Archive for 2007
Internet Advertising News
NPR offered three stories over the past few weeks on Internet advertising that showed how tracking advertising and user preferences is causing both concern and new ways to research consumer data: Online advertisers are increasingly able to target individual Internet users. The major online advertising companies, DoubleClick and Atlas can track what ads have been displayed on your computer as well as whether or not you responded to that ad using cookies. They can establish what a certain computer (because it can’t tell users apart) likes and dislikes and target their ads accordingly instead... [read more]
Nov 15: Adobe’s Creative Suite 3
NEW TIME for this month’s meeting! This month we are meeting on Nov 15th from 2-3 pm in the N42 Demo Center. TOPIC Tim Plumer from Adobe will be coming to give us an overview of their Creative Suite 3 product. Adobe’s creative applications are designed to work create a workflow for your creative tasks. This workflow allows you to focus more on the creative aspect of your work while giving you more options for delivery. Whether you want to create for print, web, or mobile, you can do so easily with Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. This hour-long tech talk will highlight the features... [read more]
tiny url
I don’t know why, but this is one of my favorite things these days….from TinyURL.com: Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you’ve come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. [read more]
Seminar: Shaping the Age of User-Generated Content
Shaping the Age of User-Generated Content HCI Seminar Series Fall 2007 Speaker: Amy Bruckman Speaker Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology Host: Rob Miller Host Affiliation: MIT CSAIL Date: 11-2-2007 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Refreshments: 1:45 PM Location: Stata Center, Patil/Kiva Seminar Room G449 In the mid 1990s, we began to ask some hopeful questions about the potential of the Internet to empower the individual: Can the Internet help democratize the creation of content? Can users become creators of content, rather than merely recipients? What can people learn through working on... [read more]
Web 2.0 Design Patterns Book
The O’Reilly Web 2.0 Design Patterns Book by Duane Nickull, Dion Hinchcliffe, James Governor is out. It “which mixes in the Enterprise with the funky Web 2.0 crowd.” Watch James and Duane have a little chat about what the book is about and the tension between the enterprise world and the simple Web. Your browser does not support JavaScript. This media can be viewed at http://www.podtech.net/home/4420/web-20-design-patterns-the-book Thanks to Susan McPhee for this post idea! We miss you here at the ‘tute! [read more]
