C|Net: “One of Freeborders’ secret weapons, though, is its human resources approach, Cestar says. While Indian companies are using Indian managers in China, Freeborders uses Chinese nationals (who’ve spent time abroad) to minimize morale problems, he said.”
Jeffrey Veen: “Could it be that what I have always believed to be good interaction differs dramatically from what ‘professionals’ believe?” Spot-on. After the Global IA presentation, I had started to think that hyper-Flashy Web “experiences” were a cultural preference of Panamanians. Apparently not the case.
Financial Times: “Economic migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean sent home $45.8bn last year, 20 per cent more than in 2003.” It seems like remittances are a bigger component of our economies every year. This is an important indicator of the further mixing of cultures that we addressed in the Practical Global IA session at the Summit. (“Follow the money.”)
Wired: “We used to rely on philosophers to put the world in order. Now we’ve got information architects. But they’re not doing the work – we are.”
FlickrBlog: “Yahoo Photos will get a lot of Flickr features, and there are alot of other areas around Yahoo that will also be Flickrized where Flickrization would be good.”
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