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April 15, 2008

09:00
50 Years of the Great American Race DVD and Contest
A&E Home Video, the company that brought you the NASCAR Driven to Win DVD’s, is now releasing a two-disc set on the 50th anniversary of the Daytona 500. See below for the press release or check out the website. All I know is that it is 288 minutes of Daytona. That’s almost as long as a race at Pocono! Even better, they have provided me with a copy to give away. I have an idea for a contest, but I wanted some feedback first. If you have a fun idea for a contest, let me know in the comments. NE
Source: Technorati - User Experience
Categories: User Experience
08:16
Is it safe?
Wiki site helps pinpoint crime hotspots in Brazil
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology
08:04
MilkyTracker v0.90.80 released - now open source
MilkyTracker has been updated to version 0.90.80. MilkyTracker is an open source, multi-platform music application for creating .MOD and .XM module files. It attempts to recreate the module replay and user experience of the popular DOS program Fasttracker II, with special playback modes available for improved Amiga ProTracker 2/3 compatibility. Milkytracker - Desktop version & portable version on a Casio EM-500 Pocket PC (r) raina writes: This is a big release for us and we hope you’ll
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08:04
Creating Software is Not Like Building
I'm becoming more and more averse to the term architecture and architect in terms of creating software, partially because it is such an overloaded term that seems to cause so much continual opining about its meaning but, more importantly, because I don't think it is like what we do, at least not to the extent that seems to be commonly thought. We are not building houses (or bridges, or skyscrapers, or cities).  Houses, and other physical constructions, rely on pretty much immutable laws of
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07:58
IM aggregator eBuddy catches up to Meebo in popularity, claims nearly 10x more revenue
Web-based instant message services — whether AIM, MSN, Yahoo or Gtalk — are some of the most popular forms of online communication. There are a couple startups that have taken advantage of this; most people in Silicon Valley will know locally-based startup Meebo, which lets you chat with friends across any of these networks. But Meebo has a European rival, Amsterdam-based eBuddy, that may be less familiar. That’s about to change: eBuddy is opening up an office in San Francisco, it’s already ma
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06:26
Interviewing Saptarshi Roy Chaudhury – Blogger
Interviewing Saptarshi Roy Chaudhury – Blogger Posted on April 15, 2008 by MrDoubts Hello readers, Here is an Interview of Saptarshi Roy Choudhury from SEO Kolkata: MrDoubts: Tell us something about your blog: Saptarshi: I started my blog way back in October 2006. I used to read a lot of SEO blogs and participate in many forums but I felt that there is still some lack in providing the absolute basics of SEO to unsuspecting individuals - I planned to serve that purpose with this blog, howev
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05:57
Mobile designers “Hoping to Make Phone Buyers Flip”
A nice article on The New York Times, what mobile designers think behind the scene and workaround for “hoping to Make Phone Buyers Flip“. Forecasting what consumers will want next year, and into the future. Designing a Mobile phone is just not an easy task there are many things to see, evaluate and analyze around the people. Jotting down feelings about features  what users are looking for, share their emotions about mobile phone, understanding the psyche of consumers and why they pick one pho
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05:54
Hold on Tight, We've Got Another Contest For You!
