Draft: MetaWeblog API Spec. This is the unified spec, ready for developer review. Includes a provision for appkey transmission to meet one of the objections Google has with using the API with Blogger. Now is the time to review the spec for errors, things that aren't clear, omissions, deal-stoppers, but not for religious purity. I'd… Continue reading Untitled
Month: August 2003
Report Review: Nielsen/Norman Group's Usability Return on Investment
Boxes & Arrows: Report Review: Nielsen/Norman Group's Usability Return on Investment Peter Merholz and Scott Hirsch. simply, the authors do not make a strong business case for usability–a requirement for passing the muster with the accountants and senior managers who have ultimate accountability for profit and loss in a business. [Tomalak's Realm]
Light on the horizon
The Economist: Light on the horizon. The first commercial holographic memory should be on the market next year, and more are expected to follow. When that happens, there may be a ballooning of computer storage capacity that will make existing disks look like leaflets compared with the Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Tomalak's Realm]
End of the road for SMTP?
News.Com: End of the road for SMTP? In other words, SMTP trusts too much–and that has spam foes, security mavens and even an original architect of today's e-mail system agitating for an overhaul, if not an outright replacement, of the omnipresent protocol. [Tomalak's Realm]
Report: File Servers
Report: File Servers. several low-cost file-server options, and their limitations [MacInTouch]
Intelligent Information Gathering
Intelligent Information Gathering. Robin Good's Mini Guide: Become a NewsG-d: How to be the first one to know everything about anything – Intelligent Information Agents Come of Age …. [beSpacific]
oTimer 0.2b1
oTimer 0.2b1. oTimer is a little app I just wrote to place timers on my to do lists. (I keep my to do lists in OmniOutliner.) After a task is complete it will block out the time spent on the task in iCal. Should make filling out time sheets and producing invoices easier … [Designweenie]
NEWS.COM
CNET NEWS.COM – Hackers look to hide communications. Hackers intent on anonymously sending data across the Internet have a new tool. A program called NCovert uses spoofing techniques to hide the source of communications and the data that travels over the network–a potential boon to both privacy advocates and hackers, said Mark Lovelace, senior security… Continue reading NEWS.COM
Data Dump Required Before Flights
Data Dump Required Before Flights. The Transportation Security Administration outlines new requirements for passengers planning to board airplanes. CAPPS II will require every would-be flier to submit personal information, which will be checked against multiple databases. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
In Search of Stupidity
In Search of Stupidity. In every high tech company I've known, there's a war going on, between the geeks and the suits. Read all about it in my foreword to Rick Chapman's excellent new book, In Search of Stupidity. [Joel on Software]