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21st March 2000

Web Gallery of Art

“The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750), currently containing over 6,000 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available.”

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21st March 2000

Web gets animated

“New forms of entertainment often sputter until they produce a Superman — an iconic figure that draws the masses to the medium. The Internet has yet to find its Superman, but John Evershed, chief executive of Mondo Media in San Francisco, predicts that one will turn up in the next year or two. And that character, like the comic-book superhero, is likely to be a cartoon.”

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21st March 2000

The Redesigning Of America

“High style isn’t highbrow. In fact, it’s everywhere, for everyone, in everything from can openers to CD racks to cars. …the design world is humming with an eclectic mix of impresarios and entrepreneurs intent on earning a living from making the beautiful things in your life. There are big corporate players, like Sony and Ford and Philips, the European electronics consortium. There are architects and designers — iconoclasts like Philippe Starck and young upstarts like Jasper Morrison or Marc Newson. Or businessmen like David Neeleman, whose no-frills but chic airline, JetBlue, began flying last month.”

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21st March 2000

Flashgamer.com

“Flashgamer.com — Your source for free Flash 4 online games. Play games at no charge. All games created with Macromedia Flash 4. 100% Flash, 100% Fun… As of today, the site features 8 timewasters made with Flash, and more is to come.”

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21st March 2000

Flashgamer.com

“Flashgamer.com — Your source for free Flash 4 online games. Play games at no charge. All games created with Macromedia Flash 4. 100% Flash, 100% Fun… As of today, the site features 8 timewasters made with Flash, and more is to come.”

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21st March 2000

Web gets animated

“New forms of entertainment often sputter until they produce a Superman — an iconic figure that draws the masses to the medium. The Internet has yet to find its Superman, but John Evershed, chief executive of Mondo Media in San Francisco, predicts that one will turn up in the next year or two. And that character, like the comic-book superhero, is likely to be a cartoon.”

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21st March 2000

The Redesigning Of America

“High style isn’t highbrow. In fact, it’s everywhere, for everyone, in everything from can openers to CD racks to cars. …the design world is humming with an eclectic mix of impresarios and entrepreneurs intent on earning a living from making the beautiful things in your life. There are big corporate players, like Sony and Ford and Philips, the European electronics consortium. There are architects and designers — iconoclasts like Philippe Starck and young upstarts like Jasper Morrison or Marc Newson. Or businessmen like David Neeleman, whose no-frills but chic airline, JetBlue, began flying last month.”

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21st March 2000

Wotsit: The Programmer’s File Format Collection

“Wotsit’s Format, the complete programmer’s resource on the net. This site contains file format information on hundreds of different file types and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.”

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21st March 2000

Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users

“Some people think that usability is very costly and complex and that user tests should be reserved for the rare web design project with a huge budget and a lavish time schedule. Not true. Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.”

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