links for 2006-01-18 By Nic Price on 19 January 2006 — 1 min read Intranet Benchmarking Forum (tags: ibf intranets benchmarking intranet) Google Touts Bigger Mini If they can do 500,000 documents for circa $12000 they’d be laughing and so would we (tags: intranets search enterprisesearch google googlemini intranet) Search for your family name to see how it’s distributed throughout the UK “A recent research project based at University... More
LinkedOut By Nic Price on 18 January 2006 — 1 min read Recently I’ve had quite a few invitations to join LinkedIn. So I joined and checked it out and there’s something about it makes me feel a little uneasy. I think it has to do with my instant aversion to the idea of actively “networking” as a business activity – it just brings the cynic out... More
Your site may never get a second chance to make a first impression By Nic Price on 16 January 2006 — 1 min read It’s an aura thing. Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, a study shows. Researchers [from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada] found that the brain makes decisions in just a twentieth of a second of viewing a webpage. They were surprised as they believed... More
Thigh Tech By Nic Price on 16 January 2006 — 1 min read Just wondering… Was this intentional? Does it bring in more business than if they’d placed their logo somewhere else? More
Old Git By Nic Price on 16 January 2006 — 1 min read When a man gits old he jist likes to sit without botherment. From a book on photography from 1943. More
Web-based RSS aggregators for intranets By Nic Price on 13 January 2006 — 1 min read Just wondering… does anyone anywhere know of a webserver-based RSS aggregator that will run on an intranet? Commercial, open-source, it doesn’t matter at the moment, I’m just interested to know what’s available. It would help people share both internal and external feeds (subscription lists). I’ve searched high and low but so far to no avail.... More
links for 2006-01-11 By Nic Price on 12 January 2006 — 1 min read Shaping Things – The MIT Press Via blackbeltjones/work (tags: tobuy design industrialdesign book mit) More
For the record By Nic Price on 7 January 2006 — 1 min read A search for a definition of the currently much- (some say over-) used word mashup takes you to this wikipedia disambiguation page (i.e. it has more than one meaning) which then leads to the following: Mashup (music) redirects you to this definition: Bastard pop is a musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of... More
links for 2006-01-02 By Nic Price on 3 January 2006 — 1 min read Intranet Trends to Watch for in 2006 – Weigh In – weighin – CIO No surprises, but a useful summary of what’s going on (tags: intranets trends) More