It’s disturbing to read that a relatively obscure web design firm has gone and patented an invention involving rich media apps like AJAX. What’s also disturbing is how they were even awarded the patent in the first place. This would definitely hamper the development of more innovative web services.
Somebody obviously got hold of my office contact details, because I received a letter from one of those Nigerian fraudsters today. A paper letter, not an e-mail. Signed by a human hand. The stamps from the letter came from Cameroon, but the author claimed to represent a Nigerian petroleum company. The amount was US$30 million…
The Poynter Institute reports that Dave Winer is in negotiations with the New York Times to open their archives to people linking from weblogs. Now this may be good news for some of us, but I forsee that this permission may be exploited. It’s asserted elsewhere however that this benefit will apply only to Userland…
I think my rights as a web designer have been blatantly disregarded of late, so allow me to draw some attention to an article on how (NOT) to work with designers. Better communication, understanding and support = better creative output, I say. Cheers to Kottonwool Kim for mentioning this article. As for me, I think…
My list of regular reads, bookmarked in Newsmonster, disappeared mysteriously today. I didn’t install any new software before that, so I am still wondering why it happened. I re-installed Newsmonster and rebooted my computer, but it didn’t help. Strangely, folders containing data on my list of newsfeeds still reside in my hard drive. I tried…
Macromedia has revamped its website (nice!) and released a new version of its popular Studio MX series. The product name is a bit of a mouthful: Studio MX 2004. But the specs look good. As I had hoped, Dreamweaver MX 2004 has more integrated CSS support. Among other useful tweaks, you can now import Office…
I’m posting this in case the friend who sent me an email containing the W32.Bugbear virus (inadvertently, I presume) at about 2.03 pm today, is reading this. Could you kindly check your inbox again and delete any strange-looking emails from unfamiliar sources. And while you’re at it, do install a decent antivirus program which scans…
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I don’t think this will go anywhere. I bet it has as much luck as the company that patented the hperlink, or Amazon’s patent of 1-click purchases.
I certainly hope so!