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Matt Review – Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development – Gareth Downes-Powell, Tim Green, Bruno Mairlot – Glasshaus I am stunned. Real deer in the headlights stuff here. I have gone through so many books in the years I have been in the business and edited about 12 of them. This has to be the best,… Continue reading Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development

Good Experience: Interview: Maryam Mohit, Amazon.com. We run a lot of tests in our usability lab, almost continuously. Project teams can request usability testing, and the usability team also goes out and tests stuff of interest. Or ideas to investigate might come from customer service e-mail, which is a really important source of information. [Tomalak's… Continue reading Interview: Maryam Mohit, Amazon.com

Slashdot | Your Rights Online – Verizon Sues to Stop Privacy Rules; Wants to Sell Call Data. Jake writes “Verizon has asked a federal court to stop state regulators from enforcing new privacy rules that would prohibit telephone companies from using or sharing details about customers' calling habits without permission. Verizon, which serves nearly 1… Continue reading Slashdot

Net Snippets. – “Net Snippets is a unique Internet information management tool designed to address the needs of researchers, students, information specialists and individuals who rely heavily on the Internet as an information source.” “Integrated into the browser, Net Snippets provides users for the first time with tools to clip, annotate, edit and manage information… Continue reading Net Snippets

Free search engine software.  Thunderstone Webinator.   All it takes to build a powerful knowledge sharing network: Weblog software:  Radio or Manila Search engine:  Thunderstone or the Google appliance News aggregator:  Radio [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Readers' Advisory for Blogs.  There seems to be a renewed increase in finding new sites of interest based on blogs and RSS. I really wish I had more time to play with all of these right now, but here's what I'm trying to track. I haven't had time to really look at it, but Dave… Continue reading Readers' Advisory for Blogs

Washington Post: Dyson Seeks to Amplify the Public's Voice in Internet Policy. In order to have a meaningful voice in policy decisions, the public must become more involved, working from within ICANN rather than having elected board members vote on policies a few times a year, Dyson said. [Tomalak's Realm]

Simple PayPal buttons: This caught my eye… Paul Davis offers a Dreamweaver extension which just makes a variety of PayPal buttons. If you have even a single gig which uses PayPal then the automated consistency alone is worth it. (See his full list of extensions here… includes commercial as well as free extensions.) [JD on… Continue reading Simple PayPal buttons:

Verizon enters the business services market for WLANs: Verizon will offer an extremely useful service for small to medium sized networks by installing wireless LANs at a reasonable price. The question is: are they hiring expertise or training installers?  [80211b News]

CNet.  “A last-minute addition to a proposal for a Department of Homeland Security would punish malicious hackers with life in prison.”  Basically, the bill to create the “Homeland Security” department (which from what I understand will employ 140,000 people after agencies are folded in), is turning into a catch all for everyone's pet security proposal. [John… Continue reading CNet