{"id":622,"date":"2005-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/10\/14\/557\/"},"modified":"2005-10-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T22:00:00","slug":"557","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/10\/14\/557\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of interaction data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell at InfoWorld &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/05\/10\/12\/42OPstrategic_1.html\" title=\"The importance of interaction data | InfoWorld | Column | 2005-10-12 | By Jon Udell\">The importance of interaction data<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Rather than consulting a dictionary to propose alternatives to misspelled words, Google instead mines its own database for patterns of use. If statistics show that a query for &#8222;Boswerth&#8220; is likely to be followed by a query for &#8222;Bosworth,&#8220; the search engine will make that connection for you.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions of software as a service tend to focus on its obvious benefits: zero-footprint deployment and seamless incremental upgrades. Less noticed, but equally valuable, is the constant flow of interaction data. The back-and-forth chatter between an application and its host environment can be a drag when connectivity is marginal and it precludes offline use. But when this communication flows freely, it paints a moving picture that shows how individuals and groups are using the software. As they watch that movie, developers become intimate observers of their users. They can&#8217;t help but think of ways to optimize the patterns they discover, and, as a result, the software improves gradually and continuously.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell at InfoWorld &#8211; The importance of interaction data: &#8222;Rather than consulting a dictionary to propose alternatives to misspelled words, Google instead mines its own database for patterns of use. If statistics show that a query for &#8222;Boswerth&#8220; is likely to be followed by a query for &#8222;Bosworth,&#8220; the search engine will make that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}