Here is an interesting discussion I came across while reading George H. Williams blog site post on whether it is accurate to call print an information technology?
Design plays a huge role in Web Credibility
Small Initiatives comment on some recent research which shows that Design plays a huge role in the credibility of web sites, particularly e-commerce and e-business. Web credibility is an interesting …
Google Labs – the technology playground of Google
labs.google.com is the location of Google’s technology playground. The site contains some of googles latest developments including the new 26 March Google Compute where you can donate your idle computer …
A google-enabled visual search
Anil Dash posts an interesting link to a google-enabled visual search in his daily links section of his website. The Google demo Visual Search developed by Anacubis integrates the Google …
Improving search results relevance in Google
37 Signal post an interesting comment on search results from Google, by making comparisons to results for “african coffee trade”. They have created a visual-mockup of how Google might render …
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 …
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 …
Daypop searches by Word Bursts
Daypop has a useful series of search engines which both search for keywords and links, but also by “Word Bursts” which I commented on last week and was published in …
TextArc – a tool to aid in the discovery of patterns in arbitrary texts
TextArc is a tool created by W. Bradford Paley to aid in the discovery of patterns and concepts in arbitrary texts by utilizing – human visual processing. It compliments approaches …
Word usage and identifying trends
New Scientist report on an interesting topic of studying word-usage counts as a way of rapidly identifying new trends and sorting information more efficiently. Developed by Jon Kleinberg from Cornell …
The Elements of User Experience
The Elements of User Experience – User Centered Design for the Web – is a book by Jesse James Garrett, an Information Architect based in San Francisco. He has written …
Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction
An interesting article on MIT’s Alumni website commenting on new Information privacy laws. The article is titled “Big Brother Is No Longer Fiction: On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a …
Future Cyberjournalism (1994, 1999)
After reading the 1989 article by Norman Meyrowitz (president of Macromedia), I decided to do a little more research and find a little more on this topic. After a little …
The Desktop of Tomorrow
An interesting article I found at KLynch.com on the next generation desktop – The Desktop of Tomorrow a paper by Norm Meyrowitz from Brown University in July 1989″. The article/paper …
Emoticons vary from region to region
An interesting article which looks at how emoticons (characters symbolising human emotions) vary from region to region. As an example the article covers how western american and european smilies :) …