Kathy Sierra on unexpected context.

Because I have T-Mobile as a carrier I can’t use these (grrr), but Mobile Widgets look like a paradigm shift away from the grip of phone carriers.

Aussie Leisa Reichelt notes The Ingredients of Good Experience.

Also from Down Under, a new online journal about design (with an academic bent), Design Philosophy Papers.

Less academic is BusinessWeek’s new magazine, Inside Innovation, headed up by Bruce Nussbaum. Think it will feature IDEO and Google? Hey, what do you know: there’s Google’s Marissa Mayer on the cover.

Also from BusinessWeek comes “Web 2.0 has Corporate America Spinning,” part of special report on Web 2.0. Though I much preferred their earlier take entitled “The Power of Us.” This one is a little too hype-y for me.

And if you’re looking for some light weekend reading, why not former Adaptive Pather Mike Kuniavsky’s partial bibliography of magic in experience design?

And for the BusinessWeek trifecta, there’s Michael Bierut’s “The Road To Hell: Now Paved With Innovation?” criticizing BusinessWeek’s request for design firms to deliver prototypes of Inside Innovation on spec. We never ever ever do spec work. It’s pretty much the worst way to kick off a relationship.

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