Privacy News from Wired News – MS Passport: Straight to the FTC. Microsoft's Passport is no friend to the consumer who values his privacy, especially now that it's so integrated into XP. That's the concern of privacy advocates who are complaining to the U.S. government. In the new filing, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Junkbusters… Continue reading Wired News
John Robb
John Robb – NewNetworks Institute: The RBOCs (local phone companies) caused the recent tech recession. This is true. IF the RBOCs had adopted i-mode's approach this killer tech recession would have been averted. “In fact, through this fiber-optic fiasco, the Bell companies have become some of the most profitable companies in America — outpacing the… Continue reading
interviewed
I was interviewed by WebWord.com: “If your software is going to be popular, you are going to have to deal with a million other things: writing manuals, creating good looking icons if you have a GUI, testing, recruiting good programmers, making a product that people want, usability testing, dealing with Norman the Cranky Tester, and… Continue reading interviewed
Jon Honeyball speculates on .NET's direction
Jon Honeyball speculates on .NET's direction. As I have been postulating for a while in my columns in PC Pro, Microsoft needs to complete its storage story. It has too many ways of storing relatively similar items, and a simplification is long overdue. This is coming, and it lays the roadmap for the major changes… Continue reading Jon Honeyball speculates on .NET's direction
Building an Extensible Menu Class
Building an Extensible Menu Class. Now, you may not know this, but my favourite language and yours, PHP, comes with some pretty powerful OOP capabilities. And over the course of this article, I'm going to demonstrate some of them by building an object to address a very common task – generating a menu tree on… Continue reading Building an Extensible Menu Class
Microsoft Stalls for More Time:
Microsoft Stalls for More Time: It will come as a huge surprise that Microsoft wants the U.S. appeals court to wait before sending the case back to the district court for hearings on remedies for its monopolistic practices. Nor will anyone be amazed by the gall evident in this legal filing. “If the Supreme Court… Continue reading Microsoft Stalls for More Time:
Jogger
Jogger is a Jabber-powered weblog system. [Scripting News]
WSJ
WSJ: “A few dot-coms are actually making money.” [Scripting News]
First Rule of Usability: Don't Listen to Users
First Rule of Usability: Don't Listen to Users. Jakob Nielsen's latest Alertbox column hits the nail on the head (again). “Say, for example, that 50% of survey respondents claim they would buy more from e-commerce sites that offer 3D product views. Does this mean you should rush to implement 3D on your site? No. It… Continue reading First Rule of Usability: Don't Listen to Users
Web Standards Project:
Web Standards Project: “All we've asked Macromedia to do is ship Dreamweaver with the ability to create standards-compliant pages. It can't be that difficult; as you've seen, the technology is already there.”