The recent update of the OS X software by Barebones, BBEdit, has caused some interesting reactions from users, most disliking the program more by the redesign of its trademark icon. …
User and community driven vocabularies
Michael Angeles has posted a blog post describing user and community driven vocabularies. The processes discussed includes centralising vocabularies and using requests to either push and/or pull information.
Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web
A copy of the Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web discusses some concerns of the Semantic Way of searching information and ontologies.
Lessons from the Chinese translation of Free Culture
Blog on Blog comment on the unique differences and lessons learnt about the Chinese translation of Laurence Lessig’s Free Culture book. Some of those involved in the project from the …
What to do with a talking horse?
UIE have written an interesting paper on the web development stage called the Talking Horse. Every website during development goes through this step, this article informs of ways to recognise …
The marketing value of social networks
Alexa comments on the marketing value of social networks and graphs its growth from January 2003 to September 2004. See also: Unlocking the elusive potential of social networks – McKinsey …
Trust and accuracy of collaborative software
Orante has commented on the credibility, trust and accuracy of Wikipedia and other collaborative editing software and websites such as wiki’s. Slash dot has also added to the discussion with …
Mark Lyon’s G-Mail applications
Mark Lyon has some useful tools that work with your Google G-Mail account including applications that let you connect to your account, upload emails and other tasks. BTW, thanks to …
Carnivale UK premiere on FX
I watched the UK Premiere episode of Carnivale on FX289. It is a great new television series about a travelling circus. The writing, opening titles and set design is fantastic. …
Fonts for programmers
It’s not that often that you consider a variety of font styles and faces to help in programming for OS X and Windows, but here are a variety I’ve recently …
Mark Hurst on increasing knowledge of User Experience
Mark Hurst who runs the website GoodExperience.com has added some valuable and useful tips on how to increase your knowledge and management of customer user experience.
SETI project finds distance mysterious signal
New Scientist reports that a new mysterious signal has been identified, that is the most likely candidate for contact by intelligent alien life so far. The signal detected by astronomers …
Useful tips on RSS Usability
There are some useful usability tips when considering RSS in a blog post at helge.at. Some of the considerations include disguised links, too few textual information, too many articles per …
Crypto conference reveals MD5 flaw
An interesting article in MIT Technology Review which comments on how researchers in France, Israel and China have found flaws in the MD5 encryption. An algorithm and encryption that up …
The NextD Design Journal
An interesting journal titled, The NextD Design Journal looks at a variety of topics and areas, including human-centered design, navigation, innovation, interaction and research.