THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: March 27, 2005
[February 27, 2005]
The human factor in engineering voice applications: "You may never have heard of this field, even though there are a lot of names for it: psychologist, designer, usability expert, or user engineer, for example. Adding to the confusion, there are also many acronyms and terms for the methods they use, such as UCD (user-centered design) or UE (user engineering). It might surprise you to find out that human factors combines engineering and psychology. Human factors professionals might also hold a master's degree from an engineering or psychology program that specializes in human factors or human-computer interaction. In the speech technology field, background in social psychology (for example, social interaction and social cognition) and communication (for example, speech/language, interpersonal communication, conversation) is especially helpful for creating natural-sounding speech interactions."
[February 26, 2005]
Dave Winer: "Somehow I missed the announcement last week that Microsoft is doing a version 7 of MSIE, proving once again that big technology companies don't really listen to their users (although they claim to), but they do listen to their competitors."
Efficient CSS with shorthand properties: "One of the reasons for using CSS to layout websites is to reduce the amount of HTML sent to site visitors. To avoid just moving the bloat from HTML to CSS, you should try to keep the size of your CSS files down as well, and I thought I'd explain my favourite CSS efficiency trick: shorthand properties. Most people know about and use some shorthand, but many don't make full use of these space saving properties."
[February 25, 2005]
Firefox fix plugs security holes: "The bottom line is, NO BROWSER is safe from hackers so for you to pretend Firefox is more safe than IE is nothing but a pipe dream. Any browser is only safe until it is hacked and once it is, it is a browser at risk. Now you know and get ready for more serious hacks to come." (TALKBACK)
Patrick Douglas Crispen: "If you use Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, or Opera, your browser could be vulnerable to URL spoofing."
[February 24, 2004]
Winston Churchill: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts."
[February 23, 2005]
Business 2.0: "[...] a New York City startup called Transclick is rolling out software that translates e-mail and text messages with just one click. Simply type a phrase on your mobile device and the software can convert it into any of 18 languages, including Chinese, Hebrew, and Portuguese."
Benjamin Edelman: "How Google's Blogspot Helps Spread Unwanted Software"
[February 19, 2005]
In Chile, instant Web feedback creates the next day's paper: "This revolution has occurred, says the paper's publisher Augustine Edwards, thanks to his decision to listen to 'the people.' Three years ago, under Mr. Edwards's guidance, LUN installed a system whereby all clicks onto its website (www.lun.com) were recorded for all in the newsroom to see. Those clicks - and the changing tastes and desires they represent - drive the entire print content of LUN. If a certain story gets a lot of clicks, for example, that is a signal to Edwards and his team that the story should be followed up, and similar ones should be sought for the next day. If a story gets only a few clicks, it is killed. The system offers a direct barometer of public opinion, much like the TV rating system - but unique to print media."
[February 16, 2005]
Intranet Journal: "There are three main hurdles that must be overcome in order to successfully implement a knowledge sharing initiative:
- Technology: The medium used to support knowledge sharing.
- Process: The definition of a specific business process oriented goal (as opposed to the generalized 'knowledge management system')
- Culture: Understanding the collective mindset of the organization
[February 11, 2005]
Scott Berkun: "How do you convince other people to do things? Especially big expensive things? Here's a short primer on how to pitch ideas and concepts to other people."
[February 10, 2005]
DeveloperWorks: "Computers are getting faster all the time, or so they tell us. But, in fact, the user experience of performance hasn't improved much over the past 15 years. [...] Program complexity is probably the biggest culprit when your supposedly speedy processor still runs slow."
[February 07, 2005]
Frank Spillers: "Eye-tracking studies are a type of usability test where user gaze concentrations are recorded in thermal-like 'heat zone maps'. The heat zone maps track user eye movements. Eye tracking tests make usability testing look really interesting, sophisticated, high-tech and scientific. Eye tracking usability data appears to be more valuable or empirical since it is recorded using technology and gaze capture instruments. The reality is that eye-tracking, while valuable, doesn't make usability testing any more powerful. It's what you do with the observations and the usability test data that counts."
[February 03, 2005]
Freeman Dyson: "Now, after some three billion years, the Darwinian era is over. The epoch of species competition came to an end about 10 thousand years ago when a single species, Homo sapiens, began to dominate and reorganize the biosphere. Since that time, cultural evolution has replaced biological evolution as the driving force of change. Cultural evolution is not Darwinian. Cultures spread by horizontal transfer of ideas more than by genetic inheritance. Cultural evolution is running a thousand times faster than Darwinian evolution, taking us into a new era of cultural interdependence that we call globalization."
[February 02, 2005]
Andrew Swartz: "The greatest savings from a usability study come when we can show that a product is not desired. The greatest benefit comes when we help identify who will be passionate about a new product, and what is required to unlock that passion."
csmonitor.com: "Technological evolution in waging war: first you had human beings without machines; then you had human beings with machines; and now you have machines without human beings."
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