I wonder if the real prize of Zend Developer Zone’s “Contest for Busy Programmers (Win a Free Book!)“-contest is better Google search engine ranking for the site itself — due to an increased number of incoming links from (hopefully?) lots of bloggers… Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Buzz it up Subscribe [...]
All posts for the month October, 2007
SEO with Contests?
Posted by Trond on October 25, 2007
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/uncategorized/2007/seo-with-contests/
Radiohead – In Rainbows
In case anyone hasn’t heard by now, Radiohead’s newest album In Rainbows may be purchased online. The nice thing is that the buyer decides the price. The web form in the online store allows you to type in any amount ranging from £0 to £99:99. And it is a great album. Btw: quite interesting web [...]
Posted by Trond on October 25, 2007
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/uncategorized/2007/radiohead-in-rainbows/
Thoughts on Topic Maps Driven UIs
During his open space session on a possible Topic Maps driven Web 3.0 (or whatever one may want to call it) at TMRA 2007, Graham Moore rushed past a slide that mentioned ontology driven user interefaces. To my knowledge, researchers have already touched upon this problem (see for example Furtado et. al., 2001) but I [...]
Posted by Trond on October 15, 2007
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2007/thoughts-on-topic-maps-driven-uis/
TMRA 2007
This year I was lucky enough to get to participate at the TMRA 2007 conference in Leipzig, Germany. It was very interesting to hear some of the most prominent topic mappers giving talks on a range of interesting subjects, and promising to see that the community is getting there and that the missing standards work [...]
Posted by Trond on October 15, 2007
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/semantic-web/tm/2007/tmra-2007/
Say What?
I wonder how many of Windows Live Hotmail’s members knows how to delete the temporary Internet files in their browser’s cache. “What’s ‘cache’, anyways?”, I’m sure thousands of users ask themselves. Screen shot of Windows Live Hotmail not loading. Haha! They brought this one on themselves. (I still remember the e-mails we used to receive [...]
Posted by Trond on October 10, 2007
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/usability/2007/say-what/
Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites
Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think, a quick and good read btw, made me aware of an article entitled Guidelines for Accessible and Usable Web Sites: Observing Users Who Work. The article gives good insight into why it is important to do things right on the front end (Norwegian literates should read Kuttisme.no’s checklist on [...]
Posted by Trond on October 2, 2007
http://www.topicobserver.com/blog/usability/2007/guidelines-for-accessible-and-usable-web-sites/