Author: Vince Kimball

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

Markoff: “Mr. Wozniak described WozNet as a simple and inexpensive wireless network that uses radio signals and global positioning satellite data to keep track of a cluster of inexpensive tags within a one- or two-mile radius of each base station.” [Scripting News]

Inc.com redesigns with standards. Another business website has redesigned with web standards. Inc.com's table-free CSS layout and XHTML structure cut page weight by over 50% in the markup alone. Over 11,000 pages were cleaned up and validated. Dan Cederholm of SimpleBits and the Fast Company/Inc. internal web team supervised the redesign and provides a brief… Continue reading Inc.com redesigns with standards

Amazon Plan Would Allow Searching Texts of Many Books. Amazon.com is negotiating with book publishers to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of thousands of nonfiction books. By David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Books]

Safety first?. US auto fatalities are at a 12-year high. Eighty percent of the increase since 2001 is due to rollover accidents. The rollover rate for SUVs is three times higher than for cars. You do the math. Millions of Americans buy these things because the think they are safer. Our government policies create huge… Continue reading 12-year high

Wired.  The business of weblogging for bucks.  More on the way for the Weblog Network now that I have my weblog back up.  “Niche, niche and niche, that's the name of the game. You can't just start a site/blog just because you love it, and there are 1,000 other sites like that out there. Unless… Continue reading Wired

Canning spam. Spontaneous end-to-end communication used to be the Internet's magic ingredient. But scarcity of IPv4 address space and legions of vandals resulted in NATs and firewalls. Now, unfiltered end-to-end communication happens, for the most part, by invitation only. Until recently, the lone exception was e-mail. You didn't need permission to contact someone by e-mail,… Continue reading Canning spam

John Robb is back. John Robb is back, located now at MindPlex.org. [via Bryan Strawser][tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]