Tuesday, November 26, 2002

Recommended reading Recommended reading. Economist.com design director David Wertheimer shed light on his site's redesign process in a recent book, "Usability: the Site Speaks for Itself." Now, Digital Web Magazine has published excerpts from the book. I've wanted to get the book for a while; reading this whetted my appetite more. (On a related note, Economist.com's innovative "subscriber sponsorship" has been the buzz lately.) Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch declares keyword meta tags are dead. Mark Pilgrim has made several technical innovations on his weblog, including a custom 404 script that enables URL-based shortcuts. (Here at Holovaty.com, I've had URL-based search functionality for a few months -- just type holovaty.com/search/[searchstring] in your browser's location bar.) He's also put together a Recommended reading tool that, given your weblog's URL, suggests other sites you might like to read. It behooves publishers of online news sites to keep an eye on the early technological adapters in the weblog community. [Holovaty.com] 7:21:08 PM    comment []

Books and blogs. A while back I mentioned Erik Benson's All Consuming site. It continues to intrigue me, and I've now signed up for the weekly RSS feed. Inspired by Weblog BookWatch, Erik's service makes books, as well as people, an organizing principle of  blogspace. So here's a little experiment. I'm going to cite some books I've read recently, and have been thinking about, in order to see what kind of discussion is reflected back through All Consuming. ... [Jon's Radio] 7:16:46 PM    comment []

Groove 2.5 and Sharepoint 2.0 Groove 2.5 and Sharepoint 2.0. Commweb : Getting out of isolated-workspace ruts Dana Gardner, an analyst with Aberdeen Group, says there's no other product on the market that can combine a powerful centralized collaboration tool such as Sharepoint with the decentralized, offline capabilities of Groove. "There's nothing this comprehensive for the user and easy for an IT department," Gardner says. "You get the best of an intranet combined with the best of an extranet." [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog] MS is getting in the Portal space through collaboration: with Groove they have a killer combination ! 7:15:36 PM    comment []