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Why No One Uses Your Application or Website
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on March 16, 2008
Jakob Nielsen, a longtime authority on web usability published an interesting piece this morning entitled Bridging the Designer–User Gap. While Nielsen is more thoughtful and persuasive in his argument, the cartoon above (from Stuff That Matters) neatly summarizes the piece: simplify.Nielsen tackles problems that lead to exactly the sort of failures outlined in the cartoon, including...
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Mozilla: Final Version of Firefox 3 Will Ship in June
via Wired: Compiler by Michael Calore on March 25, 2008
... of the open source web browser. According to VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer, the first Release Candidate will ship in early May. The RC1 stage is the point at which most of the larger extension developers re-work their code to be fully compatible with Firefox 3. So if your favorite extension isn't yet working, you'll only have to wait another month or so. Right now, the latest ...
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Lightzone: A Powerful Camera RAW Editor for Linux
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 09, 2008
If you're finding DigiKam or F-Spot, two of the many photo organization and editing tools for Linux, a bit limiting you may want to give Lightzone a try. The software isn'
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TimeBridge: Scheduling Made Easy
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on December 12, 2007
TimeBridge, an online calendar mashup that wants to take the pain out of scheduling meetings and coordinating calendars across multiple providers, has announced it's dropping its beta s
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Creating Proprietary Content is Like 'Writing in Sand'
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 09, 2008
We've written a lot lately about data portability and content ownership and how these debates relate to the open web. The issues are complex and thorny, but there is a simple way to solve them — put all your da
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Flickr Taps User Tags to Organize Library of Congress Images
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 15, 2008
Flickr has unveiled a new project, dubbed The Commons, which will give Flickr members an opportunity to browse and tag photos from Library of Congress archives. The goal is to create wha
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Saving the Web From Internet Explorer 8
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 21, 2008
Just before Internet Explorer 7 was released, my Compiler co-author Michael wrote a piece entitled, Why Internet Explorer 7 Will Break the Web. As he and others suspec
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Pownce: Micro-Blogging Social Network Goes Public
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 21, 2008
Pownce, the micro-blogging, file-sharing, social network has lifted the veil from its private beta, opening the door to the general public. The site is still a beta and traffic from the public launch appears to be hitting hard, currently the site is as a crawl, but for all those who've been wanting in on the Pownce fun, your day has arrived.Despite developer Leah Culver’s best efforts,...
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THe HTML 5 Draft Hints at a Brave New Web
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 22, 2008
The release of a draft specification for HTML 5 marks another important step toward creating the next version of HTML, the hypertext markup language that powers the web. Yesterday the HTML Working Group, which is the arm of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) charged with updating HTML, published the first official draft of HTML 5, which will eventually supersede HTML 4. The web has grown and...
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Dapper: Give the Web an RSS Makeover
via Wired: Compiler by Scott Gilbertson on January 01, 2008
It's 2008, why doesn't every single page on the web offer an RSS feed? We have no idea, but we do have a nifty workaround — Dapper.net. Using Dapper you can set up your own page scraping tool to gather data even when a page doesn't offer an RSS feed.Dapper is a free web app that can scrape just about any page and combine the data into a variety of output formats — raw XML, RSS,...
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