Month: April 2003

Planning A Website With Punch. Bruce MacEwen's National Law Journal article on markeing with law firm web sites looks good at the recently upgraded Law.com's site. [via My Shingle] [net.law.blog]

On Patching.  Bob at Wise Solutions emailed to remind me that the Wise Installation System has patching built in, and costs less than InstallShield plus vBuild. He also pointed out that Wise for Windows Installer now has a ton of features for server setups: user account creation, IIS administration, and SQL Server administration… basically they… Continue reading On Patching

Hydra: Collaborative Text Editor. I picked this up from my comments on the Social Software post.  Hydra is an OSX-based text editor that uses Rendezvous protocols to facilitate real-time collaborative coding.  It's from a dev team (Coding Monkeys) out of Germany.  Real-time apps continue to excite and impress, and it's great to see different approaches —… Continue reading Hydra: Collaborative Text Editor

'The Geography of Thought': East Brain, West Brain. Michigan, Nisbett, a social psychologist, concludes that there are major differences between the modes of thought of “Asian” and “Western” people. By Sherry Ortner. [New York Times: Books]

Semantic Studios: Trust by Design. Peter Morville. In recent months, I've become a big fan of the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab and the Web Credibility Project. Their studies regarding how people evaluate a web site's credibility show the critical importance of information design and structure. [Tomalak's Realm]

Look what Don Norman hath wrought! Information appliances!. Philips iPronto Does It with Linux [Slashdot] In addition to providing a traditional infrared interface, the iPronto also implements Wi-Fi (802.11b) wireless connectivity and even an Ethernet port for LAN or broadband Internet access. There's also a USB port as well as an MMC/SD card slot for… Continue reading Look what Don Norman hath wrought! Information appliances!

ENT Solution #3. myRadio supports ENT 1.0. My supports Announcing the release of ENT 1.0 (Easy News Topics) support in myRadio. One of the stated goals of ENT is to “represent topics sufficiently that they be useful in enabling smart aggregators (e.g. filtering, recombining feeds, etc…)”. RSS+ENT feeds can be filtered in myRadio, by selecting… Continue reading ENT Solution #3

Marriott Launches April 26. A little birdie leaked to me that Marriott is geared up for an April 26 hot spot launch: This is part of STSN's Intel Capital-funded rush to push out access now instead of gradually. The cost is $10 per day with discounts of up to 50 percent negotiated for large groups.… Continue reading Marriott Launches April 26

One Chip Wi-Fi. Via to offer one-chip Wi-Fi: It's not precisely the holy grail, but putting Wi-Fi's radio, baseband processor, and MAC on a single chip does reduce power consumption, signal loss, and physical space, not to mention manufacturing processes. Gigabit Ethernet continues to pace Wi-Fi: both are benefitting from enormous competition, and have become… Continue reading One Chip Wi-Fi

Cisco Wi-Fi Phone. Cisco to ship Wi-Fi cordless phone in June: The Cisco phone requires some kind of PBX (phone exchange), but it's unclear from any of the articles I've read whether there's a gateway box you need to interface with specific PBX models. Cisco might later release a version of the phone that does… Continue reading Cisco Wi-Fi Phone