May 1, 1999
Microsoft Backstage: Creating an Effective Web Interface Requires Careful Planning and Testing.
Learn about the process we use to find that overlap between design and function, the sweet spot where the user can quickly accomplish necessary tasks.
SJ Mercury: Double standards on Net tax.
Dan Gillmor. As Internet commerce accelerates -- and it will, because there would be some genuine advantages even in a tax-neutral world -- the undermining of the tax base will force Congress to deal with the matter.
DaveNet: Who Owns .Com?
Esther poses the possibility that we could have another Internet, one that wouldn't be based on .Com names.
NY Times: World Body Proposes Outlawing 'Cybersquatting' on Internet Addresses.
The report to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the first attempt by any official governing body to draft an international set of rules for registering domain names.
Web Page Design for Designers: Body Language.
Regardless of the contents of a Web site, it has a visual personality. Replace all the words with 'Greeking' and that personality still shines through.
InfoWorld: Dubious marketing ploys at Buy.com expose the seamy side of e-commerce.
So is this on-the-fly editing of terms another technique we can be expecting other e-businesses to add to their repertoire?
Forbes ASAP: Ditch Your User Names and Passwords.
Keeping track of all these aliases and their accompanying magic words has become a major problem: More than 50% of web site customer support calls concern lost (i.e. forgotten!) user names and passwords...
NY Times: Israeli Scientist Reports Discovery of Advance in Code Breaking.
An Israeli computer scientist is expected to shake up the world of cryptography this week when he introduces a design for a device that could quickly unscramble computer-generated codes...
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