THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[January 31, 2004]
BBC News: "Imagine being able to pinpoint someone's location anywhere in the world simply by typing a few keywords on your PC."
Laura S. Quinn: "Understanding your limitations is the key to designing for them. Outlining the possibilities allows you to design and prioritize accordingly."
[January 30, 2004]
Larry Seltzer: MyDoom Lessons: Failures of Education, Antivirus Vendors - "There is an answer to the worm problem, and it's a bit of a surprise: SMTP authentication. Designed largely to combat spam, it involves a modification to the SMTP protocol to allow servers to confirm that a message purporting to come from a particular server in fact does come from that server. [...] E-mail is a unique method of infection, as it is the one Internet application everyone uses. The virus problem was a hassle before e-mail worms, but their arrival made it a crisis. I wonder if anything as useful will ever come along again."
Microsoft Education - Free Security Posters: "Educate your students, faculty, and staff on the simple steps they can take to protect their PCs." (via John Walkenbach)
[January 28, 2004]
Douglas Bowman (Stopdesign): The IE Factor - "The browser wars are supposedly over. We're supposed to be at peace now. Everyone is supposedly cooperating. We're supposed to be living in an era where we don't need to alter code and make unique design decisions for each browser. We're close, but I don't think we're there yet."
Sam Javanrouh: "My day to day visual experience. You can simply call it my photoblog."
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "You'll see the home page change at different times of each working weekday. [...] After the lunch hour, we'll help you relax a bit -- if the news of the day allows. We'll provide more links to material that might provoke a smile, help you follow the lighter side of the news, let you do some quick online shopping and remind you to make plans for the evening." (via Stefan Smalla)
[January 27, 2004]
Gerry McGovern: "The primary activity on the Web is reading."
BBC News: Files 'overloaded' Mars probe - "Nasa scientists say hundreds of computer files that have accumulated on the Mars rover Spirit may be the cause of problems that have crippled it."
New mass-mailing worm: W32.Novarg.A@mm
Jakob Nielsen (Poynter Online - Readers Respond): "People don't return to a site that's pretty if they can't use it."
[January 25, 2004]
Nova Spivack: "Will consumers want to post their thoughts and ideas on the Web for all to see, or is blogging really just for exhibitionists, intellectual impressarios, and voyeurs?"
Jakob Nielsen: "You can patent usability innovations to keep the competition from stealing them."
[January 24, 2004]
Kingsley: "Sometimes, the best data you can gather to solve a problem is qualitative in nature. Deal with it. Quantizing that data will only contort the observations and in turn, the findings."
Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Dan Gillmor: Spam Filters and Collateral Damage
Bill Gates' Solution to the Spam Problem: Make Spammers Pay
[January 23, 2004]
Azeem Azhar: My review of open source - "In coming of age, the open source sector has shown that there is room for a wide variety of commercial strategies, on a spectrum from the highly secretive to the completely open. And it has shown, not for the first time in business history, that sharing knowledge and collective research can be of benefit even in a competitive market system."
Wired News: 13 Languages Speak With One Voice - "Holding an international conference in multilingual India creates some unique communications problems. Open-source computer software is helping to clear the air. [...] The software can be run on a midrange computer, therefore cutting out the high costs of translation associated with special high-speed computers, consoles and mixing equipment."
Israeli journal Maariv is available online in English.
Achim J. Latz: Download and Read E-Books on your Palm
[January 21, 2004]
Comprehensive list of links on the topics of Web accessibility, usability, Web standards and many related topics. (University of Minnesota's Web Design References, via AnitraPavka.com)
Intranet Journal: "The most important decision you'll then need to make is whether to design your intranet to match the habits of your corporate culture or to design the system to best support the information and trust that the culture will be flexible enough to adapt to a new system. So, should the system yield or should the culture yield? Or perhaps a little bit of both?"
[January 20, 2004]
Good Experience: "Experience is bigger than Web usability. The key here is to understand that what you do at work - whether you're a marketer, designer, manager, usability practitioner, or anything else - concerns just a tiny piece of what experience actually is."
