Month: July 2003

Update: Hydra 1.1.1. The Rendezvous-based, collaborative text editor gains a “Safari-powered live-updated HTML preview.” [MacInTouch]

MIT Technology Review: Don't Break E-Mail To Save It. Vipul Ved Prakash, founder and chief scientist for Cloudmark. My perspective on design of spam filtration solutions is centered around exploitation of the various constraints of the spammer. One thing we don't talk about enough is the fact that spammers have rather serious constraints. [Tomalak's Realm]

Need a disposable email address so you can sign up for some web site, quick? You've already got one, at Paul Tyma's clever Mailinator. “Just send an email to any address @mailinator.com. Your email address already exists. Get your email sent here, THEN come check mailinator. Your mail will be waiting.” More proof that great… Continue reading Mailinator

The Best Article Your Lawyer Probably Won't Be Reading. From Larry Bodine's Law Marketing Blog – Larry posts about a videotape documenting a focus group in which business clients of lawyers were asked a variety of question about their law firms. Larry delivers the quotes, which will give you a good overview of the current… Continue reading The Best Article Your Lawyer Probably Won't Be Reading

Thread of the Day. Thread of the Day: In macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev, a site designer solicits tips on dealing with a client who has so many change-requests that the project no longer hangs together. “Everytime I try and write them a letter explaining why the current… [JD on MX]

Fusebox 4 Released!. The Fusebox website has announced the final release of Fusebox 4. Documentation is still being prepared and the main Fusebox website has yet to be fully updated but you can download the official core files and some example applications from… [An Architect's View]

Death Is a Sloppy Business. Producing death certificates in New York is a bureaucratic nightmare fraught with errors. A plan to do it electronically is going nowhere, so the job is still being done on paper, and often carelessly. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

Good Experience: Top Sites' User Experience Teams and Their Challenge. Across all of those companies, the issues were strikingly similar. Despite the different business models – e-commerce, content, software development, search, etc. – team after team recited the same few issues that they are now trying to address. [Tomalak's Realm]

Knowledge is Power: KM Remains Vital to Firm Success [LLRX.com]

Shirky on on-line Groups. I finally got around to reading Clay's A Group Is Its Own Worse Enemy piece. And I'm still not done. But I can already tell he's done a very good job of explaining what's revolutionary about all this stuff (blog, wikis, instant messaging) that many of us take for granted. It… Continue reading Shirky on on-line Groups