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Microsoft
Builds CodePlex Developer Site
Open source and Microsoft would have been an oxymoron a decade ago, but Microsoft
has begun embracing the sharing ethos that has given the world software like Linux
and the Apache web server.
Gates
Gives Indian Prostitutes A Discount
Prostitutes in India have the opportunity to become card-carrying members of an
elite group of, um, prostitutes with chip-embedded smartcards courtesy of the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Internet
Companies Unite Against Child Porn
The scum of the Earth just got five new corporate enemies. AOL, Earthlink, Microsoft,
United Online, and Yahoo! have signed on to the National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children's campaign...
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Wiki Full Of MacBook Pro Issues
The computer for the rest of us may require us to have the patience of Job (definitely
not Jobs) and the acumen of a Wozniak when it comes to the MacBook Pro.
No
Banners Please, We're Browsing
Graphical banner ads have become the panhandlers of the Internet: very few people
look at them anymore even if ads are right in front of them.
Digg
V3 Weathers Early Storm
A healthy response to the latest update to the Digg community contributed news
site proved a challenge to the relaunched site's administrators.
Study
Says You're Not Funny
It's nice when a study comes out confirming what you already know. A study published
in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology revealed that just over half
of email recipients...
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Tuesday June 27, 2006 |
A large group of major technology and Web companies have published a set of guidelines
for developing mobile Web content. The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), consisting
of companies like Google, Microsoft, and Nokia, released its "Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0" today as part of a larger effort to make Web more accessible worldwide.
Editor's Note: Are you looking to expand your Web presence
beyond PCs? After looking at the guidelines, is there anything you think they've
missed? Do you have any tips for creating a mobile marketing strategy? Tell us
about it at WebProWorld.
The group says the publication embodies a "broad consensus" of how mobile
web content should be created to avoid technical issues when viewed from mobile
devices. The group also includes tech giants AOL, AT&T, Ericsson, GoDaddy,
and Vodafone.
"There are many devices, but one Web," said Daniel Appelquist, chair of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. "Practical guidelines on how to create content once that can be delivered to the plethora of devices saves developers and organizations time and money. "
"Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" provides practical advice on creating mobile content with instructions for authors, developers, designers, and other content producers wishing to avoid "known pitfalls," such as pop-ups and page-scrolling. In conjunction with the guidelines, W3C has also launched a wiki to collect observations and suggestions, as well as descriptions of implementation experiences.
The group says that readers are not expected to have a background in mobile-specific technologies. The guidelines are intended for creators, maintainers and operators of Websites who have a general familiarity with Web severs and HTTP.
"Nokia believes the use of the Web via mobile browsers will be the next big step towards making information and content available globally to everybody, including billions of people for whom their mobile phone will be their first and only means of Internet access," said Timo Ali-Vehmas, Vice President of Standardization and Industry Relations for Nokia.
"To achieve this it is important to provide the Web community with the right set of tools to make it easier to deliver information and content in mobile-friendly way. Mobile Web Best Practices Candidate Recommendation is an important step towards this goal."
Opera's Chief Standards Officer, Charles McCathieNevile, called the Best Practices release "timely."
"While the best mobile browsers can provide a great internet experience for any content, it is more efficient and more effective when content has been designed to take account of basic design requirements, and these guidelines will help authors to ensure that their content works as well as possible on the entire internet," said McCathieNevile.
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Kent
State Sports Says No To Facebook
 By
David Utter
Student-athletes at Kent State University will have to remove their profiles from
Facebook or risk losing their scholarships. The first question that comes to mind
is "Why just student-athletes?"
The Columbus Dispatch reported on the decision by Kent State to ban its athletes from the networking site.
Athletic director Laing Kennedy's decision affects about 400 athletes at the school, who have until August 1st to remove their profiles or risk reprisals from the university. The reason for this? Protecting student identities and the university's image.
Kennedy said in the report that students who list phone numbers and addresses have been contacted inappropriately, either by strangers or sports agents. That led to this passage in the report:
"It would be irresponsible on our part if this led to something serious," he said.
The move to ban the site came from students and coaches expressing concern over safety and privacy issues. Kennedy said he hasn't seen the site.
Does this mean Kent State will delete student-athletes from campus phone directories,
which have been the way strangers and sports agents have found contact information
about them in the past?
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Image Cliches To Be Aware Of
For the past couple of weeks, this section has been focusing a great deal on search
engine discussions and when you consider the way search has changed the marketing
industry, it's been with good reason. However, yesterday I came across an entertaining
thread about stock image clichés we see littered all over the Internet.
You know the one's I'm talking about: the flirty call center female or the diverse
company employee photo. The poster indicates perhaps these types of typical stock
images should be avoided, and when you consider the story of Everywhere
Girl, this reasoning makes perfect sense. Check out what's being said and
see if you agree or not.
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Stock Photography Cliches
Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches by Forty Media is about what Not to do. And I wish it wasn't necessary to add that last bit, but it was.
You know cliche-ville. Where the office buildings are futuristics, all glass ...and not where company offices are located. Where fashion models play at being employees, staring off into the ether.
Ever wonder what customers think this looks like? Well here you go.
What you can do instead is take a page from marketing case histories -- namely Snapple.
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I made an RSS feed for our CD rates and news page. At this point the feed just
contains links to the seperate pages. I'm curious if that is how most RSS feeds
work or if the information is seperated out into a much simpler HTML Page?
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