Make Me a Power User

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Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend 08/05/2002 10:45 PM
Every Web user should know how to exploit the features of the powerful Google.com search engine. Besides the news.google.com beta test site I've mentioned before, it also features a free but invaluable Google toolbar that you can download from google.com. It appears as a little search window in every browser session.

Becoming a Bluetooth Power User

Becoming a Bluetooth Power User 07/13/2004 06:47 PM
iPAQ News Jul 13 2004 10:43PM GMT

MSN Searchbox Power User Shortcuts

MSN Searchbox Power User Shortcuts 03/14/2005 05:15 PM
An MSN power searcher cheat sheet.

Power User: Here's a guide to finding
what's invisible on the Web

Power User: Here's a guide to finding
what's invisible on the Web 08/13/2002 05:08 PM
Many Web users know how to get the most out of the Google.com search engine or its up-and-coming rival, AllTheWeb.com. Also useful are metasearch engines such as Dogpile.com, Ixquick.com, Net-comber.com, Pandia.com and Search.com.

Connect with the power of Progress at
2004 African user conference

Connect with the power of Progress at
2004 African user conference 07/06/2004 11:18 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 7 2004 3:17AM GMT

Storage, Input, Other End-User Gadgets
Make CeBIT Noise

Storage, Input, Other End-User Gadgets
Make CeBIT Noise 03/19/2005 02:41 AM
eWeek Mar 18 2005 12:31AM GMT

How To Make A Power Mac G5 Cube

How To Make A Power Mac G5 Cube 04/23/2004 01:29 AM
Some assembly required.

How about we make space for new MeFi
members by shifting everyones user
number up 1?

How about we make space for new MeFi
members by shifting everyones user
number up 1? 12/07/2003 05:22 PM
W elcome to the Hotel Infinity! A narrative description of Cantor's ideas of infinity.

The total user experience: How to make
it positive in future wireless systems
and services

The total user experience: How to make
it positive in future wireless systems
and services 12/07/2003 08:20 AM

AstroAge aims to make Power Mac G5, G4
mobile

AstroAge aims to make Power Mac G5, G4
mobile 01/06/2004 12:52 AM
AstroAge has announced the Gboard5 and Gboard4 platforms, new products that help make the Power Mac G5 and G4 towers mobile...

Using Penguin Power To Make Microsoft
Cheaper

Using Penguin Power To Make Microsoft
Cheaper 02/17/2004 05:57 AM
A tech consultant who wrangled a 30% discount out of Microsoft by getting a government organization to just begin to explore what Linux could do for them is suggesting that everyo ne who wants a Microsoft discount start buying up Penguin related stuffed animals to redecorate their offices - so when the Microsoft folks come through they're encouraged to offer discounts as well. Of course, there are other reasons to explore Linux - such as to see if it's any better for what you need to do.

Jobs, Ive make music power list

Jobs, Ive make music power list 06/28/2004 06:56 AM
Music magazine Q's poll of music industry experts has placed Apple CEO Steve Jobs and iPod designer Jonathan Ives tied for second place in the top 100 most powerful people in music, notes The Sun, a UK newspaper...

A Business Information Publication
Standard and Google's Power to Make It
Happen

A Business Information Publication
Standard and Google's Power to Make It
Happen 08/30/2004 03:17 PM

It's time we extend the robots.txt concept to information about businesses.

First, let's take a quick detour into robots.txt for a second —

In order to tell a search engine how to spider a Web site (or not), webmasters can stick a text file called "robots.txt" in their root directory with information spiders can use. This works because it's useful and it's ridiculously simple — everyone sticks the same file, named the same thing, in the same place. It's so simple, it can't NOT work.

MT-Blacklist does the same thing. You can put your blacklist in a text file called "blacklist.txt" in the root of your site so people can see what you're blocking.

For the sake of standards, it is recommended that the file be named blacklist.txt and reside in the root directory of your website. The possible network effect here is certainly delicious.

