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30 April 2000
Netting Fidel
Neem een Hongaar met een duister zakenverleden, Internet en het land van wereldberoemde bootvluchtelingetjes en je hebt een interessant verhaal over de digitalisering van Castro's eiland.
› › › The Standard
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:58 PM ]
Social Life of Information
Interview met de auteurs van 'The Social Life of Information'. Een uitstekend boek, dat de mens centraal stelt bij alle technologische innovatie. 'All those issues that don't seem to be part of an information delivery system, like judgment, adaptability, and socialization, are what people actually want.' Bij FirstMonday kun je het eerste hoofdstuk lezen.
› › › Universitybusiness
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 15:34 PM ]
29 April 2000
Napster: The Most Important App Since Sex
Don't be fooled by the publicity around Napster. If you believe what you read, you'll think that it's a way of sharing MP3 music files that's crippling the bandwidth of major universities. While that's true, it misses the point, casting it in an inappropriate light.
› › › Hyperorg
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 18:23 PM ]
Propaganda
When you download pirate MP3's......
› › › Propaganda
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:56 PM ]
28 April 2000
Interview with the search engine
Een interview met Ask Jeeves.
› › › Satire Wire
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:46 PM ]
Time to close the web?
Focusing on presentation at the expense of content, and invasive money-making schemes at the expense of everything else, designers must take some of the blame for the trashing of the web. Herrell wonders if it's time to call it a day and close up shop.
› › › AlistApart
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:41 PM ]
Whassup? Elián Parody Steams the AP
Bonner adds, "We had 5000 hits by the time I came in Wednesday, and by 10 a.m. it was 20,000. Before noon it was almost 100,000, and by Wednesday night we had 600,000 hits. I had set up a new email address to go to my home server, and we had more than 700 emails -- and now more since we posted our letter from the AP."
› › › Playboy
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:14 PM ]
The Radical Philanthropist
"Feeding children is very important, and we're saying 'no' to that," Omidyar concedes. Their agenda is somewhat evanescent: They hope to rebuild a sense of community in America. They see the phenomena of kids killing kids, hunger among plenty, elderly living alone and families breaking down--all because of frayed connections. "People on the street won't look you in the eye, because they are afraid you're an ax murderer," Pierre Omidyar says. "The idea of a community, with difference and common responsibility, has been lost in America. We want to bring it back."
› › › Forbes
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:12 PM ]
27 April 2000
Vraag het aan Jezus
Behold, ye shepards and heed MY words...... wel toepasselijk zo vlak na Pasen.
› › › Askjesus
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 20:10 PM ]
The design challenge of pervasive computing
What happens to society when there are hundreds of microchips for every man, woman and child on the planet? What cultural consequences follow when every object around us is 'smart', and connected? And what happens psychologically when you step into the garden to look at the flowers - and the flowers look at you? These controversial questions were the focus of the keynote speech by John Thackara, director of Doors of Perception, at CHI2000 in The Hague.
› › › Doorsofperception
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 12:04 PM ]
26 April 2000
Mediajammers
Met de komst van SBS6 en andere commerciële zenders krijgen wij ook te maken met reporters die eigenlijk geen nieuws brengen maar eigenlijk alleen maar voor de camera staan om hun eigen ego te bevredigen.
In de V.S. hebben de tv-netwerken de kunst van het non-verhaal al veel langer in de vingers....en Amerika zou Amerika niet zijn als er een tegenbeweging(kje) ontstaat. LObStEr paradeert rustig door het beeld heen tijdens een live uitzending, soms met een knuffelkoalabeer of 'gewoon' met een mobiele telefoon. Een klein gebaar tegen grote idioterie....
› › › wOop
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 21:36 PM ]
25 April 2000
Puntjes
Weer een leuk speeltje ontdekt.........
› › › Gravilux
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 22:49 PM ]
24 April 2000
Nielsen
Adobe ondervraagt Jakob Nielsen. Niet veel nieuwe dingen maar altijd leeswaardig.
› › › Adobe
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 20:27 PM ]
23 April 2000
Lift Online
Through a simple on-line process, as a web site owner or a web site professional you will be able to request a usability report of your complete web site or a potential customer's site. You also be able to customize the analysis by defining the type of user and purpose of the site.The resulting report with advices based on established industry usability rules can be used to improve the site. Existing problems are ranked by their severity.
