THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: January 30, 2005
[January 30, 2005]
Susan Villecroze: "If you want a Website, but you're not a designer or developer, how can you go about getting one? You don't have the time to learn what it takes to be a Web design guru and you don't trust that your cousin, who studied computer science, has enough experience to build you a professional Website. So, who can you hire to build your site? With thousands of Web designers and developers out there, ranging from individual freelancers to big Web design agencies, how can you make sure you choose the right help?"
[January 26, 2005]
John S. Rhodes: "Usability professionals offer so much more than just testing. Usability dollars can be spent in other ways; in fact, I argue that usability training is often a far better investment than usability testing."
[January 25, 2005]
Holovaty.com: "Helping the community -- making the world a better place -- is why a lot of people went into journalism, believe it or not. Keeping a newspaper archive open increases the chance that journalists' work has an effect on people's lives."
Luke Wroblewski: "Since many applications are little more than text and buttons, icons are a great way to introduce some personality and positive visual impact to users. They are also quite useful as visual representatives for unique functions and as clarifiers of relationships between content."
Bill Gates: "People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video. And you do want the richness, the graphics that only the PC can provide. Now we need to make it very easy to setup, we need to show this kind of simple user interface can be provided there. The PC has more software, more competition, more richness than anything else. So making it simple and rich, that means the PC will be the key device."
Silicon Valley NORTH: "The good news is that usability of existing online tools can be noticeably improved by a relatively inexpensive redesign. The main areas where usability plays a role are in the display and management of content, the structure and organization of the site, the functionality of the site and how the site is designed."
[January 23, 2005]
Gerry McGovern: "The way to make web content more valued is to make it more measured. The more ways you can measure the value your content delivers, the more your career will be valued."
"Phil Bradley's SPAM Experiment. How do we get spam?" (October 2002)
[January 21, 2005]
Dana Blankenhorn: "Where's the best place to learn the art of network security?"
Google Blog: "Preventing comment spam"
John S. Pritchett: "Internet makes newspapers obsolete"
[January 19, 2005]
eWEEK: "Google, MSN, Six Apart and Yahoo plan to support an HTML tag to keep comment-spam postings out of search engines."
D. Keith Robinson: "Thinking Differently About Site Mapping and Navigation"
[January 17, 2005]
Can studying the human brain revolutionise economics?: "Some neuroeconomists claim that such brain-scanning experiments are the start of a revolution in economics. No longer will economists rely on crude statistical models of how people behave in response to a policy change, such as an interest-rate rise or a tax increase. Instead, they will be able to peer directly into the brain to predict behaviour. One day, perhaps; but much work remains. Identifying the parts of the brain that control economic actions is one thing. Harder tasks include determining how neural systems work together to create behaviour, and how wide is the variation in brain patterns between different people."
[January 15, 2005]
Roger Johansson: "One of the things that make Mozilla and Firefox so great is the number of excellent extensions that are available for them. Some extensions are of great help to web developers, while others can help improve anybody's everyday browsing experience."
Spectacle: "100+ Unregistered Domain Names for Designers"
[January 14, 2005]
Rashmi Sinha: "Most companies do not have big user populations who give them immediate feedback. One of the essential ingredients in the Google equation is quick feedback. Very few companies would be able to get millions of responses in a day."
Intranet Journal: "While blogs have been quite the rage on the Internet, do they have a place within your organization's Intranet? If used purposefully, an internal blog can be a fresh and beneficial addition to your collaboration and knowledge management toolset. [...] With a blog, the power of communication is given to individuals at much lower ranks within the organization."
[January 12, 2005]
Chris Anderson: "With the exception of specific tasks, such as search and transactions, the Web for me has mostly turned into another text-and-minimal-graphics stream that automatically delivers content of interest, differing from my email only in that it's not personal and doesn't require my response. In other words, the age of curiosity or routine-driven surfing may be ending."
[January 08, 2005]
Robot 'Learns Like a Human': "This capability is enabled by a high-speed wireless connection that allows it to communicate with a server-sending visual, speech and other data from sensors and receiving directions-and respond to real-world situations. The server's capabilities can be easily upgraded."
[January 07, 2005]
Wired News: "Searching the internet for images or videos often leads down a blind alley or worse -- to deceitful advertisers or unsuitable content. Researchers are developing visualization technologies that can 'see' inside images, reducing search engines' reliance on text-based image tags that are easily manipulated."
[January 05, 2005]
textually.org: "Tens of thousands died because they didn't know what was coming. That's an information breakdown, not an act of nature."
Henrik Olsen: "It seems to be an inescapable fact that users are highly goal-driven and tend to ignore navigation tools. Instead, they focus on the centre area, and hit the back button if they can't find anything that will take them further. The findings suggest that navigation should be a prominent part of a website. Instead of being discrete appendices separated from the rest of the site, navigation should be integrated into the site and make sure that users stay in the flow."
[January 03, 2005]
The Seattle Times: "Multitasking - a computing term that involves doing, or trying to do, more than one thing at once - has cemented itself into our daily lives and is intensely studied. Research has shown it to be consistently counterproductive, often foolish, unhealthy in the long run, and in the case of gabbing on the cell phone while driving, relatively dangerous. Yet it is also expected, encouraged and basically essential."
Larry Seltzer: "Review: Protect yourself from fraudulent sites by having as much information as possible about them. The Netcraft Toolbar makes that information convenient."
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