Oscar Lin recommended this July 10, 2014 - 9:35am
Hongxin Yan recommended this August 7, 2014 - 10:24am
Slides (really a lot of them for a 20 minute presentation - a 3.2MB download) from my session at ECSM 2014 in Brighton today, in which I presented a paper by me and Terry Anderson. The presentation describes some of the reasoning and development process behind the Landing, mentions some of its successes, and observes some of the outstanding issues, winding up with a bit about what we might do differently if we did it again.
You may recognize some of these slides from a video I made last year.
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Thanks Jon for sharing. Great presentation!
Thanks Oscar! For the live presentation I gave out free humbugs (English candies). Very hard to do that online, sadly.
Impressive! Any plan to develop an App version of Landing? That would be a great deal for students.
Thanks Hongxin. We don't have detailed plans for that, but the Landing does play nicely with mobile devices since I rewrote the theme. I guess we could wrap an app around it, much like many of the mobile apps for stores etc do, though I'm not sure what value we could add through doing that apart from providing a nice icon (the same goes for all those mobile apps that do the same!).
What would you like to see in such an app? One thing I'd like on my mobile devices though would be 'send-to-the-landing', so I could share bookmarks more easily from iOS and Android. I'm seeking volunteers to write that! It's a little complicated because we use the central authentication system of the university, which makes it trickier to send login credentials than it might otherwise be.