Reviving Advanced Hypertext (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

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Ten Best Government Intranets (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)

Ten Best Government Intranets (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox) 06/21/2004 03:45 PM
ten best government intranets .. the article .. Alertbox

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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003
(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003
(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) 12/23/2003 12:27 AM

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Why Mobile Phones are Annoying (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)

Why Mobile Phones are Annoying (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox) 04/13/2004 04:55 AM
Cell phone conversations in public places annoy people .. Why Mobile Phones are Annoying .. Jakob Nielsen

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Thirty Years With Computers (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)

Thirty Years With Computers (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox) 05/25/2004 04:04 AM
Thirty Years With Computers (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) .. more

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Most Hated Advertising Techniques (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)

Most Hated Advertising Techniques (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox) 01/06/2005 11:56 AM
Most Hated Advertising Techniques (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) .. - .. Quote:

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"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)"

"Why Mobile Phones are Annoying (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)" 04/14/2004 09:03 AM

"Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003
(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)"

"Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003
(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)" 12/22/2003 04:17 PM

Design Guidelines for Visualizing Links
(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Design Guidelines for Visualizing Links
(Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) 05/11/2004 02:22 AM
Design Guidelines for Visualizing Links (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) .. š ‚Œ ‹ ‚

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Change the Color of Visited Links (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)

Change the Color of Visited Links (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox) 05/04/2004 02:33 AM
03 May : Change the Color of Visited Links (Jakob Nielsen) .. this time about visited links .. explains

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Ten Most Violated Homepage Design
Guidelines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Ten Most Violated Homepage Design
Guidelines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) 11/11/2003 07:06 AM
The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines .. Alertbox entry from Jakob Nielsen .. full his interesting essay .. advice .. list

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Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The
Ideologies of Web Design (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox)

Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The
Ideologies of Web Design (Jakob
Nielsen's Alertbox) 08/30/2004 08:53 PM
Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design .. Jakob Nielsen's latest essay

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When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) 08/18/2004 10:40 AM
When Search Engines Become Answer Engines .. Jacob Nielsen's Alertbox

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Jakob Nielsen's remotes are out of
control.

Jakob Nielsen's remotes are out of
control. 06/09/2004 08:48 PM
Jakob Nielsen's remotes are out of control. I bought the Sony universal remote with the most buttons I could find, and yet it still doesn't have enough buttons to properly control a Sony DVD player (it's missing the prev/next chapter buttons). So you don't even need multi-vendor equipment to suffer from problems.

Reviving BitTorrent

Reviving BitTorrent 01/06/2005 12:27 AM
CNET Asia Jan 6 2005 4:47AM GMT

Reviving a Magazine With Ballast of a
Web Site First

Reviving a Magazine With Ballast of a
Web Site First 04/11/2005 04:09 AM
Radar magazine, which folded two years ago and is being revived in May, is taking the unusual step of starting a Web site before publishing the magazine.

Guggenheim Reviving Its Main Asset:
Itself

Guggenheim Reviving Its Main Asset:
Itself 06/09/2004 10:34 PM
After 45 years the Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright's soaring spiral that has become one of Manhattan's greatest tourist attractions, will undergo a major facelift.

Reviving Acquired Startups Suffering
Inside Big Companies

Reviving Acquired Startups Suffering
Inside Big Companies 05/17/2004 03:04 AM
There are so many stories of big companies buying startups for lots of money, and then realizing they don't really have a need for the startup. In a few cases, the company's former management team will buy back the startup, but it's a fairly difficult move. There is even the occasional story where startups selling out to larger companies have been able to write in buyback terms - but it doesn't happen very often. However, realizing that this situation happens more often than people like to admit, a new VC fund has been formed to help buy former startups out of the larger companies that acquired them. Basically, these VCs have found an undervalued market. The current owners want out, while the startups are already (somewhat) proven with a known product and known market - which just isn't getting the attention it deserves or needs. Should be interesting to see what comes out of these once again startups.

Alertbox #200

Alertbox #200 10/29/2003 12:12 AM

Reviving The Internet Tax Ban, Reviewing
Google's Chastity Belt, and More Belts
and Boilermakers in Cyberspace

Reviving The Internet Tax Ban, Reviewing
Google's Chastity Belt, and More Belts
and Boilermakers in Cyberspace 04/23/2004 09:45 PM
AVN Online Apr 24 2004 1:40AM GMT

Hello, hypertext!

