Month: October 2003

Useit.Com: Ten Best Intranets of 2003. North Tyneside College provides the ultimate proof that good intranets depend more on will, talent, clarity of mission, and commitment to usability than it does on having lavish funding. This winning intranet, which supports 300 staff and 15,000 students, was designed and developed by a single person… [Tomalak's Realm]

Adaptive Path: User Expectations in a World of Smart Devices. This kind of intelligence is already starting to leak into mainstream products, and I bet that designers will have to think about it seriously within the next five years. Perhaps the biggest change for user-experience designers will be a user's subsequent disregard for predictability. [Tomalak's… Continue reading User Expectations in a World of Smart Devices

Mozilla site re-designed with TopStyle. Earlier today I mentioned that Dave Shea is responsible for the Mozilla site re-design, and it turns out that he used TopStyle to do it 🙂  [Nick Bradbury]

The Innovator's Solution. A review of Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor's important new book, along with a discussion of how it relates to blogging. [Dan Bricklin's Log]

The beauty of iTunes for Windows is only skin-deep. As Rob Fahrni pointed out, Apple has released a Windows version of iTunes.  With typical showmanship, Steve Jobs declared that “Hell froze over” and that “iTunes is the best Windows app ever written” because, according to Jobs, it looks and feels exactly like a Mac app. … Continue reading The beauty of iTunes for Windows is only skin-deep

State of Florida Outsources its Web Portal. From the USA Today: “The State Technology Office is privatizing several of its functions, including the MyFlorida Web site and maintenance of the state's technology systems.” [beSpacific]

Text Mining: Making Connections to Help People & Business. Great article in NYTimes (free registrated required) related to information retrieval, categorization/classification, and use. “Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom” Marti Hearst is quoted regarding information vizualization, text mining, and such. Most of the focus was on retrieval in homogenous content such as Medline. The reason why… Continue reading Text Mining: Making Connections to Help People & Business

Apple: iTunes, iPod Updates. Apple offers iTunes for Windows, with iPod Software 2.1 and a revamped iTunes Music Store, while Belkin accessories enable iPod voice recording and read media cards. Then there are the promotional deals…. [MacInTouch]

Bittersweet Celebrations for a Pope and His 25-Year Reign. Pope John Paul II today marked a milestone that drew scores of cardinals and tens of thousands of worshipers. By Frank Bruni. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

In the aggregators session on Day 2 at BloggerCon I promised Jenny Levine that I would write up my plan to empower librarians and scholars to build distributed Yahoo-like directories, with the key ingredient that makes the Web work so well — competition. The idea is for geeks and librarians to work together, a dream… Continue reading Untitled