Month: September 2001

User Interface Engineering: Driving Innovation and Creativity through Customer Data. Many designers understand that the need for customer input is invaluable, but they perceive the process to be too costly. Without the necessary customer involvement, designers end up developing products based on what designers believe customers need, rather than what they actually need. [Tomalak's Realm]

Why We Need Mozilla. Cafe con Leche: IE 6 ” Bottom line: any doubt that the IE team at Microsoft actually cares about standards has been erased. More than three years since XML 1.0 was released and almost two years after XSLT 1.0 was released, IE still does not correctly implement these specifications. Even though… Continue reading Why We Need Mozilla

Zope wins Web Tools Readers' Choice Award [Zope.org]

More Business (And Fun) Uses For Old Macs : Many of these ideas are useful in a business setting, while others are just plain fun. (The Business Mac via Applesurf) [Applesurf]

Business News from Wired News – Who's Reading Your Resume?. People who post their resumes on Monster.com, the world's largest job-seeking site, “face considerable threats to their privacy,” according to a watchdog group. In a 24-page report, The Privacy Foundation on Wednesday accused Monster of attempting to sell users' private data to marketers, failing to… Continue reading Wired News

David Hess: “With this application, you don't write your story chronologically, from beginning to end. You write your story one memory at a time. The application takes care of inserting the memory on your 'memory map' based on the date it took place.” [Scripting News]

Open source and reputation. I recently received an email from a reader of my book, asking about the licensing terms of the book. Here's an excerpt. [diveintomark]

Doc Searls: Whose side is TiVo on? The money behind TiVo is glad to buy TV ads showing viewers throwing TV executives out the window, but TiVo will never install anything that poses a threat to the relationships between media and their real market partners: advertisers. And that's why it's doomed. [Tomalak's Realm]

Feds stop seeking Microsoft breakup. AP: “The Bush administration, reversing the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft, told the software manufacturer Thursday it no longer seeks to have the company broken up.”… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

That Darn Content. Sooner or later all site designers must accept the fact that their pages must contain content. (Either that, or they won't be designers long.) But long text blocks do not necessarily mean boring page displays. Wendy Peck shows you the difference. [WebReference News]