From: Gleanings
To: Mulders
Subject: Gleanings: The Truth is Out There
OPENINGS THANG
Found this link on Peterme's site (who is ranting against anthropology these days, go take a look peterme.com)
http://www.simpleton.com/20000930.html
It's a story of a reporter who wrote a story on the Reverend Jackson for a major magazine, and had it rewritten to portray the Right Rev as a villain. It's an interesting story, but I also find it interesting that there was a day when this would have happened and no one would have ever known. The internet may provide for hoaxes and urban myths, but it also allows truth to get out to the general public.
USABILITY MATTERS
The true story of QWERTY, everybody's favorite example of good enough+mass acceptance=standard
http://www.reason.com/9606/Fe.QWERTY.html
and more info here, if you are interested
http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/myths.html
What size is your user's resolution?
Here's how to track it
http://www.evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=2295&catid=17
and what the author found about his own site
http://www.evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=2297&catid=20
IBM developerWorks: When Web pages don't work.
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/web-work.html
IA & DESIGN
Everyone's talking about UrbanPixel
Tog says:
http://www.asktog.com/columns/040Urbanpixel.html
visit the site
http://www.urbanpixel.com/preview.html
NEWS
from tomalak
Industry Standard: Web Publishers Learn to Love Micropayments.
But publishers complain that the micropayment brigade still hasn't fixed the
biggest problem - customers' unwillingness to pay a la carte. Until there's a
widespread and easy-to-use standard, that reluctance will probably endure.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,19250,00.html
Useit.Com: From January 25, 1998; The Case for Micropayments
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980125.html
from NUA
http://www.nua.com
B2B ecommerce revenues in the US are expected to rise from USD336
billion this year to USD6.3 trillion by 2005, according to a new report
from Jupiter Research.
http://jup.com/company/pressrelease.jsp?doc=pr001002
Speedy delivery of electronic solutions to the marketplace is now the
biggest concern for those in the financial services industry.
http://www.capgemini.com/news/2000/0928competition.htm
WAP
from CHI-WEB
WAP/Mobile Links (in no particular order)
www.ajaxo.com/
www.combra.se/wap/ewapservices.html
http://mobileinternet.ericsson.se/
www.ericsson.com/internetsolutions/
www.yourwap.com/
www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~jjh/mobil.htm
www.mwif.org/
www.nokia.com/corporate/wap/
www.wapforum.org/
http://updev.phone.com
www.phone.com
www.anywhereyougo.com
www.wapguide.com/wapguide/
www.wapsites.com.au/
www.iec.org/tutorials/wap/
www.cellular.co.za/
www.allnetdevices.com
www.iir-mobileinternet.com
www.nokia.com/phones/tutorials/7110/0.1_topics/
www.portablelife.com
http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/mobile/
www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm
www.wapholesun.com
http://webcab.de/www.htm
www.thinkmobile.com
www.wirelessdevnet.com
APROPOS OF NOTHING
DOG, BUDDHA, ELVIS
Witness a portrait of a man besieged by his triune conscience. Perhaps you have been this hung-
over, no?
http://www.atomfilms.com/default.asp?spot_id=141&sl=1009
my friend dave is number eight on the f*ckedcompany board. go dave!