Found in an old notebook I have:

Some character sets:
Arabic
Cyrillic
Latin
Greek
Roman
Slavic

Use
given name:
family name:
to express first, last name for localization

Year Formats:
Gregorian: 2007
Japan (emperor) 19 Heisei era
Taiwan 2550 (Buddhist year)
Hebrew 96 (1911 based)

Hijri - Islam
Lunar- Asia

ISO 86-01 universal standard for numerical data.

For time zones use GMT/UTC + Offset

Examples of how numbers are expressed:

England: 15,345.67
Japan: 15.345,67
Switzerland: 15'345,67
France: 15 345,67
India 15,34,567.89

Phone numbers:
USA +1 (555) 555-1212
France: 33.1.6172.8075

Japan and Russian address go from Least Granular to Most granular top to bottom:

Japan
104-0032 Tokyo
Hacchorbori 3-11-11
Miki Building
Shibuya
Toyko

for efficient internationalization:

- avoid using text in images
- don't use flags for countries
- Make room for expansion
- Make the design flexible and sparse

115% for Japanese
124% for Korean
Hinigan- Kanji - Japanese idiographs

Double Byte characters
radicals - 214 radicals
A-Z Pick list will not localize well.

Unicode.org
ASCII
latin-1
Latin-2
Greek Cyrillic
Thai
CJK
Korean

UTF-8 is most used on the web.

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I am a big big fan of Serge Lutens perfume (created by master perfumer Christopher Sheldrake who also created some Chanel fragrances)

I am very much looking forward to making my pilgrimage toLes Salons du Palais Royal Shiseido in Paris so I can finally get my nose on La Myrrhe and the pure notes of Fleur D'Oranger that are only available in Europe.

In anticipation of this sensory excursion, I ran across a number of websites dedicated to perfumes and perfume culture.
Top note, middle note and Basenote.. the language of perfume.

As you can imagine, a written description does not do justice to a sensation such as smell or taste.
You cannot describe the smell of something without the assistance of other referential smells to compare them to. This requires a mutual understanding of the described items and an implied agreement that the description is the opinion of someone else. Imagination is required to get an idea of what the smell is based on a written description.

I wonder if the same principles to describing smell to someone who hasn't smelled something before come into play when we consider social interactions with people we haven't met yet. There is that initial impression, the interactions and the lingering opinion after wards. All completely unique to the person experiencing the other person.

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Apparently T-Mobile has mandated they own the color Magenta in their brand usage therefore other companies cannot use magenta for their logos or branding pieces...

Here is a response to this from the Netherlands

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Virtual revolution –
Celebrities vs. spectators vying for attention
This is the currency and resource

See article about this on Washington Post
Thomas De Zengotita Draper Grad School New York.
Affects of print on modernity

Next to food drink and sleep the need to be significant the need for attention

There is only so much that fits on the screen of human consciousness.

People are staging their own lives and are the stars.

Me worlds – flatter people in their network- keep attention on yourself

Mediated world

Flattery of representation –representations of all things by their nature address you.

To call attention to itself and pay attention to you

The rise of the flattered self
Rise of mediated entities addressing us

The flattered self is deluded into thinking he or she is the center of the universe.
Reflecting back to us about who we are.
Announcing to yourself who you are
The age of fusion
Fashion, music, entertainment

genre-breaking

fact-fiction mashups

a large phenomenon
all the little creators
there no Picassos anymore…
everyone thinks they are a little Picasso and everyone is trying to be original and feel special
everyone is special
everyone is making stuff out of what is around them
hundred and millions of people trying to be original.

You are not a unique flower (my note)

There is no such things as real experience it has always been mediated via language

Sheer quantity

Quantity, quality, ubiquity

Difference between now and before post-modern turn
Realizing that everything is mediate became common sense.
(in the 1960’s this really happened)

Media puts distance between experience.

The one who makes himself
agermensch ubermensch

environment of options

Decartes - the modern individual -

project of self-making

we make the world we live in
we make the ourselves

Whats left of reality and if we lost it what was it to begin with?

Everything is Miscellaneous

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When worlds collide – Second Life:

Stephany Filimon – Linden Lab

Comfortable mixed reality

Social Virtual World – virtual currency linden dollar

CSI-NY had a virtual crime scene and interactive crime solving activity happen on Second Life.

Fashion is a huge industry in SL

Only the money is real in Second Life.
Job Ha.net

Mixed reality fundraisers

Spectrum of acceptance
People who like it
Usually intentional
Extension of real to virtual
Association with real-world identity
Well understood some precedent

People who like voice in virtual worlds
Often unintentional
Intrusion of real upon virtual
Primarily s “fantasy user”
Skepticism of association with real world identtty
Not well understood little or no precedent

Center for Interactive Spaces – Denmark

Responsive vs reactive technologies.

Personal Training

Asymptote –
Trust on the web-
Peer to peer trust –
Mutual incremental disclosure
Share information over time
Second channel
Move information from unverified sources to known communication touch points
Verifying network messages via email strengthens the credibility of both channels.

Seven strategies for creating Individual Trust
Individual endorsement
LinkedIn provide venues for feedback that allow users to keep each other honest
Institutional reputation
Leverage strength of external authority affiliate with larger institutions
Wisdom of crowds
Aggregate a large number of people’s evaluations
eBay feedback sense of reputation.
Visual verification
Use of personal non-public photo and other media – photos on Facebook to ensure a profile belongs to the person
Faith in Humanity
The craigslist approach…

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Using Pragmatist Philosophy to Design for Aesthetic Experience -
form and material
natural and instrumental
overall impact
embodied and intellectual
socio-cultural effects
continuity thesis
primacy of practice

and a critique about the conference

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Extending our senses

Urban Atmospheres
Elizabeth Goodman (UC Berkeley)
Designing Alternate Location Systems
Alternate ways of making tracking systems visible.

Example:
RFID, FastTrak, LoJack, Runners, Disney Phone

Wireless beacons

Precision and reliability in data gathering.
Privacy

Alternate constraints can create exciting new design territory.
Compact representation of complex data.

Mobile User Experience team
Paul Adams, Google –
Social Map –

SMS used to avoid awkward conversations

Need to think about broad conversation

How, when and where people choose different communications tools.
Context? Or the people communicating with.
How big are people’s social networks and how did they evolve?

Stop Self- referential design

Most of the time –
You are not designing for you, your friends or people like you

Making Social Maps:
Layer One - People and Groups
People tell you all the people in their social life and let the user group them together on a large piece of paper.

Layer Two - Them across (in a different color post-it) show how they communicate with that person or group of people.

Layer 4 Sharing -

Layer 5 - Mapping actual behavior
have them bring the phone and find out who last 5 SMS and 5 Voicemails were from

Layer 6 Sticky dots - (blue dot who is on Facebook, MySpace, etc...) very rare for any one group to have all the same networks.

Close contacts
Loose contacts
Ambient contacts
Indirect contacts

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