Month: October 2003

Posting to TypePad from FeedDemon. Glenn Slaven describes how to post to TypePad from FeedDemon. Great tip, Glenn!  [Nick Bradbury]

Apple's Knowledge Navigator revisited.  During my session at BloggerCon I referred to Apple's famous Knowledge Navigator concept video. I first saw that video in 1988. Today I tracked down a copy and watched it again. It stands the test of time rather well! Certain elements of that vision are now routine — for example, Google… Continue reading Apple's Knowledge Navigator revisited

Amazon Full-Text Book Searching. Well, this is rather cool, wouldn't you say? A significant extension of our groundbreaking Look Inside the Book feature, Search Inside the Book allows you to search millions of pages to find exactly the book you want to buy. Now instead of just displaying books whose title, author, or publisher-provided keywords… Continue reading Amazon Full-Text Book Searching

The MSDN Longhorn Dev Center is now open. Tons of info about Longhorn.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Xcode. As a developer, the thing about Panther that most excites me is Xcode. It’s a major update to the developer tools. Here’s James Duncan Davidson on this topic: Ten Things I Dig About Xcode. I upgraded to Panther yesterday; today I’m working on getting my various apps and frameworks to build on Xcode. [inessential.com]

Microsoft developers' conferences. Waiting for Longhorn I love attending Microsoft developers' conferences.  Probably for reasons you haven't thought of: (1)   I am nearly anonymous.  I might get recognized by the occasional vendor, Microsoft manager, or press person, but most of the developers won't have a clue who I am.  This makes it easy to get… Continue reading Microsoft developers' conferences

TypePad's gone all personal(ized). Awesome! After promising it as one of the upselling features of the Pro- and Plus-level accounts, Six Apart has delivered TypePad's domain mapping feature. (You can see it in action at alaina.org.) Now, maybe it's time to convert this entire website over to TypePad… something to think about, indeed. At least… Continue reading TypePad's gone all personal(ized)

Dartmouth's wireless wonderland. Over at VentureBlog, Naval Ravikant wrote up his experience using Dartmouth's amazing wireless network. Wired ran a piece last October about the university's plans to build out a universally-available, open network that encourages both educational use and recreational tinkering, and from Naval's piece, it looks as if it's working. Students are using… Continue reading Dartmouth's wireless wonderland

Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites. “Not long ago, I found myself at a newspaper with a Web team who wanted my usability services for a new entertainment site they were building. Our first meeting involved a spirited discussion about the site the team had long envisioned. As the talk of this… Continue reading Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites

Ancient World Mapping Center. “The Ancient World Mapping Center exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies. The staff and affiliates of the Center work to advance the study of the ancient world through innovative and collaborative research, teaching, and community outreach activities using cartography, geographic… Continue reading Ancient World Mapping Center