Today is national Pancake day. ::: www.pancakeday.com.au
Usability with 3G technology
I’m putting together a list of articles and more information on usability with 3G technology.
[1] 3G Lab finds usability issues with MMS ::: http://www.pmn.co.uk/200211283glab.shtml
[2] 3G Lab reports camera phone usability findings ::: http://www.pmn.co.uk/200209303glab.shtml
[3] A 2001 article by Jakob Nielsen
Hutchison's new direction with 3G
BRW comments on Hutchinson’s new adoption and strategies in the 3G mobile market ::: http://www.brw.com.au/stories/20030227/17982.asp
What is Network Based Integration?
Network Based Integration referes to the way in which software is developed and in relation to the way the developed software meets the needs of the system.
The architecture of the software being developed must be designed to conform to those needs, not the other way around. It is this software design that currently is debated particularly in relation to the development of Open-Source software and
other types.
I came across an article which covered this topic, and commented on the classification of software architecture design styles. The article comments on whats is described as Network Based Integration :::
Chapter 2 – Network-based Application Vs. Distributed based: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/net_app_arch.htm
Chapter 3 – Network-based Architectural Styles: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/net_arch_styles.htm
The future cyber wars
An interesting article in CNN.com on future cyber wars that will develop as technology advances. The article covered the topic of misleading information, the internet and information overload.
“Warfare is less and less about pushing men and machines around the battlefield and more and more about pushing electrons and photons,” said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Virginia.
If only Google went public
Red Herring comments on the potential and possible outcomes of Google going public. The article comments on the companies potential worth and whether its listing would have a dramatic impact in the currently flatulant industry :::
http://www.redherring.com/investor/2003/02/google021403.html
Shift Magazine closes down
The magazine/website which rode the internet wave during its boom has closed down 10 years after it’s launch. ::: http://www.shift.com
PNG & CSS power at Youngpup.net
I revisit Youngpup.net looking for some mega cool use of Styles and I came across some interesting articles on PNG ::: http://www.youngpup.net/?request=/snippets/sleight.xml
PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics and is an extensible file format for lossless, portable, well-compressed raster images. PNG is a patents free replacement to GIF. It has an optional alpha channel for transparency and its sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits per component (up to 48bit images for RGB, or 64bit for RGBA).
On a more historical point, PNG began in New Year’s Day 1995 when Unisys and CompuServe suddenly announced that programs implementing GIF would require royalties, because of Unisys’ patent on the LZW compression method used in GIF.
::: http://www.youngpup.net for a historical walkthrough of the PNG format visit Greg Roelofs The Story of PNG.
The Cathedral exclusive clip
Pete forwarding me this url of a 3d resource site, and an interesting article on “The Cathedral” exclusive clip. The Cathedral is an animated short film created by Tomek Baginski, a talented polish artist. The animation has been nominated for an academy award. ::: http://www.insidecg.com/feature.php?id=116
Alistapart on taming lists with CSS
I revisit the Alistapart article from September 2002 on taming lists with CSS. The article covers how to properly style a variety of lists, subnavigations, etc using only CSS. ::: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/taminglists/
Going along with the idea to dispense with tables and do everything with CSS, I also revisited the previous article on Practical CSS Layout ::: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/practicalcss/
Hillman Curtis launches his 2nd book
Hillman Curtis has launched his new book, titled “MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice for the New Media Designer”.
Reviews can be found here: www.amazon.com and www.digital-web.com/reviews/book
The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA)
The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture.
Selling Information Architecture
A really useful and interesting article in Digital Web Magazine which comments on the task of selling user-centred IA.
The problem with ?selling information architecture? is that too often it is assumed that people want Web sites, or that people want wireframes, or a content matrix, or a taxonomy. People don?t want any of these things, even though they say that they want them or might think that they need them.
Technology Review comments on Word Bursts
Technology Review picks up on the topic of “Word Bursts”, and comments on the algorithm created by Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University in New York which analyses large collections of documents for sudden changes in content and word usage. :::
www.technologyreview.com/offthewire/rnb_022503_2.asp
What is RSS 2.0? and how it works
Dave Winer has a great post on RSS and also detailed info on the workings behind it, the elements tags it uses and also a roadmap of extending RSS.
The page also has some useful links to Validators, How to’s, Utilities, Modules and also shared code.
RSS is the acronym for Really Simple Syndication. ::: http://backend.userland.com/rss