Jakob Nielsen in a box?
› › › Usablenet.com
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 12:42 PM ]
22 April 2000
eNormicom
Here's the innovative tagline we've come up with: "Really. Really. Different." With this tagline, you’re sure to see definitive statistical results. Watch..
› › › eNormicom
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 23:33 PM ]
19 April 2000
Butch
Dankzij Zeldman.com heb ik weer een briljant stukje marketing ontdekt. 'After a hard day licking my balls and sniffing my girlfriend's arse, I like to tuck into something really tasty.'
In Nieuw Zeeland waren ze niet zo gediend van de reclamecampagne voor dierenvoer. Maar wat mij betreft mogen ze in ruil voor dit soort vermaak alle topfokkers en hun gekgefokte Golden Retrievers eens en voor altijd van de buis weren.
› › › Ad graveyard
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 17:07 PM ]
You're_a_Loser.com
It is about time someone wrote an antidote to the books of Po Bronson. That's not to suggest that Bronson's writings -- depicting a Silicon Valley of hopeful high-powered geek geniuses whose achievements have industry-wide repercussions -- aren't enjoyable; but anyone who has spent some serious time in the Valley knows that the Net biz ain't all it's cracked up to be.
› › › Salon.com
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 10:25 AM ]
18 April 2000
Dotcom CEOs are vapid, empty, shallow - and that's the good ones
The future of many dot coms is "hollow.com", according to George Colony, the chairman of Forrester Research. They are about to be exposed for what they are, says Colony: vapid, shallow and hollow.
› › › The Register
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 9:31 AM ]
Romp.com
The ROMP is a freewheeling entertainment destination cut from the unruliness and irreverence of the Internet. Our no holds barred animations, videos, and games give voice to a new generation of artists both inside and outside Hollywood. The ROMP allows users to set the limits, break them, and get a good laugh out of it. But don't take our word for it.
› › › Smaakvol
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 9:07 AM ]
17 April 2000
American Psycho
The '80s were an era of greed and corruption and unprecedented shallowness, aided and abetted by rancid pop music like Huey Lewis' "Hip to Be Square" and the inescapable horror of giant shoulder pads in ladies' suits. If this is news to you, then Mary Harron's "American Psycho," with its clinically ironic approach and awkwardly big-boned sense of humor, will be a highly edifying document. Then again, if you want a taste of the era you could just get ahold of a few "Family Ties" reruns.
› › › AmericanPsycho
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 21:08 PM ]
Luke Skywalker Is Gay?
Meanwhile, in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker has gone over to the Dark Side—and I'm not talking about his infatuation with Han Solo, though that's as hot as ever. "Han turned his head, tipped my palm up, pressed his lips to the center of it. … His kiss connected with the core of me."
Sadly, we'll never see Luke and Han smooching on the big screen. Their torrid romance is occurring only in the fevered imagination of one pseudonymous Destina Fortunato, an acolyte of one of the oddest and most delightful subcultures on the Web: fan fiction. In "fanfic," as practitioners call it, devotees of a TV show, movie, or (less often) book write stories about its characters. They chronicle the alternative adventures of Xena, warrior princess; open the X files that Mulder and Scully don't dare touch; and fill in the back story to Star Wars Episode I.
› › › Slate.com
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 8:36 AM ]
14 April 2000
Creativity met wwwurk
Om de creatieve sapjes zo vroeg op de morgen aan het stromen te krijgen is het bezoeken van creativity web wellicht een aanrader. Een van de beschreven technieken op de site heet 'fuzzy thinking'........mmm, waar was ik ook al weer mee bezig?
› › › Creativity web
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 23:45 PM ]
Americana
That is the profile of the 102 killers in 100 rampage attacks examined by The New York Times in a computer-assisted study looking back more than 50 years and including the shootings in 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., and one by a World War II veteran on a residential street in Camden, N.J., in 1949. Four hundred twenty-five people were killed and 510 people were injured in the attacks. The database, which primarily focused on cases in the last decade, is believed to be the largest ever compiled on this phenomenon in the United States. (registratie verplicht: NYTimes)
› › › Rampage Killers/ Part one: a statistical portrait
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 8:53 AM ]
Open Source: The Model for Collaboration in the Age of the Internet
The Model for Collaboration in the Age of the Internet (via
Captain Cursor) -- "Just as the spread of literacy in the late middle ages disenfranchised old power structures and led to the flowering of the renaissance, it's been the ability of individuals to share knowledge outside the normal channels that has led to our current explosion of innovation. Just as ease of travel helped new ideas to spread, wide area networking has allowed ideas to spread and take root in new ways. Open source is ultimately about communication."
