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Tom Coates

Tom Coates
Technologist and writer, Independent

Tom Coates works for Yahoo! Brickhouse where he develops new concepts in social software, future media and the web of data. His most recent project is Fire Eagle – a new location-brokerage system designed to make it possible for everything on the network to become location-aware.

He’s worked for many of the UK’s most prominent companies including Time Out, UpMyStreet and the BBC where he ran a small near-term R&D team exploring media navigation, annotation and distribution.

A regular speaker at conferences, Tom also writes extensively at plasticbag.org and runs the experimental online community barbelith.com.

Sessions

9:40am Wednesday, 04/23/2008
Polite, Pertinent, and... Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics
Design and User Experience
 Location: 2006
Matt Jones (Dopplr), Tom Coates (Independent )
There's an explosion in "personal informatics:" services that surface information about you and your network to your advantage. Matt Jones will examine how great UX design can maximize the benefits to all. Read more.
11:00am Thursday, 04/24/2008
Designing for a Web of Data
Design and User Experience
 Location: 2003
Tom Coates (Independent )
Design patterns for brochureware and editorial sites are well-established. In fact, they're so simple and formulaic that even waterfall development processes can churn them out. But what happens when you're pushing into web apps or social media? Read more.