UI Best Practices

I have a request for anyone that designs user interfaces. When you have a page that contains a function to be performed against a page that has a potentially large amount of content, please include the function buttons at the top AND the bottom of the page.

Scrolling through 841 items to get to the “bulk [...]

Shareholder Value, What You Didn’t Know

“But Paulson’s move adds to Icahn’s support among Yahoo shareholders, since hedge funds tend to pursue returns more aggressively than other institutional shareholders and are more likely to vocally press for strategic moves that could boost stock values.”

Where does one even begin to parse this statement buried in the Reuters piece about Carl [...]

Memo to the Semantic Web

Everyone on the panel was agreed in stressing the importance of building applications that solve real problems for real users. Neither users nor investors are particularly interested in being pitched with ‘the Semantic Web’ or ‘RDF’ or ‘triples’; they want applications and solutions.[From Commercialising the Semantic Web | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com]

Dear [...]

A Column’s 45 Years

I can’t even imagine the discipline and fortitude it takes to write a newspaper column for 45 years.

On May 15, 1963, Rowland Evans and I published our first column. That makes today the 45th anniversary (the first 30 years under the Evans & Novak byline) of the nation’s current longest-running syndicated political column.[From [...]

Icahn’s Rat Pack

Kedrosky is right, this is by far the most humorous take on Icahn’s proposed slate of directors:

Sake Oil - aka Mark Cuban: a An entrepreneur with a history of creating companies that he then sells for far more than they are worth to sucker corporations. Cuban sold broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7bn [...]

Comcast Acquiring Plaxo

This totally makes sense.

Big doings at Plaxo today! We are really excited to announce some of the biggest news in the history of Plaxo: We have just signed an agreement** to be acquired by Comcast, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services (and our largest customer and partner).[From [...]

Widget Metrics

We’re starting to publish some of the stats that our clients are pointing to as a measure of success for their widget strategies. To recap, we sell primarily to media companies so impressions and interaction rates matter to them. Interaction rates include not only the clickthroughs but also the take down rates, as in the [...]

HP/EDS Makes Sense

Dennis nicely captured the 3 people that I’ve read on the HP/EDS deal: Tom Foremski, Larry Dignan, and Vinnie Mirchandani:

My take is skewed by experiences I’ve seen in Europe where EDS has been removed or had its contractual relationships significantly cut back as projects have either failed, been ‘botched’ or it’s been forced to bid [...]

All the Time is Prime Time

Like every train wreck, you can see it coming but only at the point of impact does anyone really pay attention to it.

But the more significant shift can’t be blamed on the strike. In the past television season, there has been a sharp increase in time-shifting. Some of the six million are still watching, but [...]

Earthquakes

Watching this video took me back to 1989… it’s amazing how time slows down in an earthquake, the Loma Prieta quake was maybe 20 seconds in duration but as is the case with today’s quake in China, it felt like 20 minutes at the time.

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