› › › O'Reilly Network
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 8:24 AM ]
12 April 2000
Potientiemeter
...nooit geweten dat een flash filmpje zo vermoeiend kon zijn.
› › › uuhaah
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 15:27 PM ]
iWhacked
In de V.S. schieten ze tegenwoordig iMacs aan diggelen om een consumentensite te promoten. Maast de iBrator is er nu ook de IWhacked gallery. Nog meer spoofs op het succesverhaal van Apple.....
› › › Webslacker
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 11:29 AM ]
11 April 2000
Skin Cancer
Long relegated to the back seat of the software development process in favor of ever-more useless features, usability has recently been chloroformed, hog-tied and stuffed in the trunk. Exhibit A: the newly prereleased Netscape 6. The tyranny of the skins has begun.
› › › Suck.com
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 14:31 PM ]
Dao of web design
Web designers often bemoan the malleable nature of the web, which seems to defy our efforts at strict control over layout and typography. But maybe the problem is not the web. Maybe the problem is us. John Allsopp looks at web design through the prism of the T'ao Te Ching, and decides that designers should let the web be the web.
› › › Alistapart
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 6:59 AM ]
10 April 2000
Scheren, wassen, knippen?
Police in Laval, Quebec, Canada, heard the rumors and conducted a two-month-long undercover operation to see if they were true. A salon in town, Le Salon Sex Symbol, reportedly offered extras with haircuts: depending on how much customers paid, police say, hair stylists would talk dirty, show their breasts, strip naked, or even engage in sex. Three female stylists and five male customers were arrested, charged with working in or frequenting a house of prostitution. And haircuts? "We found some hair on the ground," a police spokesman confirmed. "One of the men got his hair cut. They have a few clients who just go for that." (AP)
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:58 PM ]
9 April 2000
Sissyfight
SiSSYFiGHT 2000 is, like, an intense war between a bunch of girls who are all out to ruin each other's popularity and self-esteem. The object is to physically attack and majorly dis your enemies until they are totally mortified beyond belief. You'll never come out on top without making the right friends, so be careful who you're nice to. Because in the end, only the shrewdest will survive with their social status intact!
› › › Sissy
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:17 PM ]
8 April 2000
Your Customer Isn't An Idiot
There are only two things of importance. One is the customer, and the other is the product. If you take care of customers, they come back. If you take care of your product, it doesn't come back. It's just that simple. And it's just that difficult.
› › › Hatfactory
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 10:29 AM ]
7 April 2000
netopath
Internet brengt naast goedkope muziek, urenlang surfplezier en een op hol geslagen beursklimaat ook een apart taaltje met zich mee. Keith Dawson verzamelt op zijn website de meest smaakvolle verbasteringen van de Engelse taal.
› › › Jargon Scout
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 19:35 PM ]
6 April 2000
He's not going there anymore
Face it, the online audience is tired. They're tired of ads, they're tired of email coupons, they're tired of banners, they're tired of bait and switch, they're tired of semi-cleverly personalized communication.
You may be marketing, but they're not listening. And all of these marketing programs from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery school just make things worse.
› › › Upside
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 16:22 PM ]
Undernet serves as hearth and home for high-tech anarchists
Arguably, the recording industry has lost its chance to outflank the spread of free MP3 wares. That toothpaste is not going to go back into the tube. Had the industry been willing to embrace Internet distribution and to supply what its market wanted, so cheaply and easily that illegal copying would not have been worth the bother, then the trickle of bootleg MP3s would never have built into the torrent it has become.
› › › digitalMASS
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 14:29 PM ]
5 April 2000
Ask an Expert
These days, it seems as if everyone's an expert. Thousands of people have flocked to dozens of Web sites that give them a forum to field questions about anything at all. Some are "experts" for fun, some for ego gratification, and some for money or to generate business leads. You can be one, too. Whether you fancy yourself an expert in one or many fields or you're a person looking for help, advice, or answers, a visit to a few of these sites will prove that there's something of a Q&A phenomenon going on out there.
