A good article by Brian Livingston about how web users react to placement of elements on a web page.
Monthly Archive for March, 2005
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 sector, which garnered the biggest benefit during the go-go years, has suffered a black eye.
‘It took 86 years for the Red Sox to win the World Series. It may take a little less for the Nasdaq to hit 5,000 again,’ said Richard Peterson, chief market strategist at Thomson Financial.
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 and video game consoles.
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, I have a poor memory for remembering them and have done very poorly on these quizzes. Of course, I can go home and watch them all over again just like the first time because I don’t remember them.
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, Kazakhstan, Poland, Ukraine and even Iceland. The newcomers include 69 Americans and 38 Europeans. More than half of them are entirely self-made…
The gap between the world’s two richest people, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, narrowed further this year, though Gates hung on to his superlative title for the 11th year.
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 results chosen by keyword.
I played with it briefly and it seems to work well.
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 for the sport of it.
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 in Hanover, the report said.
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, Australia.“What you can find in the trash is simply amazing. People throw out notes, drafts of letters, printouts of source code.”
–Kevin MitnickMitnick led the FBI on a 15-year manhunt that ended in 1995, and he ended up behind bars for nearly four years. Older and seemingly wiser, he now uses his skills for good as a Los Angeles-based security consultant.
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 Microsoft’s four-member legal team.”
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