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Jon Udell: Give Me a KISS to Build a Dream on.  Here's a nice exchange that reveals the difficulty with finding the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) sweet spot in the interchange of business information and financial data.  What I find important in the follow-up discussion on XBRL scale and adoption is the identification of the grey area that the developers are dealing with.  We will see if the result is as simple as possible (but no simpler) or too complicated to be used in a straightforward way.  This tension translates to many other areas (e.g., social software, designs of blog and wiki systems, etc.) once interoperability of some kind enters into the picture.  An important aspect of interoperability has to do with reuse of user skills and conceptual models, so it will be interesting to see what we can learn about that in this relatively-specialized situation.
posted by Dennis at 5/10/2004 12:15:50 PM