THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[April 29, 2004]
webword.com: "Search engines are going to die eventually and they will be replaced by problem solving engines."
300 Images From 1800 Sites - Small Web Icons (via)
BBC News: "DNA computers to fight diseases"
[April 28, 2004]
Functioning Form: "Creating a positive impression globally means not only understanding cultural difference, but also variations in best practices, Web conventions, and technology (in Korea, broadband penetration is nearly 100%, in Europe the majority of Internet users have dial-up connections). Examining variations with technologies is the easy part: understanding cultural differences (and how they influence best practices & Web conventions) is much more challenging but also a lot more powerful."
NewScientist.com: "New research has revealed a molecular basis for the 'Mozart effect' - the observation that a brief stint of Mozart, but not other music, may improve learning and memory. Rats that heard a Mozart sonata expressed higher levels of several genes involved in stimulating and changing the connections between brain cells, the study showed. The team, including the researcher who first proposed the Mozart effect, hope the results will help them design music therapy treatments for people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's."
csmonitor.com: "E-translators: the more you say, the better"
CyberJournalist.net: "How to explain redesigns"
Angie McKaig - an open letter to bloggers: "Full RSS feeds, please!"
[April 24, 2004]
David Lundblad: "Finding colours that work well together is not enough when it comes to designing for the web. A number of things have to be taken into consideration before deciding on a set of colours."
Ergonomics Today: "While some vision-related conditions may require specific medical treatment, ergonomics can also help ease the vision-related difficulties of aging. For computer users, regardless of age, simple fixes like reducing glare on a computer screen by closing blinds or changing a monitor's location, or increasing the screen's font-size, something that can be accomplished readily through most internet browsers' "view" menu option, can make a large impact on eye strain and vision difficulties."
[April 22, 2004]
Curt Cloninger: "Avoid sterility. The best solution might not always be the standard solution. And finally, contrary to popular belief, beauty enhances usability."
[April 21, 2004]
MIT: Information Services and Technology: "User interface design - Usability guidelines"
BBC News: "We need to make systems that users do not have to be educated to use."
[April 20, 2004]
Karel Thönissen: "Who should design the user interface for your next application or website? A programmer? A graphic designer? A master of arts proficient in writing English? The psychologist or specialist in human factors?" (via)
[April 19, 2004]
The Register: The future of Weblogging - "The development of Weblogging is a genuinely positive development in mass communication, and particularly in publishing and journalism. It is one of those developments - like easy Internet access - that one knows is possible but couldn't quite imagine happening."
UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops: "Invisible Web: What it is, Why it exists, How to find it, and Its inherent ambiguity"
The Invisible Web Gateway - "A Portal to Everything about the Invisible Web and Information Invisibility on the Web"
[April 17, 2004]
Donna Wentworth: Gmail: A Rough Guide to Protecting Your Privacy - "While the media has largely focused on the fact that Gmail will scan the contents of your email messages in order to target ads, the more serious problem from a privacy perspective is Google's ability to link your Gmail account information with your Google web searches. By linking your complete Google search history - tagged with your name and personal details - to your email records, Google can create a highly nuanced picture of you as a reader and as a person."
SiliconValley: Researchers Develop 3-D Search Engine - "In hopes of wrapping their arms around more of that stuff, computing researchers have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features. All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects."
U. S. Civil War Center: "Statistical Summary: America's Major Wars"
[April 14, 2004]
BBC News: Websites 'failing' disabled users - "An investigation by the Disability Rights Commission shows that most websites are unusable by disabled people. [...] The problems most commonly encountered by the disabled website testers were cluttered pages, confusing navigation, failure to describe images and poor colour contrast between background and text."
Micah Dubinko: "10 Things I learned while writing a book"
[April 13, 2004]
BizReport: Microsoft May Restore Security, but Not Trust - "The operating system used by more than 90 percent of people is the primary and often the only target for viruses, worms, trojans, spyware and other forms of malicious code. So what is Microsoft doing about it? It's offering a free CD-ROM with every bug-fix update it has released through last October for Windows 98 and its successors. It's readying a comprehensive, free 'Service Pack 2' update to Windows XP that should ship this summer."
[April 12, 2004]
Prof. Dieter Rams (b. 1931, Wiesbaden, Germany) - "Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful." (via)
The Observer: "Computer angst - now a universal feature of modern life - is an expensive business. But the days of the unfeeling, infuriating machine will soon be over. Thanks to break throughs in AI (artificial intelligence), psychology, electronics and other research fields, scientists are now creating computers and robots that can detect, and respond to, users' feelings. The discoveries are being channelled by Humaine, a £6 million programme that has just been launched by the EU to give Europe a lead in emotional computing."
Andy Edmonds: "The Making of a Visualization: Notes on Mousing Behavior in Menus"
Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space (April 12, 1961)
[April 10, 2004]
Todd Dominey: "Blogs are just websites - like everything else on the web. And the continued use of the word 'blog' and blogger community circle jerking undermines their true power and growing influence over both web architecture, offline media, and popular culture."
[April 09, 2004]
Wired News: "If you're looking for scientific information on the Web, Google might not be the best choice. Many researchers instead turn to Scirus."
Boxes and Arrows: "Card sorting is a simple, reliable, and inexpensive method for gathering user input for an overall structure. It is most effective in the early stages of a (re)design. And while it's not intended to be a silver bullet, when done correctly, it is instrumental in capturing helpful information to answer questions during the information design phase - ultimately making the product easier to use."
[April 08, 2004]
Yuval Levin: Imagining the Future - "To think about technology is to think about the future. It is, unavoidably, to speculate and to predict, to imagine how our lives might be affected by new tools, new methods, and new powers. Most arguments about technology are therefore really arguments about the future. They give voice to different sorts of expectations about progress and change, and to different sorts of intuitions about the character of human life. The particular technology being debated is often secondary to these larger much-disputed themes, and the public debate is shaped by different ways of imagining the future at least as much as by the specific technical potential of a new device or technique."
[April 07, 2004]
Steve Yelvington: Ten years in new media: Looking back, looking forward - "Here's my complaint about the last decade: We, the newspaper industry, are guilty of spending way too much time, energy and attention on technology (how we do it) and not enough on product vision (what we do). The result has been too many 'online newspapers' that replicate all of the shortcomings and weaknesses of old media."
kottke.org: "Google isn't worried about Yahoo! or Microsoft's search efforts...although the media's focus on that is probably to their advantage. Their real target is Windows. Who needs Windows when anyone can have free unlimited access to the world's fastest computer running the smartest operating system? [...] I predict Google will be the biggest and most important company in the world in 5-8 years."
About Gmail: "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible. For many people, email contains valuable information that can be difficult to retrieve. We believe we can help with that."
Seth Finkelstein (Infothought): "Google Gmail and privacy"
[April 06, 2004]
SFGate.com: IBM's 'dinosaur' turns 40 - "PCs were supposed to kill off the mainframe, but Big Blue's big boxes are still crunching numbers"
[April 03, 2004]
Chag pesach sameach to my fellow Jews. Happy Easter to our Christian friends.
Marc Hedlund: Anticipating RSS Spam - "We've seen Usenet spam, email spam, search engine spam, IM spam, and Weblog comment spam -- how long will it take before we see RSS spam?"
Michael Ravnitzky: "A Selected Bibliography on the Freedom of Information Act, 1980-2004"
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