Innovation

I’ve been following, with some interest, over the last few years the open data movement. For me it started with Hans Rosling’s 2006 TED talk: Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen.

Last Fall, Karyn, Jessica and I attended the Gel Health Conference in New York. It was an amazing experience.

The Open Data movement is starting to see some positive returns. Listen to Tim Berners-Lee speak at Ted regarding the progress made in just one year.

It’s been a year full of wonderful (travel!, new job!) and some not so wonderful experiences – lots of false starts and surprises. Thankfully, things have turned out very well in the end, but the trend continues through December. As a last test for my endurance and patience, my husband got very sick with the H1N1 flu and was unable to help with any holiday preparations. None.

Should you ditch your favourite search engine and move over to Bing? Probably not - and here is why, from a user experience point of view.

http://wave.google.com/

Three weeks ago I was at CANUX 07 listening to David Armano’s talk, The Fuzzy Tail, where he described an approach to fostering collaboration and innovation at Critical Mass..