This isn't complicated — stick the same info in the same place and people will know where to get it.

Okay, back to the point —

Lets make up an XML spec for information about your business. Like this:


<business_info>
  <name>Deane's House of Pancakes</name>
  <address>1600 Pennsylvania Ave</address>
  <tag_line>We make round, fluffy crap.</tag_line>
  <hours>
    <monday>
      <open>0900</open>
      <close>2200</close>< br />    </monday>
[etc]


Obviously, this is absurdly simple, but you get the idea. You could have fields for your business phone number, fax number, general email, directions on how to get to your office, stock ticker symbol, customer service phone number, etc. Essentially, anything anyone would want to know about your business and for which they would (1) have to look up on your Web site, or (2) make a phone call to your receptionist.

Now, lets all put this file in the root of our Web site and call it "info.xml." That way we all know where it is, and we can all retrieve it. Now, every business has a common URL pattern where a program can find easily digestable information about the business. It's not hard to imagine what we could do with this.

For instance, Outlook could parse the domain name of the email address of all your contacts, go looking for this file for each one, then store the information with the contact (refreshing it every 30 days or so).

Online white and yellow pages could have a field day with it — you just give them your URL, and all your information is self-updating. Search engines could present this information alongside search results for your company. Etc.

Of course, this only works if everyone does it. And here, my friends, is the one, single thing that would have to happen for everyone to do it: Google adopts it. That's it. If Google announced tomorrow that they were going to do something like this, and released the spec for it, we'd see info.xml files start to hit the Web within a few hours. We'd have massive saturation within a month.

Google is already pushing beyond search with localization results. They're nailing down addresses of sites they visit, then presenting them in graduated radii from the city center.

Why not eliminate the parsing step and just ask people to put their actual address in a file in a common location? And while they're at it, have them put a bunch more information there as well. Once search engines starting spidering and parsing this stuff, it's amazing the level of detail and accuracy you could get for online directories and other business information sources.

And, again, the only thing standing between this idea and reality, is Google. Google is such a juggernaut that they could — in the words of Jean Luc Picard — "make it so" just by announcing that they wanted to it to happen. Companies would fall all over themselves to deliver it. Like Microsoft, Google is in a position to drive standards simply by virtue of its position.

So, Google, snap to it. The world is waiting.

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Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

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HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable 09/11/2004 11:26 PM

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account 08/17/2004 09:19 PM

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname 05/15/2004 08:42 AM

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites 10/17/2002 08:03 AM

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Fast User Switching has been a popular Panther feature in my lab where several students share one computer. However, ocassionally a user forgets to log out, and I (logged in as Administrator) have not figured out how to log t...

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface

On Beyond Help: User Assistance and the
User Interface 09/09/2002 06:29 AM

Silicon Laboratories Enters the Power
Market with the World's Most Advanced
Digital Power Supply Controller; S

Silicon Laboratories Enters the Power
Market with the World's Most Advanced
Digital Power Supply Controller; S 04/18/2005 08:41 AM
Business Wire UK Apr 18 2005 12:26PM GMT

"MAKE: Blog: MAKE:DIYcast- our new
audio/podcast experiment!"

"MAKE: Blog: MAKE:DIYcast- our new
audio/podcast experiment!" 04/19/2005 08:36 AM

Toshiba Announces High Voltage DTMOS
Power MOSFET Using a Super Junction
Structure to Reduce Power Consumption

Toshiba Announces High Voltage DTMOS
Power MOSFET Using a Super Junction
Structure to Reduce Power Consumption 03/23/2005 04:52 AM
ZDNet India Mar 23 2005 9:24AM GMT

3rd-Party Power Book Power Adapters?

3rd-Party Power Book Power Adapters? 01/23/2004 02:18 PM

InterUnity Group announces new research
on Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS),
Power Conditioning, and Computer Related
Air Conditioning decisions.

