Nicholaus Malone

Last October, the Federal Trade Commission introduced a new of set of rules that would require bloggers, tweeters, etc… to disclose any free products they received or financial interests in products they review.  As Wired Magazine put it, the FTC is trying to, “prevent the net from being flooded with paid-for reviews which appear to [...]

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In recent years it would seem that the question of whether business methods should be patentable has come under significant debate (see judge Mayer’s dissent in Bilski).  Business methods have been patentable in the United States since the first patent law was enacted by the Founding Fathers in 1790, so why is this such a [...]

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I recently took class about building application profiles using metadata schemas.  This involves taking one or more metadata schemas (abstract rather than in XML format) and implementing an XML schema to accurately describe the information used in an application.  For my final project, I wrote an application profile for the EBSCOhost Business Source Complete academic [...]

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I recently wrote a paper describing the ways in which the rise of social software tools such as blogs, tagging, and social networks are changing the approaches that firms are taking in knowledge management.  The paper provides a general overview of the topic and examins some of the work IBM has done in the field.
The [...]

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For my IMT 580 class research project, my teammate, Helen Kresl, and I researched the organizaitonal information flows of the American healthcare industry.  You can download the paper here:
how-we-got-here

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This is the video we created for my final project in IMT 540, Design for Interaction and Systems.
The topic of the project was mobile technology in the year 2020.

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