The Economist Magazine's Style Guide: "Clarity of writing usually follows clarity of thought. So think what you want to say, then say it as simply as possible." (via Joi Ito)
[January 18, 2004]
Tim Berners-Lee: "The Web is a tool for communicating. With the Web, you can find out what other people mean. You can find out where they are coming from. The Web can help people understand each other. Think about most of the bad things that have happened between people in your life. Maybe most of them come down to one person not understanding another. Even wars. Let's use the web to create neat new exciting things. Let's use the Web to help people understand each other." (Answers for young people, Tim Berners-Lee)
Stephen Downes: 2004: The Turning Point - "In what follows I base my projections not on stock prices, sales trends or focus group analysis. I base it on what I think - on what I feel, in the classic sense of the Idoru - is driving the hearts of those who will make the final decisions on the future of the internet, those who use it."
[January 17, 2004]
Jeff Nichols: "An analyst of any flavor (business, technical, requirements...) is a problem solver. The analyst uses proven, quantitative, documented methods to solve problems anywhere in the digital system development life cycle. The primarily analyst function is to 'bridge' business user needs & expectations with realistic capabilities of information systems."
Dunstan Orchard (1976design.com): 404 error pages
The Fantastic in Art and Fiction: "Sponsored by Cornell University's Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) this image-bank provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art." (via Portage)
[January 16, 2004]
The Register: "If everyone political movement and country that appears is granted a new domain, and no domains are ever removed, not only will our ancestors be presented with the equivalent of .bb for Babylonia but the artificial scarcity of domains that currently exist thanks to ICANN will be wiped out. You only have to wait for the tectonic shifts in human civilisations."
FavIcon Generator (via Joe Grossberg)
[January 15, 2004]
Wired News: Transforming Thoughts Into Deeds - "Five quadriplegic patients might be months away from testing a brain-computer interface created by Cyberkinetics, a privately held company in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The company's system, called BrainGate, could help patients with no mobility to control a computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired muscles, using only their thoughts."
Ergonomics Today: "Computer Vision Syndrome, or CVS, is already an existing problem that may also worsen in the future."
Ray Caesar: "My work is entirely digital, from its creation to its method of printing. I create models in a three dimensional modeling software and cover these models with painted and manipulated photographic textures that wrap around them like a map on a globe. Each model is then set up with a invisible skeleton that allows me to pose and position the figure in its three dimensional environment. Digital lights and cameras are added with shadows and reflections simulating that of a real world." (via blort)
[January 14, 2004]
Russell Beattie Notebook: Mobile Web Page Thoughts - "Very, very, very soon, more people will be accessing the web via their mobile devices than from their PCs."
E-Commerce Times: "Despite the rough road of the past and current potholes, micropayment companies still believe sunny days lie ahead."
[January 13, 2004]
Donna Maurer (Step Two Designs): Five ways to identify intranet usability issues - "This article provides five techniques to identify likely usability problems in your intranet. Some techniques provide indications about where the main problems lie, others provide concrete evidence. Each technique can be used alone, or in combination to give you a rich picture of usability issues."
eWEEK: Microsoft Bows to Pressure, Extends Support for Older Windows Versions
Wikipedia: Three Laws of Robotics
iceblog!: Beth Bartel, Live From Antarctica
[January 12, 2004]
John R. Harris (Virtual Travelog): Source Code as History - "When the history of early software development is written it will be a travesty. Few historians will have the ability, and even fewer the inclination, to learn long dead programming languages. History will be derived from the documentation not the source code."
Paul Boutin (Wired): 101 Ways to Save the Internet - "The Internet's problems stem from the same virtues that make it great: open architecture, the free flow of information, peer-to-peer cooperation, and a bias for linking strangers, not disconnecting them. Take those away and the Net might cease to infuriate us - but it will also cease to amaze us."
Howard Rheingold (TheFeature): Location-aware Devices, Privacy, and UI Design - "Location-aware devices and services are emerging at the intersection of empowerment and surveillance: the same technology that could let you know if a good Chinese restaurant or old friend is in the vicinity could also betray your location to a totalitarian government, neighborhood spammers, and your vindictive ex-spouse." (via rodcorp)
[January 10, 2004]
A List Apart: Elastic Design - "Not quite liquid, yet not fixed-width either, Elastic Design combines the strengths of both. Done well, it can enhance accessibility, exploit neglected monitor and browser capabilities, and freshen your creative juices as a designer. Patrick Griffiths shows how to start."
