The Week in Review
May 2, 2008 at 8:30 am by Chris
This post is a collection of things that caught my attention this week, most of which came to me via RSS feeds and blogs that I read myself. Now I'm passing them on to you (in the order in which I bookmarked them). Enjoy!- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Read how with print revenue down and online revenue growing, newspaper executives are anticipating the day when big city dailies and national papers will abandon their print versions. Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages. Read how within the last five years, the size of the average web page has more than tripled, and the number of external objects has nearly doubled. While broadband users have experienced somewhat faster response times, narrowband users have been left behind. Read Jakob Neilsen's latest AlertBox, in which he writes, "Users scan lists by moving their eyes rapidly down the left edge. Menu items that are right-aligned make scanning more difficult." Read how a Dubai based firm is in the process of developing software that will make it easy to restrict access “to groups on Facebook deemed to go against the social, moral, cultural and religious values of the United Arab Emirates.” Read how Microsoft has come up with a “wearable pointing device” that looks somewhat like a hybrid between the gloves in Minority Report and the Nintendo Wiimote. Their patent filed in October 2006 was just recently published. Read this email lesson to Bcc. Read about the war against the web. Read how you can strip Twitter down to its raw, emotional core with Twistori. The simple website scrapes Twitter posts for exactly six keywords using the search engine summize. Read how old-school encyclopedia Britannica is giving bloggers free subscriptions to Britannica Online, the internet version of its multivolume masterpiece. Read how we’ve outsourced our own content, leaving little point to a fullblown personal website. Read how the number of messages sent via SMS falls dramatically among MIM users from 38 to only 23 messages per 100. Read about Henry Blodget unveiling the new SAI 25 which values the top 25 startups. At the top of the list was Facebook, bringing in a valuation of $9 billion. Read about Iceberg, which provides a drag and drop form builder and a workflow and process generation tool, and uses a visual flowchart like interface to create decision trees and other action and event triggers automatically. Stop using Ajax! Read how the future web will put "all the data in the world" at the fingertips of every user. Read how Adobe will open the FLV and SWF formats. Read about two German companies that have patented technology for sending scented text messages on mobile phones. Read about stalking your users with Woopra. |
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