I'll officially start the contest tomorrow, but I just couldn't resist giving you a sneak peek! Check it out, here is what you can win (taken from the original Press Release); THIS APRIL, EXPERIENCE ALL THE ACTION AND GLORY OF NASCAR'S MILESTONE RACE WITH A GROUNDBREAKING, INTERACTIVE 2-DVD SET DAYTONA 500: THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY The $24.95srp DVD Features an Innovative “My Race” Interactive Format, Offering All the Action from Six Different Driver Perspectives and a Variety of Audio Feeds,
Source: Technorati - User Experience
Categories: User Experience
05:41
Technological Change: Its Impact on Usability
The Web has changed drastically since it started as a collection of physics papers in 1991. The first two years, it was a small type-only hypertext system used by a bunch of researchers, but in 1993 the first major GUI to the Web was introduced with the Mosaic browser. Our research into users' interaction with Web sites and intranets has continued as the Web has evolved through generations of technologyfrom the gray pages in Mosaic through the colorful pages with table-based layout in Netscape t
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05:24
My MIX 08 Recap
My MIX 08 Recap Category: Development | Web 9 Mar 2008 Well, I just got back yesterday from my first MIX experience and wanted to write up a recap of the event.  Everyone likely came to MIX from a slightly different place, with slightly different expectations, and left with there own feelings on the event.  For me, it was a good overall event.  It really comes down to 3 things for me.  People, Passion, and Content. I came to MIX knowing almost no one there.  I can honestly say I saw only
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05:17
With Apture, Hyperlinks Get Rich Media
This past weekend I met Tristan Harris, a Stanford dropout to talk about his start-up, Apture that has developed a cool new way to add rich media experience to web content in a simple and easy to use manner. Founded in July 2007, the San Mateo, Calif-based company was started by Harris and three others, and has remained in stealth since, but is now announcing the beta availability of its technology that has been adopted by Washington Post for its website and some of its blogs. So how does it
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05:16
The Web User Experience : Search Dominance
When we let users loose to go anywhere they wanted on the Web, they went to a search engine 88 percent of the time. Only in 12 percent of cases did they go straight to a Web site that they hoped would help them with their problem. For example, when the task was to research vacation travel to Mexico, only a few users went to a travel site that they already knew and trusted, such as Expedia or Travelocity. The vast majority employed a search engine to help them find sites. The fact that search en
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05:04
How Well Do People Use the Web?
In the beginning, the question was whether people were even capable of using Web sites. Today the answer is "yes," at least most of the time. When we told people to go to a specific site in the user testing for this book, they completed their tasks successfully 66 percent of the time. Of course, they also failed 34 percent of the time, but on average people did succeed. There are more than a billion users on the Internet, so any site that has less than ten million customers (in other words,
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05:03
North Dakota State University Selects Millennium
(April 14, 2008). North Dakota State University Library in Fargo has selected the Millennium ILS to update their user experience and streamline staff workflows. The Library also selected the integrated My RSS Feeds and Feed Builder products to publish timely information to its users. NDSU library is replacing an Ex Libris Aleph 500 system and will be pilot-testing Millennium for the Online Dakota Information Network.
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04:59
Rails Interview: Michael Slater of BuildingWebApps.com
Rails Interview: Michael Slater of BuildingWebApps.com Tuesday 15 April 2008 @ 9:59 am For the past two years, RubyLearning has been promoting the Ruby language world-wide, by conducting its Free Online Ruby Programming Course. 1000s of participants have either completed or are in the process of completing the course. Most Ruby course participants have a plethora of questions related to the language; opportunities in Ruby; Ruby’s future; Rails etc. Satish Talim of RubyLearning talked to
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04:44
Search Engine Not Starting!
I'm working on a new information architecture for a transport-related website....
Source: Information Architececture BlogPulse
Categories: Information Architecture
04:31
links for 2008-04-15
What Do You Need to See? Dashboards vs. Scorecards The question as to the difference between dashboards and scorecards comes up constantly. The names ‘dashboard’ and ‘scorecard’ are well chosen with respect to their real-world usage. (tags: dashboards scorecards design implementation visualization bestpractices) Resource Manager to EdgeSight migration EdgeSight for XenApp enhances Resource Manager’s capabilities by capturing, aggregating and reporting on end-user and application experience a
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04:04
Early Bird for Melbourne and Canberra closes Thursday at midnight
Just a couple of days to go now to take advantage of our early bird pricing of $100 off Web Directions Government and User Experience. So, to get to either of these conferences for just $495 (including GST), fully catered, with wonderful speakers like Andy Budd, Robert Hoekman Jr and Jose Alonso, make sure you register by midnight Thursday (you can pay later, you just have to register by then). Registrations are going very well, so many thanks to all of you who have signed up already (and in c
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03:14
Day of .NET Presentation
For all of you in the Ohio area, I’ll be speaking at the Day of .NET on April 19th.  My topic will be “User Interface Design for Programmers.”  I will explain the basics of usability, information architecture, user experience, etc.  It will be focused on explaining the concepts to people who aren’t and don’t think like designers.  I’ll make the materials publicly available after the talk. As an aside, MS is doing good stuff listening to standards developers.  They are no longer “evil” in the s
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April 14, 2008

23:52
Google tackles child pornography
Search engine giant Google adapts technology to help track down predators who use the web to exploit children.
Source: BBC - technology
Categories: Technology