› › › ZDNet
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 11:43 AM ]
Hackers can make your PC explode
Hackers can now turn your home computer into a bomb and blow your family to smithereens, and do so remotely from thousands of miles away, the Weekly World News reports.
› › › The Register
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 11:26 AM ]
4 April 2000
Foes of 'New Economy' Gaining Voice
Jon Katz, a media critic and author of the new book "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" (Villard Books, 2000), agrees. "What you're seeing shape up is the first big political battle of the 21st century, between individualism and corporatism," Katz says.
Katz follows the growing numbers of young computer mavens who are loosely allied as proponents of open source software, free expression, an open Internet and radical individualism.
These are the young people who are increasingly challenging corporations that are trying to lock down the Internet and secure it for commerce. The mounting wars over intellectual property and network security are just the beginning, Katz says.
› › › LA Times
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 12:24 PM ]
De kleine reus
Ultimate Bulletin Board (UBB) is one of the most popular discussion board systems on the Web. Ted O'Neill of Infopop, the people behind UBB, talks about the software and his company's refreshing philosophy.
› › › Q & A
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 7:13 AM ]
3 April 2000
Fun with grapes
Schillen, nuken, feest!
› › › A Case Study
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 17:24 PM ]
Goedkoop, snel en sexy
Voor 25 dollar trouwen, goedkoper kan bijna niet. En voor 25 dollar extra wordt er ook nog Elvis voor je gedraaid.....
› › › Weddings at the 24 Hour Church of Elvis
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 17:17 PM ]
VPRO goes Open Source
MMBase is a software program used for supporting complex, content-rich websites and other online content: the input, maintenance and reuse of content and functionality are the most important aspects here. All content exists in modular-form databases so that it can be used very flexibly.
Over the past few years, this software has been developed to maintain the content (texts, images, audio, video) of the various VPRO websites. The system is used by different kinds of employees (program makers, producers, editors) and a lot of effort has been put into the user interface for the various kinds of use.
› › › MMBase
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 15:49 PM ]
Brownpants
THIS PAGE LOOKS BETTER IF YOU HAVE A REALLY EXPENSIVE COMPUTER. IF YOU WANT TO ENTER THE ARENA ANYWAY CLICK *HERE* IDIOT.
Kan het vriendelijker?
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 11:23 AM ]
Mooi
Ook in Thailand zijn er goede webdesigners en een nog mooiere Utada Hikaru.....
› › › Projectbox
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 11:20 AM ]
Venice vs. the Venetian
Where would you rather go: to the smelly old city the Italians have been selling for centuries or the Las Vegas version, where you can find parking and a decent pastrami sandwich?
Cultuur volgens Amerikanen........
› › › Forbes.com
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 9:37 AM ]
A sense of Well being
Salon.com besteed aandacht aan het 15 jarig bestaan van The Well.
'And plenty of exceptionally interesting people, like the ones Brand and Brilliant hand-picked to start the party 15 years ago, still hang out on the Well, trading ideas, decrying conspiracies, critiquing movies, restaurants and each other. The sum total of their communication has provided an invaluable road map over the years for anyone interested in exploring the possibilities and problems inherent in the notion of community online.'
Ofwel, hoe je zonder commerciële belangen een succesvolle gemeenschap kunt stichten op Internet.
› › › Salon.com
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 7:16 AM ]
1 April 2000
Reputation Managers are Happening
A reputation manager is an independent service that keeps track of the rated quality, credibility, or some other desirable metric for each element in a set. The things being rated will typically be websites, companies, products, or people, but in theory anything can have a reputation that users may want to look up before taking action or doing business.
› › › Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox
[ Joris Huijbregts @ 17:04 PM ]
De reus wankelt.
Volgens een artikel van MSNBC is de macht van Microsoft aan het slinken, doordat een groep belangrijke medewerkers zijn gaan werken bij dot.com start-ups. Ook de toenemende concurrentie van bedrijven als RealNetworks, een conflict met de Amerikaanse overheid en de decentralisatie van de macht, nodig om bij te blijven in de Iconomy, laat het bedrijf van Bill Gates minder gesmeerd lopen.
› › › Microsoft enters uncertain era
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