Dec 19
ZDNet published an interesting blog about the biggest Web 2.0 events of 2005 written by Richard MacManus.
Top Ten Web 2.0 Moments of 2005 — It’s been a huge year for the Web! A time of renewed optimism in Silicon Valley and an incredible number of new web applications. In a sense it all started with Google’s IPO in August 2004, the success of which was a positive and affirming lead-in to 2005. We then witnessed a renaissance of startup activity, acquisitions and intense VC interest in the Web throughout the year. Here then is my list of the top ten defining moments for the Web in 2005. […]
Dec 16
The mission of Microsoft Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) research team is to design visualization and interaction techniques.
The VIBE research contains several interesting user interface research projects. Have a look at the VIBE website for getting more information.
Dec 14
Web 2.0 is an term referring to the ongoing transition from the existing Web to a full socialized Web, it tries to provide a new kind of applications where communication and collaboration is the main focus. It mainly addresses two issues:
The Read/Write Web: In which the Web is seen as a two-way medium, where people are both readers and writers. The main catalyst for this is social software, allowing communication and collaboration between two or more people.
The Web as Platform: In which the Web is seen as a programming platform upon which developers create software applications. The main catalyst for this is Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), allowing communication between two or more software applications.
It is important to recognize, however, that “Web 2.0″ is not anything other than the Web as it exists today. But the problems, issues, and technologies we’re dealing with are in many ways different, and so using the term “Web 2.0″ is a recognition that the Web is in a constant state of change, and that we have entered a new era of networked participation.
The following application changes have been named in the “What is Web 2.0″ article:
| Web 1.0 |
Web 2.0 |
| DoubleClick |
Google AdSense |
| Ofoto |
Flickr |
| Akamai |
BitTorrent |
| mp3.com |
Napster |
| Britannica Online |
Wikipedia |
| personal websites |
blogging |
| evite |
upcoming.org and EVDB |
| domain name speculation |
search engine optimization |
| page views |
cost per click |
| screen scraping |
web services |
| publishing |
participation |
| content management systems |
wikis |
| directories (taxonomy) |
tagging (”folksonomy”) |
| stickiness |
syndication |
Other great examples of existing Web 2.0 applications are: Technorati, del.icio.us and Writely. For detailed introduction visit: Introduction to Web 2.0 by Joshua Porter and have a look at the What is Web 2.0? map from FOO Camp 2005 .
Dec 08
The Journal of Usability Studies (JUS) is an online publication dedicated to promote and enhance the practice, research, and education of usability engineering. Their first issue was published in November 2005. To quote:
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Usability Studies.
This journal was born in response to a growing need in the community of usability practitioners and researchers. Have you ever you looked for the most recent findings of usability studies that you can learn from or wondered where to publish interesting results from your own usability studies? Until now, there was no available forum for usability practitioners and applied researchers to share and disseminate many of their findings and experiences that are of general interest to this community. To meet this need and to fill the gap between academic research and business case studies, the Journal of Usability Studies was born. This publication will be a peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to promoting and enhancing the practice, research, and education of usability engineering.
Avi Parush in Journal of Usability Studies (Issue 1) - Introduction
Dec 08
Usable Help, writen by Gordon R. Meyer, contains a great onscreen help gallery.
Dec 06
Today I looked for icons for using them in our applications. I have searched the web for free and commercial icon sets and found the following web pages:
Tutorials
Collections
Specialized icon set
Linux
Commercial icon sets
Icon editors
Custom icon design companies
I am looking for Windows XP style icons. Now I am wondering how other developers are creating icons for their own applications. Do you create or buy your own icons for your applications or are you using free icon resources? Can anybody recommend icon sets or icon design companies?
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Dec 02
The new JDK 5.0 Update 6 patch release is available for download. Hava a look at the release notes for latest bugfixes.
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