Hello, hypertext! 04/09/2004 04:06 PM

Former NY Times restaurant critics William Grimes and Ruth Reichl select eateries for A Quick Guide to the Best Restaurants in New York. Handy, but why aren't these restaurant names linked to the Times' reviews?

The Return of XML Hypertext

The Return of XML Hypertext 01/22/2003 07:41 PM
Kendall Clark reports on the creation of a new mailing list focused on the use of XML for hypertext.

HyperText 2004

HyperText 2004 07/13/2004 11:54 AM
The Association for Computing Machinery is having a conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia next month, and asked me to speak about the evolution of journalism in the Digital Age. Here's the homepage of Hypertext 2004 for details on the conference.

Ted Nelson on the Web as Hypertext

Ted Nelson on the Web as Hypertext 06/05/2002 07:50 AM
The Web isn't hypertext, it's DECORATED DIRECTORIES! What we have instead is the vacuous victory of typesetters over authors, and the most trivial form of hypertext that could have been imagined.

"tri" Ted Nelson is one of the inventors of hypertext.

"zeldman.bog"

Hypertext Fiction

Hypertext Fiction 04/25/2004 11:01 AM
Howard S. Becker: A New Art Form: Hypertext Fiction

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PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 07/14/2004 06:45 AM
PHP †‡ 5 …†ͺ .. PHP is a programing language .. scripting powered by php .. PHP official site .. PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 .. mod_php4 .. PHP4.2.1 .. PHPPHP .. php; .. code .. sito .. PHP4 .. web

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The History of Hypertext

The History of Hypertext 09/23/2002 05:28 AM

Hypertext Time Protocol 0.9.1

Hypertext Time Protocol 0.9.1 08/27/2004 08:55 PM
A tool for time synchronization with Web servers.

htc-py HyperText Converter for Python

htc-py HyperText Converter for Python 06/24/2004 09:38 AM
htc-py 0.1.5 released

SemText - Semantic HyperText

SemText - Semantic HyperText 04/21/2004 06:04 AM
SemText - Semantic Hypertext - Making Latent Semantics Blatant
http://semtext.org/

Human languages allow you to express meaning in text for other humans to read. Semantic Web technologies let you express the meaning of data in a computer-readable form. SemText is a community-oriented project that aims to help bridge the gap. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research Resources section of the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

A Hypertext History of Instructional
Design

A Hypertext History of Instructional
Design 10/02/2002 08:52 AM

The Importance of the Hypertext Document
Title

The Importance of the Hypertext Document
Title 04/17/2004 03:30 AM
WebmasterBase Apr 17 2004 7:49AM GMT

In tha hizzie of fine hypertext products

In tha hizzie of fine hypertext products 04/15/2005 10:07 AM

HTTP in tha House takes the text from a URL and constructs a rhyme out of it. Here's what it spit out for kottke.org this morning:

vs commission
i'm in fission
been asking and
have made bland
flat out fantastic
what a drastic
purchase a movie on dvd
basically done ghee

since u been
study tall slender chagrin
rates of whites go
women who had a low
lines more than
d levitt stephen plan
fake restaurant quot
plasticbag a glee

WWW DOT KOTTKE DOT ORG IN THA HOUSE
WWW DOT KOTTKE DOT ORG IN THA HOUSE
WWW DOT KOTTKE DOT ORG IN THA HOUSE
WWW DOT KOTTKE DOT ORG

See also old school kottke.org content Straight Outta .Compton, a collection of rhymes inspired by the dot com boom:

i'm gonna touch your audience, touch them down below
wave our space inter-face 'til your eyeballs glow
stick my vortal in your portal and suck your paradigm
we're a reinvented army whose gonna revolutionise

Shout out to my homie Sean for emizzailing the HTTP in tha House link.

xml-hypertext mailing list at
xmlhack.com

xml-hypertext mailing list at
xmlhack.com 01/16/2003 04:14 PM
xmlhack.com has started a new mailing list: xml-hypertext, "an open forum for the discussion of creating hypertext with XML. Appropriate subjects include technologies for linking and pointing, hypertext-oriented transformations, and interactions between XML and Web infrastructure."

Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and
Why

Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and
Why 10/09/2002 03:40 AM

Interview - Jakob Neilsen, Ph.D

Interview - Jakob Neilsen, Ph.D 11/05/2002 10:20 PM
WebmasterBase Nov 5 2002 9:11PM ET

Jakob Nielson on Search

Jakob Nielson on Search 07/15/2004 10:09 PM

Time for a Redesign: Dr. Jakob Nielsen: Here's a good interview with Jakob Nielsen about general Web usability in which he has some strong words about the state of search and information design.

[...] the individual pages, or units of information, are typically poorly described in terms of things like the headline and the summaries, which is all people have to choose from when they get the search-results listing. So if there was just one thing we could fix on the Web, and for intranets as well, I would say let's fix search; that's still the number one single thing that's causing people problems.

The second thing that's causing the most problems is information architecture [...]

And I'll just mention one glaring mistake that most companies make: They divide up their networks or Web sites between products and supplies and service. [...] For a customer, however, if I have a certain copier, let's say the X17 copier, and I want toner for that machine, or I want to get it serviced — well, what I want is to go and find my copier and, once I find it, I want to get supplies for my copier, I want to get some trouble-shooting, self-service information.

I agree very much with what he says about search. I believe that a well-crafted and tuned search engine and interface trumps all else. If you set up the keywords right, and have a good interface, you can get away with that being your main way of getting users around your intranet.

I've even heard of situations where all index pages were just canned searches (but I won't mention any names...Joe).

I often thought that would be a handy way to go in a static HTML intranet: just generate all index pages as searches against a page's META tags, so page authors could add their own pages to the intranet's index pages based on what they put in the META. You could likewise order them by the a "date published" META tag. So long as your trust your page authors to be intelligent with their META, you're in good shape.

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Spanking Jakob Nielsen

Spanking Jakob Nielsen 11/11/2002 06:02 AM

Interview - Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D

Interview - Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D 11/06/2002 10:36 PM
WebmasterBase Nov 6 2002 8:47PM ET

Software Review: Hypertext Builder 2003

Software Review: Hypertext Builder 2003 06/02/2004 10:30 AM
As more and more Web sites are being coded with XHTML, a new generation of software editors are now XHTML-specific. One of those editors is Hypertext Builder 2003, a true XHTML editor. By Lee Underwood. 0602
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"Change the Color of Visited Links"

"Change the Color of Visited Links" 05/04/2004 05:02 PM

Should visited links get distinctive
styling?

Should visited links get distinctive
styling? 06/27/2004 03:23 AM
CNET Jun 27 2004 7:12AM GMT

CollyLogic: Ticked Off? Visited Links
How-To

CollyLogic: Ticked Off? Visited Links
How-To 05/23/2004 05:00 AM
An elegant way of displaying the difference between unvisited, visited and active links using CSS

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Weird color problem

Weird color problem 01/05/2005 10:26 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: (Click thumbnail for enlargement.) Anyone know why the body copy shows in gold in IE on OS X? It seems fine on Safari and Firefox. Please email me if you know the answer. (Also, thanks to everyone for your great design suggestions. As you can see, I've incorporated quite a few of them.)

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams.

At Long Last, a True Space Opera. Turing
Opera Workshop releases teaser trailer
for new 3d sci-fi opera, Kai, Death of
Dreams. 05/31/2004 02:13 PM
Scarborough, ME -- January 12, 2004 Turing Opera Workshop releases the first teaser trailer for their production of Richard deCostas 3d sci-fi opera, K'ai, Death of Dreams. The trailer, available on the production website, http://www.RicharddeCosta.com/KaiOpera, is a preview of the opera scheduled for release in February. The opera is being produced entirely in 3d computer graphics. [PRWEB Jan 13, 2004]

CPS: DAVE
POLLARD'S CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING
PROCESS

