Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Ltd: News for Today, May 19

An interesting development in the VPN market. VPNs are interesting beasts. I'd have a love-hate relationship with them for a while now. The last one I worked with was decent, but being connected to it brought my surfing to crawl and wreaked havok with my other e-mail apps. This is primarily why I think secure…

I know that IM has been essential for me to do my job for 4 years. I was responsible for IM being pushed as part of a large Canadian telco. I had been working with a web development company and we used Yahoo's IM client extensively. It then spread internally and when this company was…

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

First post on the new View from the Isle location!

Sometimes you have an epiphany that you'd like to post to your blog, but maybe you're on the bus, or ferry, or some other place where you're not connected to the Internet. Okay, you could use notepad or other text editor, write your thoughts down and then copy and paste into your blog through the…

Blogging Renaissance Blogs are experiencing a renaissance lately. If you're not familiar with blogs here's the short explanation. Blogs (short for weblogs) were developed as an online diary or journal about five years ago. Bloggers, as they are commonly known, would post entries on their blogs on what ever topic the blog was about or…