Not So Obvious

	Dienstag, 19. August 2003

How to build a rich, interactive Webtop for Web 2.0.
"The first step is to do everything that is possible with the existing browser (IE primarily) behind the scenes. What do I mean? A desktop CMS (content management system) with hooks to open Web 2.0 transport networks would provide the ability to recombine data and content custom ways within an existing browser. With that in place, the second step is to build a new presentation layer that goes beyond the constraints of a vanilla Internet Explorer (by putting the CMS in place first, it is easier to leverage the capabilities of the enhanced browser). Here are some ways to do this: "

Hire a development company like Social DynamX to build a custom interface that leverages Internet Explorer to provide a better user experience. See FM Radio for an example of an Web Services powered rich client interface built on IE.
Build it yourself using a development tool like Zeepe. FYI, they also have an example built on UserLand Radio called Radio Case.
Trash IE entirely and build a customized version of Mozilla.
Build a Macromedia Flash MX application that runs inside the browser locally. Here's a server side example. Any local examples? Another method is to build a custom app using Macromedia Central and trash the browser entirely.

[John Robb's Weblog]
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	Montag, 18. August 2003

Usability: Eine Diplomarbeit
Usability ist in der Praxis eine überaus spannende Angelegenheit. Theoretisch kann sie jedoch manchmal sehr trocken daherkommen, vor allem wenn sie zum Thema einer Diplomarbeit wird. Es gibt aber auch erfrischende Diplomarbeiten über Usability, und eine solche (seine eigene) hat mir Usability-Inside-Leser Nils Römeling geschickt: "Usability im WWW. Redesign eines Webauftritts mit Hilfe von Usability...
[Usability Inside | web-blog.net]
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	Dienstag, 12. August 2003

BloGTK
BloGTK is a weblog client that allows you to post to your weblog from Linux without the need for a separate browser window. BloGTK allows you to connect with many weblog systems such as Blogger, Movable Type, pMachine, and more. BloGTK is written using Python and PyGTK, and is designed to be fast and simple to use.

BloGTK is open-source software released under the BSD license, which means that it is completely free for use.

BloGTK won't make you more attractive to the opposite sex, it won't create world peace, and it doesn't make julienne fries. It does make updating your weblog from Linux much easier and more efficient. On the other hand, that could make you more attractive to the opposite sex.
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Great piece
by Tim Bray that explains how designers should use XML. He describes the Worse Is Better school of XML format design. The names we use for elements are the worst-possible names, but they allow our software to interoperate. Namespaces create elements with names with colons in them. I bet Tim agrees that funky feeds, even if they're valid RSS, hurt interop. So much of this is obvious, yet we spend years arguing about it. [Scripting News]
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Disney ports Photoshop to Linux Disney Feature Animation and two other animation studios have funded an effort to make Adobe PhotoShop work on Linux using the Wine emulator, saving an estimated $75,000 a year for Disney. [Workbench] 5:20:27 PM comment []

	Donnerstag, 7. August 2003

Chicken and Egg

Jon Udell: »When I look at today's Web, I see precious little metadata. We mine the scraps we have -- email addresses, URLs, HTML metatags -- for all they're worth. We know intuitively that with more and richer metadata, we could build more and richer applications. People much smarter than me imagine what it would be like if machines could "reason" about the things described with metadata. I'd love to see those people get the chance to do their experiment. So would Tim Bray, who also thinks the Web is "terribly metadata-thin" and has issued a challenge to produce a killer app for RDF (Resource Description Framework).« [Der Schockwellenreiter]
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	Montag, 4. August 2003

Logo art: logotypes.ru (review) Today's pick is a true resource for anyone interested in logos. You could spend hours, even days (if you're really interested), browsing through the enormous library of logo art... [Coolstop Daily Pick [jenett.radio] 9:32:13 PM comment []

An article in News.Com while extremely incendiary, may be seen as the last gasp in the Great RSS War of 2003. [Scripting News] 5:20:29 PM comment []

Sunlog lite YA Weblog tool ... [thomas n. burg \| randgänge] 4:57:23 PM comment []

Firebird's next killer Forget weblog posting popups and textareas the future is Web Panels and XUL. [phil ringnalda dot com] 4:33:48 PM comment []