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Design anywhere digital culture NEWS // April 2002
Hivelogic devised
a super script to encode email
addresses and put a barrage to being spammed mercilessly by bots roaming
the internet.
Looking for witty thoughts - read his articles! Way cool rotating b&w
images. Thumbs up Dan!
I
just did a test on yahoogroups -
I cancelled my long standing account there (I was registered as far back
as 1998 - with precedent owner). Since there are 2 lists using yahoo
- I decided to open a new account... Guess what? Within 10 min of activating
the new account - SPAM was in my mailbox with a @YAHOO.COM extension.
I am absolutely furious!
I sent a complaint to yahoo and deleted the new account though I'm going
to miss the lists - getting spammed is out of the question! Enough of
that garbage!
Privacy
security complaint - let them know!
Electrifying
copyright norms and making cyberspace more like a book by Ann Bartow.
A huge work in progress concerning copyright.
U.S.
Considers Microsoft Passport as National ID.
Now this is really scary!
...“75 countries participated in Microsoft
Government Leaders Conference this week in Seattle, where Gates
said: some governments may opt to use companies such as Microsoft or
America Online as the bank that registers people for online usage.”
The news
link from Mircrosoft.
Creative
Behavior - April issue!
“Imagery has
been shown to facilitate recall in many studies... appears to play a
major role in problem-solving and creativity.”
Photoshop
7 is shipping! Check the demo - the new functionalities include
a file browser, new auto-color, the healing brush and much
more.
WORM
virus <W32.Klez.H@mm> alert!
Usually comes with 2 attachments. On the page, will find
the procedure to download a program to scan/restore your computer. Make
sure you read and DO exactly as recommended.
Where
all the Work's Hiding by Martin Burns
Get an interesting view of what the New Economy is about.
Yahoo
sent a newsletter this am stating that: “...we have created a new
Marketing Preferences page within the Account Information area. We have reset your
marketing preferences and, unless you decide to change these preferences,
you may begin receiving marketing messages from Yahoo!”
Send feedback to
Yahoo.
Read
about two new security issues related to M$ products today. MS Office
on mac and SQL Server.
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via Sabin Densmore
Favelets brought
to you by Tantek
Çelik
An
interesting new concept by Wired editor at large Kevin
Kelly (who's been one of my fav futurist thinker and writer for a
long time) and Well founder Stewart
Brand: The Long Bets Foundation.
Read the article.
Inspired
insights by Chris Esterline.
“I've been lobbying to hire programmers who'd rather code than
suggest they have a notion of design. Let the designers design and let
the coders build.
Steve Jobs had a vision -- it was through such vision that his engineers
built what is now Apple. Where would personal computers be had Steve
listened to the nay-saying engineers of the day?
Remove the art from the Louvre. What's left is a hauntingly large expanse,
bare, lonely and without meaning. If I believe anything: it is the work
of the artist that gives all of this (life, the web, etc) meaning.
What my mind sees is often different that what the tools allow me to
build -- why not create and then ask the tools to evolve to meet my design.
What comprises the member group who dictates standards...
Not who, but specifically what type of person develops standards. Why
do those who organize logical structures end up dictating boundaries
to those who generally have trouble with limits in the first place?”
IBM,
Microsoft plot Net takeover by David Berlind
“IBM and Microsoft have been quietly busy behind the scenes for
the last two years building a toll booth that could position the two
companies to collect royalties on most if not all Internet traffic.
...According to documents on the W3C's
Web site, IBM and Microsoft not only own intellectual property within
specific Web services protocols, but also have no intentions of relinquishing
their IP rights to those protocols should they become standards.
...The RAND framework
is widely acknowledged as the one that keeps a vendor's options open
in terms of being able to charge content developers and Internet users
a royalty for usage of relevant intellectual property.”
In
IE6 running on XP/Win2000 it seems there is a back
button security loop!?!?!
Tx
to everyone sending in their comments + suggestions on the Fee for content
survey results. Keep them coming - these will be sorted and a *report*
will be posted in about a month.
The compilation of the *Pay for content?* mini-survey is competed. Get
the results + insights here.
There are a few open end questions at the bottom of that page. If you
have constructive comments or suggestions - I am interested in reading
them.
Together we can build What the Web Will be!
Avocadolite 
new
interface. Ari and Thalia are simply amazing designers! Luv their work!
No
more interviews? Find out why from Len Stein public/media relation
head.
Need
an interesting view of what Branding is about? Branding
in the Survival of the Fastest Era by Kyla Lange Hart.
For
people who make websites:
Fixing Your Site
With the Right DOCTYPE by Jeffrey Zeldman
Black
Hammer, NYC is looking for a full-time Office Manager. To apply,
please email resumes along with salary requirements to Karen Tercho
- jobs @ blackhammer.com - please, no phone calls and definitely no
recruiters.
Cynthia
Bauzon new
site layout
An
idea a day? The ideas published are free of copyright*.
Wow this is an interesting concept and there are some
really interesting ideas indeed.
Think
before you talk? Web talk lands some in hot water - about free speech.
+
[ t w i c e 2 ] + version 3 looks great!
Marc
Andreessen (x-founder of Netscape) says:
“If a computer can see it, display it and play it
-- it can copy it.”
Another
bout of paranoia towards M$? check this out! Will we ever have the suite
of programs we need to design and manage our profession on an open standard
OS?
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via Darren Yates.
A
strong company and presence: Blast Radius is still going further.
Anti-Trustworthy
computing. Would you trust your life to Microsoft?
Have
you heard of stereotypography?
I think it's one of the smartest concept for news feed for our community.
Now in a brand new flava! Go!
New
evil! Pop-up downloads! Gosh will spam ever end?
The
Mouse that ate the public domain by Chris Sprigman
A must read article on the future of copyright law.
FWA
Soty? A highly talented flash designers jury will review a bunch
of highly talented flash designers. That's why you need to visit the
link.
Winners to be announced in Jan 2003.
I've
discovered a wealth of new sites - check the new posted updates. I am
completely amazed by the talent of designers the world around.
Summer
in the City. Smart Cabrio cool little
cars.
Tree-Axis has
4 new short flash experiments.
c.
v. d. l. n. d. d. p. . . . . short for natural digital!
uh-uh
what's up? Macromedia pushing to have developers create entire pages
in flash?
What
about open standards?
We
shall never forget...
LXFX.de check
version 2.0.
Following
last week post on Yahoo spamming strategies, in this article concerning
Double-Click lawsuit - you will see that Yahoo new opt-out policy hasn't
gone unnoticed!
Send feedback to
Yahoo and file complaints with TrustE.
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via Erwan Deverre and Josh Tackitts
I've
updated all directories graphics. Enjoy!
Creative
Behavior - March issue! With a new article I wrote:
Online,
the brand is YOU by Carole Guevin
Are
computer sales to the public banned in Cuba? Read the article.
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trueistrue evolved!
Now
this is a fab idea!
A
cool new site for branding GTA Technologies n'machina makers of custom
made *dream machines* (workstations + servers). Shopping for a new machine?
Get a quote!
If
you are a member of the Babble or WDF discussion lists - amongst others
and are registered at Yahoo - pls verify your account info. THEY had
the guts to default every account to *YES* for marketing info and even
*email or telephone* contact in ref with this.
This is disgusting - appalling that Yahoo spams it's users
after raking millions in their treasure chest. Users unite - voice this
around you!
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