Pleasure and Pain

Measuring the impact of new technology on human experience

Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Web 2.0 Expo NY: “Content Matters” panel moderated by Liz Danzico

September 20th, 2008 · Comments

The last session that I attended at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a star-studded panel moderated by Liz Danzico featuring Jeffrey Zeldman, Alex Wright, Kristina Halvorson, Paul Ford, and Bre Pettis.
My Twitter notes on the session:

Types of content: navigation & orientation content, labels & action content, help content, non-textual content, content content!

Navigation & orientation sets [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo NY: Friday keynotes

September 20th, 2008 · Comments

The wi-fi was down at the Javits Center during the Web 2.0 Expo NY keynotes on Friday. And the cell service was spotty. I did my best to capture some golden nuggets. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to go at my normal speed so I didn’t get as much down as I’d have liked. Hopefully video [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo NY: “10 Tips for Creative Environments” with Adaptive Path’s Bryan Mason and Sarah Nelson

September 20th, 2008 · Comments

The last session I attended on Thursday at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a talk by two members of Adaptive Path. Sarah Nelson is a design strategist and Bryan Mason is the former COO and currently a board member.
My Twitter notes from the session:

The Neo-Futurists: 30 plays in 60 minutes. 2-12 new plays every [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo NY: Chris Fahey’s “The Seduction of the Interface”

September 20th, 2008 · Comments

I was particularly excited to see my friend Chris Fahey from Behavior Design speak at Web 2.0 Expo NY this week. When I saw him speak for the first time at the IA Summit in Miami, I was really impressed with his delivery. This was his first time giving this talk, but you wouldn’t have [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo NY: Genevieve Bell’s “Designing for the Internet(s) of the Future”

September 20th, 2008 · Comments

I had to miss the Thursday morning sessions at Web 2.0 Expo NY in order to get some work done. The first session I attended in the afternoon was by Genevieve Bell of Intel. As a former anthropologist and academic, the talk was much more research-focused than others, which was actually really refreshing — real [...]

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