Nice error message
Found just now at Widgets.com.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Link list
Sometimes I provide a link list of stuff I´ve read on the web. More often, I don´t. The reason is simply that there might be not so much value in providing those lists for the readers. It´s simply repeating content that was posted elsewhere. Sure, it´s kind of a filter, similar to the filter your newspaper does when presenting the daily printed news for you. But with online media, this is just repeating what you might have read anyway elsewhere.
So, anyway, here´s today´s list:
- Interview by Eric Enge with Matt Cutts from the Google Webspam team about robots.txt, NOINDEX and more. Interesting for understand the various options for optimizing web content inclusion in the Google index.
- Jeremiah Owyang´s Japan 2006 photo set. Exciting - reserve some time for watching over 400 photos.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Auto-extract data
I wasn´t sure if that would work. But it did, and quite good. What´s not working here and at other places where you´re supposed to be able to upload a Microsoft Word file: no support for Word 2007 docx files yet.
Certainly supporting docx doesn´t mean just adding the file type, but also - in this case - changing the import process and getting the data out of those XML files. Still Word 2007 is too important to be forgotten. With this application it´s not a problem though, because PDF works and Office 2007 let´s you create PDF files with the help of a free add-on.
It´s similar to the change in how Internet Explorer deals with embedded flash files: many companies haven´t updated their websites yet (preload process) and do not mind the change in the user interface experience. Or they don´t know about it. Either way, it´s not so good.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
OWA 2007
Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access 2007 has some really nice feature. Check out this interesting, though rather long presentation
Monday, November 07, 2005
Crash content
c|net writes about General Motors demonstrating a vehicle-to-vehicle communications system - not for flirting with the chick blonde in that sports car on the other lane, but for alerting the blonde´s car about a close encounter aka as a imminent colllision:
Just in case you don't have enough backseat drivers, your car could one day tell you when you're about to screw up.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Google's Idea Factory
Worth reading: BW interviews Google´s director of consumer web products Marissa Mayer in Managing Google's Idea Factory.
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
S5 instead of Powerpoint?
Eric Meyer has an extensive introduction into S5, the A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System, which enables you to write great looking presentation without using tools like MS Powerpoint. It may be difficult to forgo using Powerpoint.
It´s seems that with the current version it got much easier, though editing the head and footer section of the presentation still brings you in touch with some strange CSS code. (via Jens Meiert excellent pages on web design (in German, though, but some of it is just translated from english so you´ll find it elsewhere in english).
Friday, June 03, 2005
Confidential
Lately, I´ve read some discussions (in German) on confidentially disclaimers in emails. Did you realize they come in web pages too:
<html>
<!--* ******************************************************************
* Confidentiality Information:
*
* This module is the confidential and proprietary information of
* PeopleSoft, Inc.; it is not to be copied, reproduced, or
* transmitted in any form, by any means, in whole or in part,
* nor is it to be used for any purpose other than that for which
* it is expressly provided without the written permission of
* PeopleSoft, Inc.
*
* Copyright (c) 1988-2002 PeopleSoft, Inc. All Rights Reserved
* ******************************************************************
*
* SourceSafe Information:
*
* $Header:: /PT81/WEB/IClientServlet/exception.html 1 3/11/02 $
* ******************************************************************
*
********************************************************************-->
<head>
Friday, May 13, 2005
Job search
Well, finally, a job board that has RSS feeds - at least for Vienna, IL, but not for Vienna, Austria. But will that be enough to kick ass Monster.com?
I don´t understand why Monster doesn´t offer any RSS feed (for job search results). That would help a lot. Especially since Monster Technologies is a great company, has a great staff and it would be certainly quite easy for them to integrate RSS. Then again the job search market is quite strange in any case. Take this offer (by epunkt.net). The company offering this position isn´t mentioned. Why? Google finds it in a second. Or take this offer. Do you dis-cover the company? It´s a guess, though.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Habemus Papam
So we have a new pope. And, surprise, he´s from Germany.
Well, I thought, since it´s on nearly all TV channels and - with a minor delay - also on all major web portals, it´s time to catch this special moment for the future with a collection of screenshots. I was thinking about the future, when we will be looking back at those distant moments. Bigger images are available upon clicking at the images below.
