“In 1998, design engineers at TiVo, the Silicon Valley company that helped introduce the digital video recorder to the world, set out to produce a distinctive remote control. The result was a textbook blend of complexity and ease of use.”
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“thecounter.comís stats live again. Not to be used as a final word, but as good an indication as youíll find of the global climate, their stats are aggregated from a widely distributed hit counter script, and presumably sample a broad cross-section of the population.”
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“Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 800 million messages dating back to 1981. This is by far the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account. We compiled some especially memorable articles and threads in the timeline below. For example, read Tim Berners-Lee’s announcement of what became the World Wide Web or Linus Torvalds’ post about his ‘pet project.’”
“Recently artists have become increasingly interested in maps… This study examines the use of maps in art, looks at why there has been an increase in artists interest in the use of maps, and what use they make of maps. This will be put into context by looking at a brief history of the development of maps and the ways maps are used today and the meanings they have accrued.”
“Here you’ll find a whole bunch of links to some of the vast resources out there. These are places I’ve have gone to and still visit for help and to learn. As new resources are constantly popping up, watch this space for changes. I’ve tried to order stuff as logically as possible.”
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“Iím presently involved with the design of the corporate library sites at LucentóI work on information architecture, interaction design and developmentóand Iíve been thinking a lot about aspects of the growth and evolution of the site and how this growth affects navigation… I need some way of exploring alternatives, but I donít want to change the site too drastically without having some justification for doing so, so about a month ago I asked our systems administrator to come up with ways to track where links are being clicked on the page.”
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