March 11, 2001
SJ Mercury: The Internet is only getting started on huge innovations.
Dan Gillmor. Now that the Internet bubble has deflated, we can get on with what makes the technology world so fascinating and its prospects so limitless. Smart people are getting back to the basics -- coming up with great new ideas that may, just may, change the world.
IBM Ease of Use: Putting it to the test.
At the Fidelity laboratory, there have been over 120 usability tests of web sites or applications in the past three years. The new state-of-the-art lab doubles the testing capacity of the original one, which Tullis helped establish, and employs a wide range of new evaluation techniques.
Dan Bricklin: How the Napster injunction affect directories on the Internet.
In most cases so far, the actual details are such that the legal burdens on the technology will not slow its adoption in other areas. This is not an endorsement of those decisions, but a call to other judges to make sure their decisions don't inadvertently kill off whole areas of possible innovation.
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