Category: User Experience
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Hacker exploits Blogger bug to post fake entry to Google blog
Film at 11: Official Google Blog: About that fake post
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Open wifi spoofing
Dan and I flew into JFK on JetBlue last night and we noticed that JetBlue offers free wifi in their waiting area, but while trying to access this service we noticed several open peer-to-networks labeled “Jet Blue hot spot” or variations on that name. None of these were the actual free access point (which was…
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Part two of the chapter on competitive analysis from Dan Brown's 'Communicating Design'
Digital Web has now published the second part of the Competitive Analysis chapter from Dan Brown’s book, Communicating Design.
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Freehand and GoLive officially deprecated
Todd Warfel reports that the inevitable bakeoff inside the Adobe-Macromedia merger has resulted in the winding down of FreeHand (in favor of Illustrator) and GoLive (in favor of Dreamweaver). (btw, I know this was in May – so I’m slow on the uptake – so sue me!)
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What to do about clickfraud?
This Slashdot article on an IE/Y!IM clickfraud exploit makes me wonder if the whole basis of online advertising is under assault, if there’s a chance we could see the sort of collapse that followed the banner-ad kiting practices of bubble 1.0, and if some new models of search engine ad-word placement are going to have…
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Bad ad placement
I was perusing my friend Levi Asher‘s digg page (he is “asheresque” there and elsewhere online), and I stumbled upon this nearly not-safe-for-work blog entry about a particularly unhappy juxtaposition of banner ads.