Greetings! It's been slow posting for me recently since I've been focusing much more on some personal issues...I'll try to get back to posting soon.
In the meantime, on Thursday, October 27, the Fay family welcomed their two little girls into the world. See additional... Read more
Well, I may have found a search tool that makes up for some of the limitations of my last post regarding Rollyo. It seems Chris Pirillo of G4TechTV's Call for Help fame created... Read more
Since I'm always on the prowl for all that is gadgety-cool as well as anything that may make my life easier, I came across a search tool with a twist...
Today, Yahoo! introduced its Instant Search beta - it allows users to potentially return answers as you type. Think Google's "I'm feeling lucky" but without the wait, because Yahoo's search beta leverages AJAX technologies.
Tags: [Yahoo, Yahoo!, AJAX, Read moreThis 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
James Melzer, fellow CLIS graduate, spoke to my grad school class last week regarding Enterprise Information Architecture. James has a great complement to Lou Rosenfeld's original.
I was a little stuck on James' use of content/document/record, but I realize I do not have... Read more
My father-in-law and I recently purchased a small video camera (iSight) that can be mounted onto the top of our Apple computers. The purpose of the camera is so that we can both... 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
Jeff Gates of Life Outtacontext opened my ignorant eyes to an internet faux pas with his entertaining July 23rd entry entitled, "Don't Get Mad, Get Even." Jeff first provides the common definition for stealing bandwidth:
Stealing Bandwidth: "when someone links directly to internet files from another... Read more
Chad Dickerson, CTO at InfoWorld, announced yesterday that he will be leaving the company to join Yahoo! Research Berkeley. I've read his columns much like a moth is attracted to... Read more
Apple finally updates its one button mouse...
Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit the Laboratory for Automation Psychology at the University of Maryland. Kent Norman discussed a few things, but his passion involves the study of... 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 will receive my MIM degree after completing a summer class that lasts for 6 weeks. "User Interactions With Information Systems" is a course that greatly...
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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
I recently read a CIO Magazine article that discusses some of problems the FBI has faced while attempting to implement technical solutions. Although technology projects have been successfully implemented, there still exists a culture that mimimizes the importance of these solutions. The article states Azmi [FBI CIO] is aware... Read more