[Sigia-l] Information Architecture 3.0

[Ziya Oz]

David Malouf:

> outside the web sphere

There was a time when you went to LIS school and became an IA...and wrote a
book about it and maybe had a little party:

<http://tinyurl.com/y6catu>

Life was neat and orderly. You didn't have to know much. And all Lake
Wobegon kids went to college.

Then convergence and "coherence" happened.

The walls between different operating systems came crumbling down:

<http://www.verysimple.com/blog/?p=67>

<http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2006/12/02/parallels-screencast>

Not only could you drag&drop and cut&paste and move effortlessly between
different OSes on the same desktop, but a company called Adobe decided to
abstract the three main OSes into its own hybrid:

<http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=75>

Where HTML, Ajax, Flash and PDF completely merge and interoperate:

<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143>

So that an Apollo app can run on Win/Mac/Linux, in a browser or as a
standalone desktop app, on/off line. And soon (because it has an open-source
Safari/WebKit based HTML rendering engine already ported by Nokia) on all
sorts of mobiles and PDAs.

IAs don't do non-web stuff. It's so unbecoming. Know thy place. Go team!

Ziya
Nullius in Verba