THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: June 08, 2005
[May 31, 2005]
Nooface: "As users become overwhelmed with data from the proliferation of broadband and continously dropping storage prices, they will become increasingly focused on browsing metadata (i.e. data about data), rather than the data itself."
Jeffrey Veen: "The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds"
[May 28, 2005]
Joel Spolsky: "When you start out as a beginning programmer or you try to read code in a new language it all looks equally inscrutable. Until you understand the programming language itself you can't even see obvious syntactic errors."
Brian Livingston: "It's still important for companies to stay current with security patches that emerge from Microsoft and other software companies. But these patches can't prevent spyware and adware from getting into your company's computers. It's equally important for you to guard against dialog boxes, which may seem perfectly innocent, but can be deceptive. All too often, even the most careful person will guess wrong. A big step forward would be for all browser developers to prevent dialog boxes from being thrust in the face of PC users by Web sites they may visit. If a site really needs visitors to install a certain piece of software, it can explain that fact right in its text and provide a dedicated download page."
[May 22, 2005]
Spyware Warrior: "Spyware and adware infections are annoying, frustrating, even enraging to typical web surfers. But what happens when a disabled person's computer becomes infected?"
[May 20, 2005]
Simpl(e)y Done: "Even when your ego is too big to fit on the screen and you think you are the best around or people tell you there is no one better, there is always a way to learn and get better. Every website on the web has something to teach you. Be it something good or something bad, but from every design it is possible to take some knowledge away with you. If you want to be a designer then be one. You must have an ego or else you wouldn't be doing it (unless you just do it for fun). Just make sure to keep it in check."
European Bioinformatics Institute: "The BioModels Database is a new effort to develop a data resource that will allow biologists to store, search and retrieve published mathematical models of biological interests. The models in the BioModels Database are annotated and linked to relevant data resources, such as publications, databases of compounds and pathways, controlled vocabularies, etc."
[May 16, 2005]
Standards-schmandards: "In this short article we'll have a look at why image based charts are bad and what you can do about it."
[May 14, 2005]
Jarrod Piccioni: "When dealing with minimalism, the key is to remove unnecessary things and re-arrange what you have into the most useful format possible. Reduce the number of clicks your visitor will have to make, reduce the number of things that might otherwise distract them from your content and re-arrange the remaining elements so that the page facilitates both reading and scanning of text. [...] The trick to minimalism in web design is reducing the number of things on a page which cry for attention, so that one particular element, the most important element, stands out above the rest."
SiliconValleyWatcher: "Early next week IBM will introduce the largest ever corporate blogging initiative in a bid to encourage any of its 130,000 staff to become online evangelists for the company. [...] The goal is to help improve IBM's competitive position in key IT markets by having more of its tech gurus participating in online communities and discussions. This type of evangelism through blogging can be extremely effective and potentially reduce advertising and marketing costs-a very large line item for most companies. Such savings could offset job cuts-the traditional way IBM and other tech companies reduce their costs."
Fred Wilson: "I think Google has become so mainstream and so ubiquitous in our everday Internet lives that its lost its mojo in some ways. That doesn't mean it won't continue to be hugely relevant, hugely profitable, and hugely important. But it does mean that there's a vacuum that can get filled by others who are small, innovative, new, and exciting."
[May 10, 2005]
Step Two Designs: "This article provides an introduction to information architecture, discusses the evolution of the discipline and provides a 9-step guide for how to create an effective information architecture. It also discusses the relationship between information architecture and usability, in the context of real-world projects."
[May 07, 2005]
Ars Technica: "While some attempts have been made (such as Sun's Looking Glass demo and Microsoft's 3D user interface research project) to radically change the way we interact with the GUI, the chances of these types of changes making their way to mainstream GUIs seem remote. However, as we look forward to Longhorn and future versions of Mac OS X, we can see that although much of the core functionality of the GUI remains unchanged since its earliest debut, the potential for adding new features and modes of interaction remains limitless."
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