THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: October 30, 2004
[May 31, 2004]
Alex Barnett: Email v RSS, Email Marketer v Customer Matrix - "... bottom line is that Email as a sales driver has had dramatic success over the years ... the debate should move away from RSS v Email and move to how RSS can become part of the marketing mix."
Prints the Chaff is retired: "Time spent blogging was not spent with books, music, movies, family, physical fitness (I gained 15 pounds because I had to give up my workouts to free up time to blog). Lately I had come to dread it. Dread's always a good sign it's time to move on."
[May 28, 2004]
NewScientist.com: "The threat of legal action and hefty fines has done little to stop internet users around the world trading music and video files, according to a new study of network traffic. [...] The company's research indicates that the proportion of total net traffic used for peer-to-peer sharing has declined only slightly in the US over the last year, from 70 to 65 per cent. Furthermore, file-sharing in Europe has not dropped at all - it now accounts for 70 to 80 per cent of net traffic. And internet usage in both the US and Europe is still growing, meaning that file-sharing is growing overall."
[May 25, 2004]
Abraham Lincoln - "Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
[May 24, 2004]
Gerry McGovern: "Every time you add another link, graphic or piece of content to your page, you are adding a potential distraction. This may result in slowing people down or in stopping them doing the primary thing you want them to do."
John S. Rhodes: "Search engines are only as good as the pages they index. If the pages are poorly designed, the results you see in a search engine are going to be poor."
[May 23, 2004]
Simon Willison: "If your site is larger than a few pages, allowing users to quickly see if they have visited a link or not can really help them navigate your site."
[May 22, 2004]
BBC News: "Microsoft currently does not make any individual blogging tools but it is widely expected to move into this space soon."
Ergonomics Today: "Virtual reality technology can mean more end-user feedback before a design is completed, less financial commitment to the early stages of a design, fewer errors and costly design changes, a shorter time period between an idea's conception and the date the product hits the shelves, and an overall better fit between user and product. For business, virtual reality could also mean a greater potential for profit."
Wei-Meng Lee (WindowsDevCenter.com): "Microsoft has been readying its update to its flagship Windows XP operating system -- Windows XP Service Pack 2 (XP SP2) -- for some time now. At the moment, it is in Release Candidate 1 (RC1) status, which means the product has reached a certain level of stability and is more or less feature-complete. In this article, I'll walk you through some of the features you can expect to see in XP SP2 when it is finally released in the second half of this year. [...] Security seems to be the primary focus of SP2, but improvements in areas like networking make SP2 a compelling upgrade as well."
[May 17, 2004]
Ted Leung: "Lots of people think that open source is about the licenses and the source code. I don't think that's entirely accurate. I think that a very important thing about open source is the ability of a large community of people to work on a software system in a collaborative fashion. The licenses and the availability of source code facilitate that."
[May 16, 2004]
Design Detector - Chris Hester: Web design tips and examples
artnotes by ariana french
Christian Science Monitor Blog - ScitechBlog
Mobitopia - News, links and opinions about mobile and wireless technologies
Colin Wilson - "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it."
[May 15, 2004]
Eugene Eric Kim: "Creating a shared conceptual framework is a truly collaborative problem. It will not be solved by a single person in an ivory tower and forced upon the rest of the community. It will require constructive, passionate dialog, open minds, and much experimentation. It will require respect for other people's work and ideas. Most importantly, it will require a shared desire to make the world a better place by improving the way we work together."
[May 14, 2004]
Andy Budd: "There are lot's of good reasons for throwing away tables and adopting CSS based layouts instead. However in their rush to push web standards, many people have overstated the benefits. It's true that switching a large site to a CSS based layout can save a huge amount of bandwidth. However, for most sites, this saving would be insignificant. [...] The most important thing for high ranking is content and inbound links, not whether a site uses tables or CSS for layout."
Nick Finck: "We started out as a Web publication focused strictly on the front-end design aspects of Web sites. Over the years that focus has shifted, not because our readership had changed, but because the Web had changed. Building Web sites was no longer just about presentation and cool GUIs, it was about good usability, solid architecture, convenient accessibility and compliant code, as well as transparent design."
Google: "If you use Google to search for 'Judaism,' 'Jewish' or 'Jewish people,' the results are informative and relevant. So why is a search for 'Jew' different?" (via)
[May 13, 2004]
csmonitor.com: "The newest polluters are not chemical manufacturers leaking toxins into the air. Neither are they logging conglomerates clearing ancient forests nor avaricious developers turning wetlands into strip malls. The newest polluters are in your pocket, atop your desk, or clogging your telephone lines with streams of digital effluent. The information age, it seems, is data-contaminated. And it's not just the volume of information that's worrisome; it's the lack of context in which it's delivered."
Signal vs. Noise: "Good design in the front, bad design in the back."
[May 11, 2004]
Mark Nottingham: "Economic Indicators from the Web"
William Grosso (O'Reilly Network): "Is E-Bay Usable?"
[May 10, 2004]
The Age: "Computerisation has helped end centuries of tradition with Taiwan's parliament passing a new law that official documents in Chinese can no longer be written from right to left. Texts must now go from left to right, the same way as Western languages."
Doug Bowman, Blogger Redesigns: "We aimed at creating a structure and design that has as wide a range of appeal as possible. From the large base of Blogger's existing users, to the multitudes arriving from Google on a regular basis who have no idea what the word blog means."
Mike Muuss: Historic Computer Images (via)
[May 08, 2004]
The Email Telepathy Experiment: "Some people say they know who is about to email them just before they receive an email from that person, or else that they think about someone they haven't thought of for a while, who then emails. Many people have had similar experiences with telephone calls. We want to find out if this is just a matter of coincidence, or whether telepathy is involved." (via)
MOCA: Museum of Computer Art
[May 07, 2004]
Todd Dominey: "I personally think one of the fastest ways to push web typography forward would be more open-source, free typefaces. The challenge is figuring out a way to get them on end-users' machines, and we all know how quick some people are to download anything, let alone install. But, more typefaces would offer designers much greater freedom in their design, without relying on fancy CSS attributes or browser support."
SmallBusinessComputing.com: "How to Make Your First Linux Installation Like a Day at the Beach"
[May 04, 2004]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Henry Schneiderman, a computer vision researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, has developed the most accurate program in existence for detecting faces in still images and video."
Stephen Downes: "I want and visualize and aspire toward a system of society and learning where each person is able to rise to his or her fullest potential without social or financial encumberance, where they may express themselves fully and without reservation through art, writing, athletics, invention, or even through their avocations or lifestyle. Where they are able to form networks of meaningful and rewarding relationships with their peers, with people who share the same interests or hobbies, the same political or religious affiliations - or different interests or affiliations, as the case may be. This to me is a society where knowledge and learning are public goods, freely created and shared, not hoarded or withheld in order to extract wealth or influence. This is what I aspire toward, this is what I work toward."
[May 03, 2004]
Signal vs. Noise: "Are 'Back to Top' links useful?"
BBC News: "Dissatisfied with the look of their hardware, some enthusiasts have taken it upon themselves to soup up their computers."
Jakob Nielsen: "People get lost and move in circles when websites use the same link color for visited and new destinations. To reduce navigational confusion, select different colors for the two types of links."
Engadget: "Sharp's 20GB MP3 player is being sold on a French website for the grossly overpriced amount of nearly $500."
[May 01, 2004]
News-Medical: "New medicare website shows inaccurate pricing"
Haaretz: "Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Skipper Bologna 118-74 in Euroleague final"
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