Well, it’s now available and I’m very excited! Think of the possibilities. For teachers. For sharing knowledge in an organization. For sharing knowledge with the world. Sign up now and get started. Related Posts Post a Slideshow on Your Site – Part II Post a Slideshow on Your Site... Read more
I stumbled across this post which describes how you can embed slides into your website. If you use either a free Flickr account (or Google’s Picasa), you can export your Powerpoint slides as image files, upload them to your photo site, and then insert a bit of code to... Read more
I know, I know. I’m late to the game. I was not able to attend Adaptive Path’s UX week in DC last month. Fortunately, there’s a wiki containing great sessions notes. Tags: [wiki, Adaptive Path, ux, user experience, conference, usability, information architecture, interaction design] Read more
Seems there’s a buzz about AOL’s venture into user-recommended-and-rated-news. I am not writing this post to berate AOL for moving into a space carved out by Digg. Frankly, I do not think Digg owns the IP to this social news framework. Others like those at Newsvine have produced similar... Read more
In my never-ending quest to manage my personal infocloud, I came across a great article referencing Foxmarks, a tool to sync Firefox bookmarks between computers. ... Read more
Today's Washington Post catches on the problems Mac users have identified for a while now - that Grants.gov does not support Mac users unless these users use a Citrix workaround.
Scientists should focus on science,... Read more
John Battelle recently asked readers to come up with a tagline for the next Web 2.0 conference. This will be the third such conference.
Year One included the tagline "The Web Is a Platform" to which Battelle remarks,
"That felt spot... Read more
Back in April I discussed how the federal government is discriminating against Macintosh users with regard to e-gov business transactions with the grantee community. I still cannot believe that OMB chose a solution that disregards a significant segment of its community. ... Read more
This is the second phishing attack I've received in the last 2 months. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, Webster defines phishing as
"The practice of luring unsuspecting Internet users to a fake Web site by using authentic-looking email with the real organization's logo, in... Read more
Yesterday, Google entered into the instant messaging wars by introducing its minimalist Talk client. Google based its instant messaging client on the existing open-source Jabber protocol. What's interesting is that although Google... Read more
Wordpress and Secunia reported on August 9 that there is a critical security vulnerability in WordPress 1.5.1.3. I can attest to that.
Yesterday I had a very important presentation to give as part of... Read more
Yesterday, Dan Brown, User Experience Lead with Computech, came to my "User Interactions with Information Systems" class to discuss "A Day in the Life of..." Dan offers over a decade of related... Read more
On Tuesday, Thomas Vander Wal, the person who coined the concept "folksonomy," came by my summer grad school class with a talk entitled "Designing for the Personal InfoCloud."
Thomas talked about a variety of topics, but some of the things that struck... Read more
For my graduate school class, I must work with a group to evaluate a web site or an information system (or compare multiple ones) for usability issues. Any ideas?
So far, my group has talked about the following:
I thought I'd jump into the never-ending Apple rumor fray. BetaNews reports on July 6, 2005 that:
"Intel announced that it is investing in a company called ClickStar with the intent to create a distribution system for... Read more
What a nice gift! Flickr decided to reward its loyal customers by offering (for free):
Is this an April Fool's Day joke? I doubt it since Google's Gmail was announced a year ago on April Fool's Day.
CNET reports that Google is doubling its offered email storage to 2 GB, with plans to continually add more storage. This really sets... Read more
When most of us do a search for whatever interests us using our favorite search engine, we typically do not look further than the results on the first page or two. Personally, if I do not find what I need on the first results page from
For the last few months I have been telling my wife how useful blogging can be from a professional point of view. You see, my wife runs a small business, her own psychotherapy practice. She primarily focuses on marriage and family therapy.
Last week she... Read more
IDG News Service reports that Yahoo! will expand its free email service storage to 1 GB per customer, exceeding Microsoft's Hotmail and matching Google's Gmail service.
I've used Yahoo's service for many years now. My initial decision was done partially to spite Microsoft's Hotmail service (I am... Read more