Jinn of Quality and Risk

Jinn?

Reportedly an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtain of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. Grants wishes.

Bio?

Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict

Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — good genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany

Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly language, Pascal, C/C++, etc.

Jobs: factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, language lawyer, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, consultant, director of technology, solutions architect, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer

Projects

Write a book, quickly. Read, more. Sleep, less. Travel in Europe and America, v.soon. Find a job, again.

Links

Tuesday, February 19, 2002

I wonder how Opodo rates... Usability News — Planning Your Next Vacation: Orbitz, Expedia, or Travelocity?: "Orbitz.com, a new travel website developed by five airlines, American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, and United, is a fierce competitor to Expedia.com and Travelocity.com. [...] We decided to compare the three sites in a usability test to see which, if any, came out on top with first-time users. We evaluated participants' user satisfaction, navigational efficiency, and general preference for three travel sites."

Business 2.0 ó What the *&%*$@!! are Web Services? (And Why You Should Care): Microsoft has spent $2 billion developing Visual Studio.Net and C#, and just about every other major IT company on the planet ó e.g. IBM and Sun ó is also placing big bets on Web services. Apparently, it's also possible to create Web Services with Radio (Web Services directory) as well as Python and lots of other cheap, simple-to-apply tools...

Why You Should Fall to Your Knees and Worship a Librarian: "Librarians can catalogue anything from an onion to a dog's ear. They could catalogue you. ... People become librarians because they know too much."

The Software Usability Research Laboratory (at University of Wichita) has posted several eye-opening studies over the last few years in their Usability News newsletter. For instance see the recent article Examining User Expectations for the Location of Common E-Commerce Web Objects ó aimed at e-commerce sites, it provides interesting insights into where to place common objects such as the "help" link, the search box, and links back to the home page.

Section 508: The Road to Accessibility — important for US government projects

Mobile Phones Morph Into Credit Cards ó beginning in March, mobile-telco Vodafone will offer its UK customers the ability to use mobile phones as a type of mobile credit card for making small purchases. Payment is authorised by a user name and password for Internet purchases and a PIN number for WAP purchases. This does not sound secure.

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