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6th October 2003

Watson

“An innovative utility that bypasses the web browser. Makes getting information from the Web simple and straightforward. Presenting Watson for Mac OS X: A time-saving ‘Swiss Army Knife’ program that packs over 20 time-saving, productivity-enhancing interfaces to the most important web content and services.”

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6th October 2003

Help the Googlebot understand your web site

“Google is the best search engine on the ‘net right now. The Googlebot is Google’s indexing software. The Googlebot visits billions of web sites over time and records their contents, which makes them available to search. The Googlebot is very smart and works really well. But, like everyone, it could use a little help from its friends.”

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6th October 2003

Soft Skills for Information Architecture

“For people looking to transition from their present role to take on information architecture duties, or for those who currently have these duties and would like to continue to grow and improve, an excellent approach to the softer side of IA is to build on a solid foundation of IA principles, techniques, and skills. Applying the soft skills correctly will help you organizationally and politically while you are actually applying the skills specific to information architecture.”

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6th October 2003

Firdamatic

“Firdamatic is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily only by completing forms, making creating skins for your Firdamatic-based layout a breeze.”

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6th October 2003

Watson

“An innovative utility that bypasses the web browser. Makes getting information from the Web simple and straightforward. Presenting Watson for Mac OS X: A time-saving ‘Swiss Army Knife’ program that packs over 20 time-saving, productivity-enhancing interfaces to the most important web content and services.”

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