CPS: DAVE
POLLARD'S CREATIVE PROBLEM-SOLVING
PROCESS 12/28/2004 02:53 PM

In previous articles I've described the Innovation Process of gurus like Clay Christensen and Peter Drucker (and my own), and a process for tapping the Wisdom of Crowds. Since then, I've talked to several business leaders about these processes, and they suggested I integrate them together to create a Creative Problem-Solving Process. The diagram above is the first draft of this CPS process. It appears there may be as many as 12 steps in the process involved in solving problems or making critical decisions, whether in a business context or a broader social context. In most cases, many of these steps are side-stepped or short-circuited, often because the problem-solvers or decision-makers think they already have the information or perspective that doing them would provide. Perhaps this is why so many unimaginative solutions are developed and so many bad decisions are made? The process of solving problems, when it's undertaken thoroughly, can involve three different forms of interactivity (conversation, collaboration and canvassing), in engaging the energies of three different aggregations of people (individuals, teams, and 'crowds'). The following table summarizes the 12 steps, and the interactivity, methods, deliverables and some facilitation tools for each: Action Interactivity Methods Deliverables Some Tools A Teach Conversation Training Competencies Creativity Techniques, Collaboration Skills B. Listen Canvassing Continuous Scan, Intelligence-Gathering Identified Needs, Insights Environmental Scanning, Minto Fact-Based Research C. Understand Conversation Analysis Root Causes Root Cause Analysis, Fishbone Diagrams D. Organize Collaboration Coordination Solution Team, Improvisational Plan 'Getting Things Done', PKM, Improv E. Think Ahead Conversation Iteration Future State Visions Thinking-Ahead Process, Future-State Visioning F. Reach Out Canvassing Engagement Commitment, Attention, Status Quo Dissatisfaction 'ChangeThis' Manifestos G. Brainstorm Conversation, Collaboration Creation, Ideation Solution Alternatives, Innovation Culture Accelerated Solutions Environment H. Survey Canvassing Qualifying Collective Wisdom, Consensus Wisdom of Crowds process I. Design Collaboration Crafting Prototypes Rapid Prototyping, Natural Design J. Experiment Collaboration Parallel Processing Proof of Concept True Collaboration Training K. Challenge Collaboration Questioning, Critical Thinking Solution Qualification, Issues & Landmines Seven Thinking Hats L. Deploy Canvassing Offering Solutions Project Management, One-Step-at-a-Time Applying the process to a business problem: Nash Instruments makes digital thermometers and other medical instruments for hospitals. They manufacture in Mississippi, taking advantage of low labour costs, but foreign competitors manufacturing in China have undercut them. The company is on the verge of bankruptcy, and 300 employees are depending on Nash's ingenuity to reinvent their company to save their jobs. So we start by teaching the core Solution Team of Nash the process, and creativity techniques so they can imagine a successful future for their company, not limited to incremental improvements. Then, with the Solution Team, we canvass customers and end-users of the company's products and other similar instruments, and find out what untapped needs they have. We also study trends in the market, and scan across other industries, science, technologies, and nature, to surface new developments that might be adapted or applied to Nash's products, processes, platforms, technologies, supply chain or distribution channels, core competencies, customer experience, brand, service or community wrap-arounds, or business model. Perhaps we discover that what customers are most unhappy with is the poor quality, ambiguity and reliability of these instruments -- and that what customers want aren't cheaper instruments, but simpler, more durable, more accurate ones. That they are buying the cheap ones made in China only because none of them differentiate themselves in other ways. The third step is to analyze the root causes of the company's current predicament. We know from the previous step that price really isn't the differentiating factor that's hurting the company's sales, but why isn't the company, with its skilled, domestic workforce, able to produce a better product? And are there other aspects to the undifferentiated 'customer experience', such as service quality? Or a distribution or marketing problem? Or lack of product diversity or innovation? Suppose we discover that the root problems are that the company has compromised on materials quality to try to reduce cost, that it's slow to exploit new technologies, and that it has developed a reputation for unresponsive service. Once we know this, we refine the Solution Team, and develop the plan and timeline for solving the root problems.and meeting the untapped customer needs. Then we conduct Thinking-the-Customer-Ahead