The most powerful mashups don't just mix code and data, they mix cultures.

—Jon Udell

Repackage, rejuvenate, re-market, and re-examine those products or practices you thought would fly, and craft them a new set of wings.

Nine Lessons Learned about Creativity at Google

1. Focus on the primary Activity.
2. Identify your social Objects.
3. Choose your core Feature set.

aus Designing for the Social Web von Joshua Porter

Adding Richness to Activity Streams (examples)
via Jyri Engeström

Peak/End Rule. When people assess a past experience, they pay attention above all to two things: how it felt at the peak and whether it got better or worse at the end.

—Daniel Kahneman in the words of James Surowiecki

BBC Semantic Markup Standards via Code Candies

Experience is the Product via Adaptive Path

Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks (book illustrations)

Patterns for Sign-Up and Ramp-Up via Adaptive Path

YouTube

Ryan Singer, designer at 37signals, discusses the usability of sign-up forms at the Future of Web Design in London.

Design Patterns — Reuse, recycle, but don’t reinvent the wheel unless necessary.

Patterns for Designing a Reputation System via Yahoo! User Interface Blog via live.hackr

Talking Social Network Interop @ Graphing Social Patterns, East from Brian Oberkirch on Vimeo

via Own Your Identity

Who is authorative? is determined by who trusts them. Trust is not technical, it's social.

—Dick Hardt

If you can get people to have some skin in the game and it's transparent that they do have skin in the game, then that in itself is effective.

—Jon Udell

At a high level, the model is really, How do you get other people to say it's you? In many ways, Who are you? is really what other people are saying. If we get a number of them to do it, then that works much better than trying to go to one strong source – you go to a number of much weaker sources, but your reliability is much higher.

—Dick Hardt

♫ IT Conversations via Jon Udell

To produce good work, constraints should feel more like 'artist's medium' than 'restrictions'. Good constraints==freedom.

Constraints can help "Make the right thing easy and the wrong things difficult" (horse trainer and UI design wisdom)

—Kathy Sierra

Bruce Sterling from Innovationsforum on Vimeo.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

—Alan Kay