I'm happy to learn (from the comfort of my hotel in Oslo, Norway) that Parentography has launched.

Parentography is an online community where parents can share reviews of family-friendly places and activities. I had the good fortune to work with the founders (Tim and Noelle) and the Q Crew on the site's design.

While I enjoyed shaping the information architecture, my favorite contribution was the excursion. Excursions let us tell stories and share experiences.

I've offered a few of mine. How about you?

And, please do send feedback. As the beta designation and the blog suggest, this is very much a work in progress. And, since I plan to be an active Parentographer, I'd like to see it get better and better. Cheers!

The program is up and registration is open for the 2007 IA Summit at the Flamingo in Las Vegas, Nevada (March 22-26).

In addition to all the usual summit goodness, I'm excited to be teaching a new workshop on Information Architecture 3.0, and I'm also looking forward to leaving Las Vegas for some hiking in Red Rock Canyon.

Engadget has excellent coverage of Steve Jobs' Macworld 2007 keynote delivered earlier today. And, here's the New York Times story.

This device is seriously cool and represents an important and highly desirable step towards ambient findability. Looks like my next Treo will be an iPhone. Heck, I might even dump my Dell laptop for a MacBook.

Building upon my user experience honeycomb, Erez Kikin-Gil has designed the UX Radar, a simple tool for evaluating products and services.

You can download the tool (Excel) and try it for yourself. It would be even better with an easy way to add rows (or instructions on how to do so).

Strange Connections

COLIS 6, a conference in Sweden focused on the future of library and information science (LIS) is accepting submissions.

The presentations and podcasts from the Chilean Encounter are online.