sessions, using an iterative 'what-if' process to enable some of Nash's most forward-thinking customers and potential customers to understand where their businesses, and instrumentation needs, are headed, which in turn allows Nash to craft a Future State Vision that satisfies those needs. Maybe we discover that the future of medical instrumentation is wireless, that displays are going to have to be flatter and sharper, that measurements in several medical technologies will need to be two orders of magnitude more precise, and that in some cases the tools will become so sophisticated that the instrument manufacturer will have to become part of the virtual medical team, on call 24/7 to assist in interpretation of the results. And then we reach out to the larger constituency, all current and potential customers and end-users, articulating the promise that Nash could deliver and fomenting dissatisfaction with the status quo, creating a sense of urgency in the minds of customers and end-users, articulating the unmet need, and also creating that sense of urgency in Nash's own people. Next we do the creative work of inventing or reinventing products, processes, platforms, technologies, channels, brands, and even business models, and growing the core competencies needed to deliver on them. But we don't put all our eggs in one basket: We develop a suite of alternative solutions. And then we use the Wisdom of Crowds process to present them to the 'crowd', as large a group of existing and potential customers and users and employees as possible, and use the crowd's collective intelligence to help us select the best of these alternatives before taking them to market. Nash's reputation is a problem -- trying to go upscale with a new generation of sophisticated, precise instruments will be a marketing nightmare. maybe a whole new division with a new name is needed? And should the company try to overcome its employees' near-total ignorance of how hospitals use its instruments, so they can offer virtual interpretation, or leave this niche to others? And should it overhaul its supply chain in favour of better-quality material suppliers, or even bring production of these materials in-house and cut out the middleman? Now, with the confidence that we have the optimal solutions, we can design working prototypes of these solutions, and we can collaboratively run parallel experiments with different implementations of these solutions, failing fast and inexpensively to winnow out the implementations that don't work in practice. How would wireless instruments avoid interference with, and from, other medical technologies in the operating room and on the patient's night-table. What different techniques can be used to increase read-out precision without a commensurate increase in equipment cost? And when medical instruments need to be made in two 'flavours', one for sophisticated hospital use and the other for patients to self-diagnose and self-monitor, how do the price points differ and how should functionality and ease-of-use be traded off? Should Nash even be in both markets? And then the implementations that succeed must pass the final hurdle, another collaborative process that encourages skeptical, critical thinking people in the organization to challenge whether this solution really is optimal, and unearth landmines and other problems the developers may not have thought about. Maybe the designers didn't consider that baby-boomer patients' eyes are weakening and the display in a new consumer product just isn't large enough? Or that one of the new suppliers of a critical material is in financial difficulty? Once the solutions have passed this final test, they're ready for launch. The launch of dramatically new products, processes and technologies is a difficult process, and if not done properly and quickly can make an enormously promising innovation into a production or market failure. The launch needs careful project management, using a rigorous, tightly-controlled, one-step-at-a-time process. It's all common sense. The reason it is so rarely used is that few organizations have the competencies to do more than two or three of the 12 steps effectively. I've worked on all 12 steps at one point or another in my career, and they are not easy to master, but when they're done well, they yield astonishing results. The answer, I think, isn't just to bring in consultants to facilitate the process and then breeze out again. Advisers need to teach businesspeople how to do this for themselves, and then steward them through the process a couple of times to ensure they follow it properly. In a world where innovation will soon again be recognized as the only sustainable competitive business advantage, learning this process may the most important education for tomorrow's business leaders. And there's no reason to believe this same process couldn't be used to effectively address broader social, economic and environmental problems as well. I'll explore that in a future article.

