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Usability and Learnability

Clark Quinn

He ended up with a core list of features that still defines Personal Information Management ( PIM ) today. Good portals provide several different ways to browse, and an ability to search as well. Tags: design strategy. Those were Contacts/Addresses, Calendar/DateBook, ToDos, & Memos/Notes.

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iLust? Changing the game

Clark Quinn

It’s got a moderate suite of PIM, including contacts, calendar, and notes (no ToDos, ahem), and a microphone. They’re creating the opportunity for those providers to elaborate their content with dynamic media such as video and audio, and interactive media: modifiable graphs, and of course simulations and games.

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Down on the iPad?

Clark Quinn

It is, instead, largely a media consumption tool and a PIM (personal information management) device. As I blogged, it’s huge for publishers, providing both a channel for richer media and interactivity, and a new unified market channel. Tags: Uncategorized mobile. This is not a real-time communication tool.

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