A quick follow-up to part 2 of this series. The point here is important…when users make mistakes, present the errors in a way so that your visitors and understand what the problem is and what they need to do to fix it. Do Your Web Forms Show Good Form?, Part 3

Not to be out done, Microsoft is now saying that their pervasive search tool (like X1) will launch before Longhorn in 2006. Maybe this has something to do with Google announcing an upcoming beta of this kind of tool… Yahoo! News – Microsoft to Launch New Search Technology

Bad web metrics drive me nuts. Not only that people who say that they can't measure traffic from a banner ad or search engine, make me roll my eyes. On the other side of the coin I hate web metrics software that dumps tons of useless data in front of the user. It can be…

A great article that all CIOs, IT managers, and tech savvy marketers should read. Bottom line: Nessicity adversity are both mother's of invention. Locking down software and tools, like internal blogs or company blogs, is not going to help in the long run. The people thinking outside of the box by tapping into these technologies…

And I thought I was the only one who jumped when the phone rang thinking “What is that strange sound? Oh, the phone!” I definitely prefer e-mail and IM to phone calls. My wife and I IM between my and her home offices. The phone is great and I often “resort” to it when the…

Follow up to the previous article posted here. Bad web forms can kill a very good e-commerce site faster than you can say close window. Part 1 is here Do Your Web Forms Show Good Form?, Part 2

Great interview. Worth reading all three pages. Clearly this blog is “Blogger Powered”, but the ideas presented here are important. I'm not chearleading for Blogger. I like Blogger and all, being free is important, but I would like to try other open-source or GPL blog software in the future. Google's Blogger Boss Focuses on the…

Webfeeds and blogging must be important if Microsoft wants to get their figures into. I'm sure they'll use their money to launch a free Blogging site to complete with Blogger and link it to MSN. Then they'll add interesting features, but will only work if you use IE…then the marketshare daemon will raise it's ugly…

If you write for the web read this article. Ms Dwyer makes excellent points (many of which I am going to apply to my redesigned site soon), the only one I am waffling on is writing in first and second person. Common business practice is to write in the third person for things like “Larix…

An interesting move, given MoveableType's recent licensing changes. I haven't tried Radio Userland. I did try using Frontier in my by-gone Mac days and met Dave Winer at a MacWorld in 1995. Even though some think that blogging is now passé, I think it is actually starting a renaissance. With the explosion of RSS and…