HELP COMPILE
"THE WEB USER'S ESSENTIAL LINKS AND FREE
DOWNLOADS" LIST

HELP COMPILE
"THE WEB USER'S ESSENTIAL LINKS AND FREE
DOWNLOADS" LIST 06/07/2004 02:25 PM

My Salon Blog colleague Ted Ritzer keeps a list of Useful Web Sites (for all web users, not just bloggers) originally compiled by Kevin Kelly, of Wired, The Well, and Whole Earth Catalog fame. Kevin no longer maintains his list, and instead has an intriguing Cool Tools site, but it's only for the rich -- virtually everything on the site costs money, often a lot of it. So Ted and I agreed it's time to update the Useful Web Sites list, and we need your help. What links and free downloads should every self-respecting Internet user have on their desktop? The list should not include pay sites, nor should it include news sites, blogs or other sites that appear on blogrolls (too many, and too subjective). Nor should it include highly specialized sites (I have a personal list of favourite genealogy sites, but I realize that few people would consider these 'essential'). To make the list manageable, I've identified 21 categories for the essential links (let me know if you think I've missed an entire category). If I get enough response, I'll publish a list of the Top 3 in each category and keep it on my sidebar or Spurl it (Spurl lets you keep your web bookmarks online and share them with others). The examples shown for each category are my personal favourites and some of them are eccentric, so they may not make the Top 3 list. Quite a few of them come from the excellent Jason Lefkowitz' Quality Software list (thanks to Internet Time for the link): Search engines -- e.g. Google Converters, voice recognition tools and translators -- e.g. Reverso Language Translation Internet browsing tools and aids -- e.g. Firefox browser, Xne ws newsreader Website composing and management tools -- e.g. HTML-Kit web page editor Publishing tools - e.g. PDFCreator Word processing and office productivity -- e.g. OpenOffice File and desktop management -- e.g. FilZip compression software, Furl digital filing cabinet Writing aids -- e.g. The 39 Steps, Rhymezone Reference tools -- e.g. IMDB movie & TV show database Music and book sellers -- e.g. FYE, CDBaby, McNally Robinson Consumer information -- e.g. CNet product reviews File sharing tools Internet streaming radio/video -- e.g. ShoutCast Connectivity and discussion tools -- e.g. Thunderbird e-mail, SightSpeed videoconferencing, Trillian IM and chat integrator, Skype VoIP Multimedia tools -- e.g. PhotoPl us image editor, IrfanView image viewer Website/RSS feed aggregation tools -- e.g. BlogLines site aggregator, Spurl online bookmarking Network/community builders and expertise finders Software download sites -- e.g. Download.com, Tucows Investment tools and information -- e.g. MLS real estate finder Electronic Payment and LETS tools Anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-spyware/adware utilities -- e.g. SpyBot anti-spyware What are your essential links and invaluable free downloads?

Opera Skinned & Opera Directory
Traversal (Additional Details & a Simple
Exploit)

Opera Skinned & Opera Directory
Traversal (Additional Details & a Simple
Exploit) 11/12/2003 01:14 PM
S G Masood (Nov 12 2003)

Opera Software Announces The Opera
Browser for Windows Mobile

Opera Software Announces The Opera
Browser for Windows Mobile 08/31/2004 08:29 PM
Opera announces intention to produce a version ofr Microsoft Windows Mobile Software.

Opera 7.50 preview and my Opera Journal

Opera 7.50 preview and my Opera Journal 12/23/2003 02:09 PM
A few days ago, Opera released an early Christmas Present for the avid group of people following the opera.beta newsgroup,...

Opera Releases Security Fix for Opera
6.x

Opera Releases Security Fix for Opera
6.x 03/20/2003 08:31 AM

My visited countries...

My visited countries... 03/06/2004 01:55 AM

I've visited seventeen countries so far (I'm sure I've left some out), and if I could remember the names of the places I went to in America I'd do the dedicated map for that too. But I can't. Why not play too: Create your own visited country map.

Synergy Re-visited

Synergy Re-visited 08/19/2004 09:03 PM
I've been using Synergy at work every day for three months. It's tendancy to crash or permanently disconnect had been...

The One Where I Visited Microsoft

The One Where I Visited Microsoft 01/16/2004 11:04 AM
Microsoft has no plans to abandon the MacBU. Period. By Ted Landau (MacFixIt via MyAppleMenu)

Genoa Color Announces First U.S. Patent
For Multi-Primary Color TV Technology

Genoa Color Announces First U.S. Patent
For Multi-Primary Color TV Technology 03/28/2005 08:06 PM
Wide Screen Review Mar 28 2005 8:42PM GMT

"create your own visited country map"

"create your own visited country map" 01/24/2004 09:28 PM

create your own visited states map

create your own visited states map 01/26/2004 03:02 PM
create a map of where you've been

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"create your own visited states map"

"create your own visited states map" 01/27/2004 02:55 PM

Google and JewWatch Re-Visited

Google and JewWatch Re-Visited 04/27/2004 09:32 PM

Google: An explanation of our search results: Google bought their own AdWord for the "jew" search term and uses it to link to a page explaining why the first link is an anti-semitic site. If you're confused, here's the background of the problem.

If you use Google to search for "Judaism," "Jewish" or "Jewish people," the results are informative and relevant. So why is a search for "Jew" different? One reason is that the word "Jew" is often used in an anti-Semitic context. Jewish organizations are more likely to use the word "Jewish" when talking about members of their faith. The word has become somewhat charged linguistically...

I did like the text of the AdWord link:

We're disturbed about these results as well. Please read our note...

