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Reasonable summary of why usability review is valuable. 10:31:41 AM |
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First Monday: From September 6, 1999; The Visible Problems of the Invisible Computer: A Skeptical Look at Information Appliances. Andrew Odlyzko. Worth a read, but even the great bear himself had caught a little dotcom madness. 9:01:12 AM |
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Whodunit? Only Webmaster Knows. The phone rings. On the other end is strange voice, threatening your life. Then the line goes dead. This is Majestic, the new online conspiracy game. 12:08:38 PM |
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Useful article on card sorting. IA made real. 9:04:34 AM |
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via Google: Readable synopsis of Velikovsky-like resynchronisation of ancient Egypt and Israel. I like the enormous amount of effort that goes into trying to proove / disproove biblical stories. 11:29:33 AM |
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BBC don’t-miss: Illiterate Indian street kids crack the Internet. Wait-and-see usability testing. 11:24:45 AM |
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Ninjai. Cracking animated film about a micro-Ninja. Great music, effects, etc. 11:24:01 AM |
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DaveNet: Google upgrades the Web. I call it a JIT-SE or Just-In-Time-Search-Engine. The JIT-SE feature is particularly suited to weblogs, which are time-oriented websites. The Google crawler notices that I update my site every day, so it knows it should come back and re-index my site every day. 1:27:11 PM |
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UP Magazine: When Larry met Sergey. The answer is testing, testing and then more testing. Every innovation is checked on the site, on users and on the company to make sure that, as Page says: “we are making things better not worse”. Indeed, they have no qualms about testing a product right down the line and then not releasing it. 1:26:46 PM |
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Good analysis of why the Tivo UI can work and that the standard WIMP one sucks. 1:21:35 PM |
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Cringely: MSIE dropping plug-in support to boost .Net? 2:35:20 PM |
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The Economist survey on drugs. The Economist has published a survey on illegal drugs. Its long, but its packed with facts. I love the Economist’s tone – I don’t know how they manage to get such consistency of voice. 2:34:51 PM |
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Mappa.Mundi Magazine: Show Me The Money. “It is probably the most useful exemplar of information mapping on the Web today and is well worth trying out if you’ve never used it. On one single map one can quickly gain a sense of the overall market conditions, yet still see many hundreds of individual data elements.” One of my long term favourites. 2:33:35 PM |
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NYTimes via WSN: Amazing long article about realworld economics in the Congo. More Coltan stuff, but extraordinary to think about as we sit at our desks. 2:32:44 PM |
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Wednesday: 15-August-2001 — Painless Software Management. Painless Software Management (WebWord) — “Companies add features because some customers want them. Not every customer wants every feature: most … 2:31:31 PM |
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15-August-2001 — Online Flight Booking – A Comparative Analysis. Online Flight Booking – A Comparative Analysis (Frontend) — “In the broadest sense, an online transaction is any web-based interaction … 2:30:58 PM |
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Web Techniques: Registration Revamp. This experience taught me that registration systems are big chunks of code. So if you want to redesign one, you either need lots of authority, very persuasive arguments, or design strategies that minimally affect the code and account for business practicalities. 2:30:12 PM |
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DaveNet: Excerpt from Breaking Windows. In Breaking Windows, however, a different picture emerges. The agony inside and around Microsoft is the theme of Bank’s fantastic book. I believe it’s the most illuminating and important book you can read in 2001 if you’re part of the computer, software or Internet industry. 2:29:35 PM |
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Industry Standard: From November 14, 1999; Architecting Innovation. Lawrence Lessig is talking sense, as usual. 2:29:05 PM |
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MS patch-scanner for Win-NT, 2K, IIS, SQL. Use it. 2:28:21 PM |
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Transcript of a discussion at the O’Reilly Open Source conference. The part about patents starts on page 3. The question from the audience about patents is on page 5. Microsoft’s rep said “Well, at the end of the day, if you have a patent, you enforce the patent if it’s valuable to you. And so I think that Microsoft and other people who have patents will ultimately decide to enforce those patents.” [Scripting News] 1:49:56 PM |
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How Big Blue Plays D.. As in R&D. Lots of interesting insight into how to run a commercial development department. 1:48:21 PM |
