Are Your Visitors Seeing What You Think?
A good article by Brian Livingston about how web users react to placement of elements on a web page.
Monthly archives: March, 2005
In life after the bubble, tech takes a backseat
From TechRepublic: Five years ago Thursday, a pin pricked the Internet bubble. And in that five-year span, the tech-heavy Nasdaq has fallen by more than half, corporate America has pulled back its IT spending, a large swath of jobs have been cut across a number of industry sectors, consumer confidence has waned, and the tech …
Kids’ Rooms Becoming Multimedia Centers
From Yahoo! News: It wasn’t too long ago that a kid with a stereo and television in his room might have been the coolest on the block. Now, that just makes him one of the crowd. In the past five years, many children’s rooms have evolved into multimedia centers, with cable or satellite hookups, computers …
Invisibles Quiz – Movie Fun
Filmwise.com has a bunch of invisible quizzes where they Photoshop the people out of a film scene but leave their clothing and it is up to you to determine if you can figure it out. Boingboing.net has a link to an excel spreadsheet with 70 such scenes. While I do watch a lot of movies, …
The World’s Richest People
From Forbes.com: The rich had a very good year. The collective net worth of the 691 billionaires we could find is $2.2 trillion, up $300 billion from the combined worth of the 587 people listed last year. Every region saw gains. The world’s richest moguls now hail from 47 countries, including, for the first time, …
Google personalizes news site
From CNet: Google began testing new customization features on its news aggregation site Wednesday in a salvo against competition from Microsoft. Google News, still in its test or ‘beta’ phase after launching in 2002, says it will let people specify what categories of news to display on the page, giving an array of choices including …
‘Robin Hoods of cyberspace’ plead guilty
From CNN: Three men prosecutors dubbed the ‘Robin Hoods of cyberspace’ pleaded guilty Tuesday to putting millions of dollars worth of copyrighted computer games, movies and software on the Internet so that people around the world could make copies for free. All three said they made no money on the scheme, and did it just …
7-megapixel camera phone announced
From MSNBC: South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. will unveil the world’s first mobile phone with a 7-megapixel camera at a trade fair in Germany, Yonhap News Agency reported Wednesday. The mobile phone SCH-V770, fitted with a lens similar to a top-end digital still camera, will be presented at the annual CeBIT trade fair opening Thursday …
Mitnick: Security depends on workers’ habits
From TechRepublic: Famed ex-hacker Kevin Mitnick is warning against security strategies that focus on technology. Rather, teaching your staff to say no will help keep your network secure, he says. Mitnick, a cyberspace legend known for having penetrated the networks of such companies as Motorola and Nokia, spoke Thursday at Toshiba’s MobileXchange conference in Melbourne, …
Microsoft Sues KSU Student
From AP (via News Channel 5): “Microsoft has sued a Kent State University student over his eBay resale of software purchased for $50 at a discounted student rate. David Zamos, 21, purchased the software while attending the University of Akron last September. The chemistry major has countersued and plans to defend himself in court against …