However, here's the interesting thing: the Wikipedia entry for "jew" is on top now because of an organized GoogleBombing by people concerned about the results. Thousands of sites had a single entry of the word "jew" linked to Wikipedia's entry on the term. That was enough to push Wikipedia up the results and knock JewWatch out.

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Hotmail upgrade re-visited

Hotmail upgrade re-visited 06/27/2004 04:44 AM

I just don't get it I catch another angled story today about how Hotmail is going to be re-vamped and with storage improvements will be offering some expanded service. Reading the Microsoft press release their isn't that much substance to it. Just appears to be a lot more of the same. Time will tell but excitement in a post from a Micr osoft employee I guess we will have to sit back and watch.

Site Traffic Re-Visited

Site Traffic Re-Visited 07/13/2004 12:29 PM

Here's a quick little graph showing how traffic has increased over the last eight months. Click the little image (or here) for a much larger version.

The trendline tells the story — we've solidly doubled page hits. And this is just to the HTML pages — God (and Webalizer) only know what's happening on the RSS feed.

The spikes you're seeing there are posts that got linked to from high-profile sites. The Bill Gates post got a link from Boing Boing a few months ago and then there was the Basecamp review that got linked by Kottke a few weeks back. I think the smaller spikes further to the left are a couple entri es that got linked from Scripting News.

The regular spikes you see are the difference between weekday and weekend traffic — proof that we're all reading when we should be working.

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Web Developer Extension Re-Visited

Web Developer Extension Re-Visited 07/07/2004 04:31 PM

Web Developer Extension: I don't remember where I heard about this one, but it's a peach of an extension. We've talked about the Web Developer extension for Mozilla and FireFox before, but the latest version comes with the sweetest sidebar you could ever imagine...

You can open the stylesheet for the current page in a sidebar, make changes to the CSS, and the page changes in real time.

You cannot believe how handy this is. Play all you like, and watch your changes happen, then just copy all the CSS and paste it into the actual stylesheet (or you can save directly from the sidebar). If the page has inline styles, they open in the sidebar too under a different tab.

Add Web Developer's ability to display the CLASS and ID of every element on the page, and you never have to touch the HTML to re-do the style. Just fiddle with the CSS in the sidebar, and if you ever need to figure out how to "get at" something, just display the CLASSes and IDs for a second, then hide them again.

If you need to figure out how the spacing on the page works out, just add a quick CSS rule to outline all the DIVs in, say, green. Or use Web Developer to outline them.

This is as close to CSS heaven as I've come.

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an online church was visited by Satan
the other day

an online church was visited by Satan
the other day 05/21/2004 05:19 AM
abusive on the internet

cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/19/cyber.church.ap/index.html
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Spaceship One re-visited amazing
pictures

Spaceship One re-visited amazing
pictures 07/01/2004 03:53 PM

Thanks to Scoble for the link if you are still following the Spaceship One story. One of the attendee's to the historic flight took some amazing pictures that can be reviewed at [www.richard-seaman.com/Aircraft/AirShows/SpaceShipOne2004 /index.html]

4 Mln Have Visited The Web Site Of The
Police In 2004

4 Mln Have Visited The Web Site Of The
Police In 2004 12/31/2004 10:52 AM
AGI Online Dec 31 2004 1:42PM GMT

20.5 mln Web users visited tax sites in
January 2005

20.5 mln Web users visited tax sites in
January 2005 03/14/2005 06:00 PM
ZDNet Mar 13 2005 10:09AM GMT

HSCareers.com is the most visited US
niche employment site

HSCareers.com is the most visited US
niche employment site 02/20/2003 08:41 AM
Alexa.com, owned by Amazon.com and powered by Google.com, provides the average ranking of websites based on the number of visitors to a particular website over ...

Alexa Ranks conceptispuzzles.com as
82,777 Most Visited website

Alexa Ranks conceptispuzzles.com as
82,777 Most Visited website 09/10/2004 04:00 AM
conceptispuzzles.com now ranked as the internet's 82,777 most visited website, according to Alexa.com. This figure represents a growth of 160% from were the website was placed only three months ago. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

report from a 75-year-old woman who
visited Iraq

report from a 75-year-old woman who
visited Iraq 12/08/2003 05:45 AM
Mom on the front lines

tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/03/12/43731138.shtml?Elem ent_ID=43731138
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Reviving Advanced Hypertext (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

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