InterUnity Group announces new research
on Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS),
Power Conditioning, and Computer Related
Air Conditioning decisions. 09/27/2004 02:32 AM
InterUnity Group has compiled interim findings on a ground breaking study about the key drivers of Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), Power Conditioning, and Computer Related Air Conditioning decisions. [PRWEB Sep 27, 2004]

Power Measurement on the Apple Power Mac
G5.

Power Measurement on the Apple Power Mac
G5. 07/21/2004 06:00 PM
Wes Felter, Tom Keller: Power Measurement on the Apple Power Mac G5. IBM Research Report RC23276, July 2004.

"I only have the power of having
people?s trust ? but that?s a lot of
power"

"I only have the power of having
people?s trust ? but that?s a lot of
power" 08/18/2004 08:35 PM

Trying to make Web services make sense

Trying to make Web services make sense 06/22/2004 07:29 AM
Multiple standards muddy the waters and keep customers from taking the Web services plunge.

Marilyn Snyder, Speaker, Author,
Trainer, Coach has Just Launched her New
Mastermind Power Coaching Program for
People who Want to Change Their Lives,
Set Goals, and Achieve Their Dreams - Go
to WealthEnlightenment.com for a Free
Power Coaching Session

Marilyn Snyder, Speaker, Author,
Trainer, Coach has Just Launched her New
Mastermind Power Coaching Program for
People who Want to Change Their Lives,
Set Goals, and Achieve Their Dreams - Go
to WealthEnlightenment.com for a Free
Power Coaching Session 06/20/2004 03:39 AM
Mastermind Power Coaching Program. Are you tired of wanting to change your life and not knowing how? Do you want to take your sales to the next level and need the tools? Mastermind Power Coaching is a one-on-one program that is helping people in change their lives for the better!Work with a coach/mentor who can help you identify what you need to change and then help you get there! [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

See what happens when you remove a Mac
from a Mac user and give him a PC and
take away a PC from a PC user and give
him a Mac

See what happens when you remove a Mac
from a Mac user and give him a PC and
take away a PC from a PC user and give
him a Mac 11/14/2003 06:59 AM
Windows Vs Apple .. (new window)

timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-8088-882668,00.html
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New Wi-Fi Tracker Pinpoints User, Device
Location > New Wi-Fi Tracker Pinpoints
User, Device Location > December 24,
2003

New Wi-Fi Tracker Pinpoints User, Device
Location > New Wi-Fi Tracker Pinpoints
User, Device Location > December 24,
2003 12/29/2003 06:06 AM
locate 802.11x WLAN users within a few feet .. :

techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20031224S0003
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The First New K5 User

The First New K5 User 07/15/2004 03:32 PM
A while after new user registration was closed I wrote this story about the last K5 user. As you might have noticed, new user registration has now re-opened. So someone out there must be the first new user ...

The Last K5 User

The Last K5 User 05/03/2004 05:28 AM
As we all know, new account creation on K5 is currently disabled. This got me thinking: someone out there must be the last K5 user.

"user/pass"

"user/pass" 05/20/2004 11:30 AM

User Engineering

User Engineering 05/28/2002 08:58 AM

User Experience MX

User Experience MX 03/13/2003 10:22 AM

The new Macromedia site is simple and clean and I like it, though I'm finding it takes me more steps to find things they used to have on the front page of their site. Granted, the home page used to be cluttered and offered 50 options of where to go.

The most interesting thing I found on the new site was their new commitment to user experience issues as a cornerstone of their business.

While I can picture the marketing team sipping lattes in their "war room" with a huge banner carrying their new slogan "great experiences build great businesses", it's refreshing to hear a major web firm (especially one known for reducing usability in the past *cough* skip intro *cough*) realize the importance of user experience on their bottom line.

Adap tive Path has been preaching this for the past couple years, but it's nice to see a major corporation listening.

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