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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]
100 blogs regarding usability topics
VirutalHosting.com has put out a list of what they think are the top 100 blogs on user-centered discussions. Web designers often concern themselves with optimizing sites for spiders from Google, Yahoo, and other search engines, but pay little attention to creating sites that real people can use. This problem has sparked a movement towards user-centered web design, a topic that covers accessibility, web standards, and interfacing. Check out these blogs for the latest and greatest in this people-centric field of design Thanks to Michael Dutton of IS&T’s Usability Lab for this post idea! [read more]
mobile web site rant…
I’ve taken to surfing the web on my blackberry before falling asleep at night, and I have to say I’m getting really frustrated with mobile websites. Yes, I’m grateful that they exist BUT does their navigation and content on home pages really need to be so sparse? I’ve read that the Boston Globe’s mobile site has gotten rave reviews, but am I the only one that thinks its lame to get three to four headlines and a link that says “more?” Jumping through all those links to get to content is a battery and time killer. I find myself doing more and more Google... [read more]
