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30th May 2006

Microsoft Takes on the JPEG

“Microsoft’s new Windows Media Photo image format specification is finally seeing the light of day. The software company began lobbying for WMPhoto to replace the JPEG image format this week at WindowsHEC in Seattle. Microsoft has taken the image compression spec out of development and has labeled it as a final release. There is also word that MS is keeping the standard totally free, but licensing details are still being worked out.”

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30th May 2006

Adobe Labs: Spry framework for Ajax

“The Spry framework for Ajax is a JavaScript library for web designers that provides functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to bring Ajax to the web design community who can benefit from Ajax, but are not well served by other frameworks.”

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30th May 2006

User Experience Week 2006

“We’ll be heading back to Washington D.C. with more sessions and more speakers than ever, including special guest presenters Steven Johnson, Michael Bierut, Jeff Veen, Jared Spool, Nate Bolt, Dan Brown along with members of Adaptive Path. We’re developing all new curriculum for this year’s User Experience Week. And we’re presenting sessions in two tracks that will offer practitioner skills development as well as product management strategy and business value methods.”

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