Jan 28, 2007
links for 2007-01-28
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The world’s total production of information amounts to about 250 megabytes for each man, woman, and child on earth.
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Google you have got my attention but don’t be evil!
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The practice of software design is shot through with computer-as-box assumptions, while our actual behavior is closer to computer-as-door, treating the device as an entrance to a social space. Shirky in 2004
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visuals are sometimes less important than other parts of the design. In some cases to make a judgment on visuals alone can miss the entire value proposition of what’s really going on. We need to know how design affects someone’s life, their social nee
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Many of the design teams we talk to face the same major issue: how to organize the information on their sites. From creating navigation schemes to developing site hierarchies to refining checkout sequences, it’s highly important for design teams to orga
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CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the
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Magnetic Defence Complex protects skin from the ageing effects of Artificial Electromagnetic Waves.
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a term that has been hyped up in all sorts of ways with no collectively understood definition.
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I don’t think there was any deliberate plan to suggest there was a new version of the web. They just wanted to make the point that the web mattered again. It was a kind of semantic deficit spending: they knew new things were coming, and the “2.0″ referred
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Traditional broadcast is pretty simple. Media companies try to reach as many people as possible through terrestial, satellite and cable. They want to reach people in their own home.
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P2P is now the ‘killer application’ of the Internet. Figures based on actual backbone measurements show that P2P is the main Internet traffic component. Astonishingly, over 60% of all Internet traffic is now P2P.
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The only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication. All that talk about prodigies? We could all be prodigies (or nearly so) if we just put in the time and focused. At least that’s what the brain guys are saying. Best of all–it
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The rapid rise of online social networks is both a social and business phenomenon, the impact of which is only beginning to be understood. The consumer-powered Web 2.0 creates innovative ways for businesses to operate and people to communicate.
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Al Queda, which used a biological, organic, cell organization. A small central group sets values and goals and a very loose coalition of cells executes. The cells merge, coalesce, break apart rapidly. Very agile networking model. Very good at disruptive i