OK, maybe the historian´s logic behind this post is a bit weird: Because, in the far, far distant future this weblog might not be around anymore. But then it might be stored in Google Cache - but then DerStandard, Financial Times Deutschland, The New York Times, ORF, Spiegel and Wikipedia too. :-)
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Friday, September 03, 2004
Amazon gone wild
Did you know that Amazon.com also has restaurant reviews including scans of the menus and customer opinion.
Plus: customers which viewed this menu also read (or click at at least) the 9/11 Commission Report. Probably because it goes well with the food. :-)
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Interfering with IT
The Register´s BOFH section (aka "Biting the hand that feeds IT") tells how users interfere with corporate IT. (Thanks TS)
Monday, August 23, 2004
Jobpilot mad?
Just logged into my jobpilot account to find this. Is this a programmer´s prank or is someone ill?
At first I thought someone has hacked the site.
Update 16:00: Jobpilot.at has sent an apology (due to me contacting them by eMail).
The link goes to a page that requests my acknowledgement of data transfer to a monster.com account as jobpilot and Monster Inc have merged. The page notes that the data will be stored in a database in the US according the the privacy rules of monster.com and states:
Bitte nehmen Sie zur Kenntnis, dass die Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaft darauf hingewiesen hat, dass Ihrer Auffassung nach die Gesetze der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika kein adäquates Schutzniveau für Ihre persönlichen Daten gewährleisten.The european commission advises that the laws of the US do not provide an adequate data protection for the personal data provided.
I like to add, though, that I´m a satisfied customer of jobpilot and like its services.
Friday, August 06, 2004
multiple personality disorder
Adam L. Penenberg of Wired News reports on sever disorder syndroms due to having to register over and over again at leading news sites before allowed to view content. Therefore his uses split personalities such as Jed Clampett, Mustang Sally or Freddy Fudbuster. Adam takes a look why users do this and what the media thinks about registration.
Friday, June 25, 2004
eMail mistakes
MarketingSherpa has a list of the top 10 stupid email mistakes. I´ll sum them up:
1 Not following the rules of anti-spam regulations including providing an opt-out link. 2 Not telling people about your privacy policy. 3 Removing landing pages and graphics too quickly from the server 4 Text newsletter as by products without proper clickable URL - something I´ve seen again and again in newsletters produced by web journalists. 5 Ignoring bounces. 6 One-way communication - no feedback. 7 Too much text. 8 Not caring what people really want - you´ll find out when reading the replies you get! 9 Subscribing people to new newsletters without asking. 10 Mail from affiliates - though I wouldn´t give affiliates email addresses anyway. Central handling - central control!
Sunday, June 06, 2004
Most visited
Strangely, statistics on the popularity of websites differ based on whom you ask. No, I´m not talking about Nielsen ratings, IVW or OEWA numbers, which should be fairly correct. However, lot´s of website aren´t included in these - kind of official - statistics. Adult-sites have far more visitors (or german link) that search engines, as reported by research company Hitwise. Also statistics are generally targeting geographically, mostly only the US. Global statistics can be found in the Alexa Top 500 ranking, although this is also biased since it only refers to Alexa users; however it lists many Chinese, Korean and Japanese sites too.
If that´s not enough, you can make (up) your own statistic like the Austrian labour exchange is doing:
Die Homepage des Arbeitsmarktservice ist eine der meist gelesenen Seiten überhaupt. (The homepage of the labour exchange service is one of the most read read pages at all.)
At all! :-)
Monday, May 24, 2004
Bed time stories
Generally, when you take your computer into your bed, you should check whether there´s not something wrong with your (sex) life. Peter Laforte, General Manager for the Tablet PC says that it has changed his life in bed. :-)
Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
UNIX job ad
Now that´s an unusual job ad for a UNIX specialist in Australia (via vowe.net):
Trouble with Unix is that nobody really knows what it’s all about. Oh, sure, you’ve got your poindextrose types who type in things like “bash” and “grep”, but really, what does any of that mean? Well I’ll tell you. “bash” actually stands for “Bourne Again Shell” and what it is is an interface. It’s fairly unlikely that you’ll see many people typing “bash” in on a Unix machine. It’s like, with Windows, would you type “windows”? Of course you wouldn’t. You’d type “exit” and then “format c:”.
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Mary Roach: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Very very good!Scott Berkun: The Art of Project Management
My 2nd project management book.Hannes Stein: Endlich Nichtdenker
Not a book for idiots, actually!Kara Knafelc: Tokyo
Japan. Ah. What more should I say?
