I was super excited this morning when I got an invite to Google Wave. I've read about it, but whilst there's been a lot of hype around it no-one seems to describe it such that I've really got it. Note - don't expect me to be any different, I tried to explain to my boyfriend ...
Check out the video from Google, below. I thought it was really cute. Google docs is a great, free alternative to MS Office, but that's not where the real power of it lies. For collaboration, for any document that anyone else is going to use, it's such a better alternative. During the summer, I was working for ...
A blogger I read, wrote this post commenting on SEO. I suggest you read it, because it's good, but in brief the question she's asking is - what is SEO? Why isn't blogging about content? I commented on her post, but I think my thoughts on SEO merit their own little forum. So here we ...
Saw this video the other day - Google in New York asking people if they know what a browser is. Most people didn't. Or rather - they essentially think the browser is Google. Is the browser so pervasive that people don't register that it's a distinct "thing"? Or does the average user basically just not have any understanding ...
Recently, I tried to pay my Rogers (Canada) bill online. Considering that you’re trying to give them money they really make it very difficult for you. Eventually I managed to set up an e-billing account for my banking. Linking this to Rogers for some reason necessitated downloading Firefox, as it does not support Safari (this ...
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the “average user”. Who are they? What do they use their computer for? What do they know? And – I think this is the most interesting question: How much do they care about the things we [programmers] spend all our time on? I recently wrote a paper about Microsoft’s ...
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