínez and Ana Isabel Jiménez
Criteria for Migration to Linux in Local Administrations of the EU. The Cases of Munich and Newham, by Daniel Reina
Alfabetismos digitales. Comunicación, innovación y educación en la era electrónica, by Ilana Snyder. By Jordi Planella
Making It Personal: How to Profit from Personalization without Invading Privacy, by Bruce Kasanoff. By Julià Minguillón
JORGENSON, Dale; HO, Mun S.; STIROH, Kevin (2005). Productivity, volume 3: Information Technology and the American Growth Ressurgence
LATOUR, Bruno (2005). Reassembling the Social: an Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
MORVILLE, Peter (2005). Ambient Findability
SHANE, Peter (2004). Democracy Online: the Prospects for Political Renewal through the Internet
TIRADO, Francisco (2004). Cyborgs y extituciones: nuevas formas para lo social
ZHANG, Yanchun; XU YU, Jeffrey; HOU, Jingyu (2005). Web Communities: Analysis and Construction
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