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14-August-2001 — Password Usability. Very simple article, but it is one of the things that Amazon has got very right. 1:47:33 PM |
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Mark Pilgrim: “Groove is an overkill solution in search of a problem.” 2:06:37 PM |
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Column | The Universal Canvas Revisited. Readers describe experimental approaches to live editing of web pages. Some great stuff on WYSIWYG editing of web pages. 2:06:08 PM |
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Column | Jeremy Rifkin’s “The Age of Access”. A stimulating book about how networked services change the economy, and us. 2:05:18 PM |
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Mob Software.. A Friday read. It’s long, long, long. 2:04:36 PM |
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Automatic for the Pedal. Recreational Shimano is taking the brains out of bicycling with an automatic gear-shifting system. Cool. 2:04:10 PM |
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Searching for Google’s Successor. Google is the king of all search engines, but a new generation of upstarts is nipping at its heels. By Angel Gonzalez. 2:03:36 PM |
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Interactive Week: Fueling Bandwidth Trading. But the energy giant and a few of its neighbors in downtown Houston believe that – regardless of the current wreckage – they are going to transform the telecommunications business and the way bandwidth is bought, sold and traded. 6:28:47 PM |
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NY Times: Software Double Bind. A question, of course, is how anyone would ever be able to obtain and use the tools that would legally allow them to circumvent copy-protection technology if the people that make and distribute them are thrown in jail or prosecuted in civil trials. [Tomalak's Realm] 6:23:41 PM |
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Industry Standard: Visible Hand. Lawrence Lessig. The harder issue – so far forgotten in this debate – is privacy. In real space, stores collect sales tax without necessarily collecting personal information. That’s because there’s “cash” in real space, and cash is a privacy-enhancing technology. [Tomalak's Realm] 6:20:55 PM |
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Renato Iannella: Digital Rights Management Architectures. [Scripting News] 2:11:59 PM |
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XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Basics: Push and Pull Models. Much more detailed, and therefore more interesting. I don’t really see the point of the push/pull definition, but the examples are excellent. 2:02:16 PM |
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The full text of the Cluetrain Manifesto is available on the Web. 1:51:09 PM |
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Steven Levy: “When it comes to protecting the business plans of those who publish books and music, academic freedom and free speech are apparently expendable.” 1:50:24 PM |
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A Warhol Worm: An Internet plague in 15 minutes!. A Warhol Worm: An Internet plague in 15 minutes. A more co-ordinated scanning strategy could infect a million machines in 15 minutes. Too fast for humans to track / deal with. 1:37:53 PM |
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Whatis: The Map To Better Web Searching. Whatis would include available site characteristics like news and discussion, that would make finding the type of site you want easier, and help researchers map the Net. Should we map against the Dewey Decimal system? 4:16:35 PM |
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Vandals and phreakers plague MSN Internet park bench. You’d have thought they’d have local calls only from the start, no? 4:15:51 PM |
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When I am King (online comic). 10:03:49 AM |
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Couple of articles against Scott McCloud on comics. First, second, rebuttal. Original source. 9:55:15 AM |
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MS poised to switch Windows file systems with Blackcomb.. The Register: MS poised to switch Windows file systems with Blackcomb. 2:48:09 PM |
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NYObserver: Byron reveals $425M pump’n’dump dotcom scam. Astonishing. 2:47:05 PM |
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The fattest ever fat cats?. This has to be illegal or something like that? 5:00:36 PM |
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Context Magazine: Bluetoothless. I have to run my WAP 1.x argument here as well. Bluetooth isn’t the net, or compatible with it. Therefore it won’t spread as far. That’s the point of the article. 12:56:07 PM |
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The End of Innovation?. Lessig on fire again. 12:51:38 PM |
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Technology Matrix Appliedtechmatrixapp: 12:49:56 PM |
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Holding up the rear. “Where did all that start-up money go? Clue No. 1: Today’s dot-com auctions are flooded with opulent Aeron chairs.” They are nice, though. 12:48:16 PM |
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Poetic license. When a writing student accused England’s poet laureate of sexual harassment, the tepid peccadilloes of a nation’s literati were laid bare. I wonder if Clare knows her? 12:45:06 PM |
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