Month: April 2002

I had a wonderful time visiting the St. Petersburg, Florida area over the weekend! We had brunch on Sunday at the Don Ce Sar resort on St. Pete Beach.  We also had fun at the Melting Pot Saturday night.

Searchable history. I’m interested in the intersection of the web and desktop apps. One app I’d like to see is a search engine for pages that I’ve visited. I often want to go back to something but can’t remember where it was but I can remember what it was about. A Google search would turn… Continue reading Searchable history

From a klog apart: “About weblogs, Google could dive deep to deliver: “If you liked this post, you might also like…” “Based on your searches, here is your reading list for today.” “Here are eight other people who are searching for the same things you are. Would you like to meet them online? Would you… Continue reading a klog apart

Home Nets: Keeping Up With the Joneses “Home networking is evolving from being deployed only by technically-included early adopters and is starting to be deployed by virtually all segments of the population, according to survey results released Wednesday by In-Stat/MDR. The survey found that 42 percent of those who already have home networks said that… Continue reading Home Nets: Keeping Up With the Joneses

Taxonomy's Role in Content Management. Article in eContent discussing the role of taxonomies for classifying content in a CMS. Interesting observations about what makes a good taxonomy: A good taxonomy, according to Weinstein, is one in which content is distributed evenly across the classification scheme. “The depth of the taxonomy should be relatively uniform,” he… Continue reading Taxonomy's Role in Content Management

Interface design bad practices. In Anti-Simplification – How to Make Life Harder for Users, SAP Design Guild shows some examples of unnecessarily complicated, careless, and incomplete designs in order to illustrate the kind of mistakes to avoid in UI design. Thanks, CrocoLyle [ia/ – news for information architects]

I'm getting some push back on the BooksIsFree idea. First, Eric noted he was already thinking of doing something similar using Movable Type, especially after he found a tutorial for MT explaining how the author of What Do I Know “uses categories to automate the display of the Featured and Recent book reviews”. I still think… Continue reading BooksIsFree

Speaking of NetGens and two-way communications, Memo to Brands: Surrender: “Empowered viewers armed with digital video recorders are zapping through Academy Award speeches, opening credits, and thousands of TV commercials — giggling all the way. And that is only the beginning of the end, says Laurie Coots, chief marketing officer at TBWAChiatDay. Disruptive advertising is… Continue reading Memo to Brands: Surrender

Robots Make the Rounds To Ease Hospitals' Costs. “Whenever a new patient is admitted to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center here, a four-foot eight-inch talking robot rolls up to the nurses' station nearest to the patient's room, bringing doses of whatever drugs the doctor has ordered…. 'When you look at the nursing and pharmacy labor… Continue reading Robots Make the Rounds To Ease Hospitals' Costs

Apache 2.0 Goes Live. The Apache Group Saturday capped three years of development and one year of beta with its release of the first generally available version of Apache 2.0. Key enhancements in Apache 2.0 include the capability to run Apache in a hybrid thread/process mode, support for filtered I/O, IPv6 support, and a new… Continue reading Apache 2.0 Goes Live