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video conferencing for free
Video conferencing certainly has come along way. I recently found out about these three products – all free and with cross platform options – to rival my Mac’s iChatAV application. Adobe ConnectNow (code name “Brio” – hey, is it really a code name if a putz like me could find out what it was?) – I had to install a plug in to use it, which made me wonder how my invitees would feel – personally I hate installing third party plug ins that I will most likely never use again. This one let’s you display your desktop to whomever you invite to the... [read more]
Making Flash Content Accessible
Many thanks to all of you who attended last week’s presentation by Rich Callogero (MIT ATIC) and Kal Gieber (WGBH Interactive) on how to make Flash content accessible. Since there were so many questions for Kal and Rich, I’ve invited them to come back again in the Fall. In the meantime, Kal has given us his “Making Flash Accessible” presentation and some tips on making Flash accessible. [read more]
Search within Google’s Search Results
Hey when did Google search results start letting you search within a web site from their search results page? Check out this screen capture I made when looking up EDUCAUSE this afternoon… How cool is that? UPDATE: From the Google blog, 3/05/2008: Through experimentation, we found that presenting users with a search box as part of the result increases their likelihood of finding the exact page they are looking for. So over the past few days we have been testing, and today we have fully rolled out, a search box that appears within some of the search results themselves. This feature will... [read more]
The 2008 Gmail Appeal
The Email Standards Project reaches out to the Gmail team via this short video appeal, asking them to improve the email experience for both designers and readers alike: Email Standards Project – Gmail Grimaces from Mathew Patterson on Vimeo. Here at the Email Standards Project, we’ve heard from designers all over the world how frustrating it is that Gmail, the otherwise excellent webmail client, does such a disappointing job rendering HTML email… …It’s so close to being really great, and other webmail clients have already made it work. This video is a friendly attempt... [read more]
“Exhibit” info
Many thanks to David Huynh for a wonderful presentation on his work, “Exhibit.” For those of you unable to attend, you can read about David’s work online at http://people.csail.mit.edu/dfhuynh/research/papers/www2007-exhibit.pdf. Our next meeting is May 22. Look forward to seeing you there! [read more]