Search Engine Decoder - Relationship Chart
"The United States Air Force has developed a predictive Bird Avoidance Model (BAM) using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology as a key tool for analysis and correlation of bird habitat, migration, and breeding characteristics, combined with key environmental, and man-made geospatial data." (via Mikel Maron)
Richard Feynman - "What I can not create I can not understand."
[January 08, 2004]
The Register: UK corporate Web sites show 'little ambition'
"This site is your gateway to a New York City that existed long ago -- and still exists in a hidden form today. On this site we'll show you remnants of a NYC of long ago, as well as unusual scenes not ordinarily associated with New York." (Forgotten NY)
Rachelle Bowden (rachelleb.com): "I think the true sign of the end of the holiday is this: discarded christmas trees."
Diane Arbus - "I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them." "Diane Arbus : An Aperture Monograph" by Diane Arbus, Stan Grossfeld, ISBN: 0893816949
[January 07, 2004]
Dr Vint Cerf (BBC News): What the net did next - "If you have the ivory tower view that the internet is good only if everything on it is good you are mistaken. The internet is a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see. If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society."
[January 06, 2004]
Juan C. Dürsteler (InfoVis.net): "Graphs are the natural way of representing networks, in which we are increasingly immersed. Here we explore what graphs are, what they are for and some rules to draw them properly."
Nielsen//NetRatings: "Ford, Vauxhall, BMW and Fiat drivers display unique characteristics in their website choice" (about 69K as .PDF file)
[January 05, 2004]
Sabin Densmore (Sherbert Interactive): The human psychology of experience - "The internet is about discovery. [...] The challenge for the web/interactive designer/developer is to allow this process of discovery to take place, while providing the means for it to do so within the site."
Kevin Cheng (OK/Cancel): "Many software companies are familiar with the cost of maintenance vs. the cost of development. Few consider usability as one such maintenance cost. Instead of focusing on improving the product by adding features, increasing integration, etc., they are required to spend time rewriting existing features. [...] WinZip also illustrates how one could handle a drastic change in the core interface. Instead of simply forcing all users to use their new wizard interface, they provided the option, upon first execution, to select between their 'classic' interface and their new wizard one."
adrian holovaty: "It'd be useful if news sites made stories' importance more obvious."
BBC News: "The net is packed with property websites, but are they much use?"
[January 04, 2004]
Techweb: "Three out of four people connect to the Internet by using applications that aren't Web browsers, said a survey released Tuesday by Net ranking firm Nielsen//NetRatings."
Tokyo Ouja: "A man is known by the company he keeps. A Chinese restaurant is known by the fried rice. A website is known by the favicon."
[January 03, 2004]
Robert X. Cringely's 2004 predictions
Will Microsoft's Margins Erode in 2004? (Dan Gillmor)
Translations that are Marketing Mistakes
[January 02, 2004]
USA TODAY: Israel government suspends acquisitions of Microsoft software - "The Israeli government also will encourage the development of lower-priced alternatives to Microsoft software in an effort to help expand computer use by the public."
Tim Berners-Lee (BBC News): Web's inventor gets a knighthood - "The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. The idea was that by writing something together, and as people worked on it, they could iron out misunderstanding."
Brandon Olejniczak (Digital Web Magazine): Weblogging vs. The Googliath - "Weblogs possess many qualities that search engines - Google, Yahoo, and Overture being the most formidable - deem noteworthy."
Anders Fagerjord: "To me, organizing a Web site is more like organizing a grocery store. Where should the shelves be, what direction should the aisles go so it is easy to find a good route through? [...] Somehow (from experience, perhaps), we never expect a large store to be intuitive. We ask someone."
[January 01, 2004]
Intranet Journal: When is Web Content Management Right for an Intranet? - "When it comes to software for maintaining your intranet, you can choose between a Web content manager and portal software. The right choice depends on exactly what type of intranet you want to build and what type of information you want available to your users."
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