Thursday, December 26, 2002

Web Design -Design Shitty Top Ten Web Design Mistakes for 2002. Continuing our theme tonight (which is loosely based on the impending New Year) we have a set of suggestions for website designers. However, most of the mistakes listed fall should under a single heading; i.e., people expect consistency from computers and by extension, websites. Paraphrasing one, 'If you have a... [Lockergnome's Bits and Bytes] 9:23:36 PM    comment []

Wireless Ring Tones Will Save the Music Industry [Slashdot] 8:29:15 PM    comment []

Blogs Ok, I know this feature is here and I've yet to get it to work. Anyone? Anyone....anyone.... Hey, if you want to mail to your weblog and you use Radio, no need to wait. It's had the feature since the product was released on 1/11/02. All you need is a mail account for it to use and then turn it on and you're ready to go. It works. No problem. [Scripting News] 8:25:29 PM    comment []

Education Parents Log On To Keep Tabs On Kids : Rob Britt, principal at Carpenters Middle School, said all the comments from parents regarding the Power School system have been positive. (The Daily Times via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu] 8:19:45 AM    comment []

Commercial Radio Only 340 shopping days until Chrismukah. Making the rounds: Clear Channel Entertainment Purchases Christmas and Hunukkah [~] Will Merge the Holidays. A sample: While details were not available at press time, it is believed that the overhead cost of having twelve days of Christmas and eight days of Hanukkah was becoming prohibitive. Clear Channel executives felt that this new consolidation could result in significant cost savings and profit opportunities for the company and offer a substantial benefit to it's worldwide customer base. Thanks to Dean for the pointer. [The Doc Searls Weblog] 8:07:10 AM    comment []

E-commerce The theory is sound. I use to work for Peapod in Texas, where we had a thriving client base in the Houston Metro area. Unfortunately, the grocery chain Randalls had no one who had a clue about internet commerce. Post-Boom Meal Plan: Order Online. The online food delivery model isn't buried with Kozmo.com and Webvan. Two Manhattan-based startups plan to succeed where others have failed -- and make money, too. By Dan Levine. [Wired News] 8:01:13 AM    comment []

Storage and Media New laser should mean 16X DVD writers by 2004 [IDG InfoWorld] 7:30:54 AM    comment []

Wireless AT&T delays 3G, plans limited service by end 2004 [IDG InfoWorld] 7:29:48 AM    comment []

Privacy "San Francisco Chronicle" - Yahoo privacy worries. Looks like what little privacy we enjoy online is about to dwindle even further. Ho, ho, ho, boys and girls. Yahoo's announcement this week that it plans to acquire search-engine powerhouse Inktomi for $235 million raises all sorts of troubling questions about who controls information in the electronic ether, as well as how that info gets exploited for commercial gain. [ ... ] It might also give Yahoo unprecedented ability to monitor Internet users' behavior and deluge them with tailor-made advertising based on one's surfing. Yahoo now records and studies all visits by registered users to the thousands of pages constituting the Yahoo network. This includes browsing of listings on the company's Hotjobs online classifieds. Once Yahoo's acquisition of Inktomi goes through, probably within the next three months, it seems fair to wonder if use of the search engine will be similarly monitored by Yahoo. More ominous still, could Yahoo profit from use of Inktomi's technology at other sites, including Amazon.com, EBay and WalMart.com? For example, would someone who searches for computer gear at EBay get swamped with ads for tech companies the next time he stops by Yahoo? Yahoo isn't saying, at least not yet. "We won't provide any details until the deal (with Inktomi) closes," said Diana Lee, a spokeswoman for the company. "At this point, we're not ready to discuss details." [ ... ] Perhaps we can take solace that Inktomi no longer provides search technology to the CIA and the Internal Revenue Service, as was the case until earlier this year. What might Yahoo have done with back-door access to that kind of info? [Privacy Digest] 7:01:22 AM    comment []

Privacy e-Marketer - Online Privacy Concerns: Who Knows? You better watch out. US consumers will spurn who's naughty and reward who's nice when it comes to respecting privacy [Privacy Digest] 6:56:47 AM    comment []

Family I seem to remember that there is some discussion as to whether today or the day after Thanksgiving is the most busy shopping day of the year. Around here it's back to the job. 6:50:08 AM    comment []

Internet Radio I've printed out the docs to this and with approx. 5,000 songs on computers and on CD, this could be interesting. homemade dot mac seerver. Want to stream mp3's inside your own home/network/community? OSX can do it all and macdevcenter has simple easy to follow instructions. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 6:47:45 AM    comment []