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There is a Fire Lit Underneath Yahoo!'s Butt  

:: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 ::

If you don't get it right the first few times, copy Google. Yahoo! Establishes Yahoo! Research Labs to Advance & Enhance Technology Innovation

More stuff to memorize. W3C moves ahead with mobile Web standard

"The W3C technical specification -- Composite Capability/Preference Profiles (CC/PP): Structures and Vocabularies 1.0 -- enables handheld devices, such as mobile phones and PDAs (personal digital assistants), to communicate with Web servers and exchange content delivery information, according to the consortium. The system, for instance, will allow a mobile phone to tell the server its display size so that content is delivered in a format that fits the screen. "

Usability:

I bet you couldn't wait for Part 2. Are You Designing for Usability or Sales? by Bryan Eisenberg

"Scenario design helps users achieve their goals. How do you plan scenarios? Well, if you're designing scenarios for a commercial Web site, one that demonstrates return on investment (ROI) by getting sales, leads, or registrants, you design persuasive scenarios by turning the information you have on your users into personas."

Web design tip. The Perfect 404

"A user-friendly website will give you a helping hand while many others will simply do nothing, relying on the browser’s built-in ability to explain what the problem is. We can do better than that, can’t we?"

Know your website USA user. Internet use grows to 69 percent of US adults: poll

And your Chinese ones. Broadband Internet usage soars in China


Other shocking news and stuff:

Going the way of Farscape. Star Trek: ENTERPRISE rumored to be riding off into the Universe sunset.

I wasn't surprised to hear that Dick Gephardt lost the 2004 Iowa Caucus . After the US Government made a law against sending Spam (lame as that law is), this Presidential candidate's staff found it necessary to send me a minimum of 5 spam emails A DAY for about 2 weeks. Um. Hello!!!

At least somebody isn't giving up hope on the unwanted email problem. According to Going Upstream to Fight Spam

"Eric Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, said a technology that recognizes legitimate senders may prove more efficient at curtailing spam than existing filters, which only work on messages that have been downloaded to servers and PCs."

World Social Forum Kicks Off

"The forum will end with a demonstration against the U.S. occupation of Iraq."

Where is Google's QA Department? Ending Dot Bug

"In what appears to be a bug from code to support international Google sites like google.ca, if you visit a page on google.com. (note trailing ".", something which is technically equivalent to not including it but rarely used) then the links to "Images" and "Groups" on the top don't work."

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 1/20/2004 10:32:11 AM

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