By Mike McCready on October 18, 2009
I’ve noticed a shift in the web design world. Maybe the shift isn’t recent, maybe I’m just become aware of it. The increasing importance of involving the user in the design process. User centered design is becoming especially important in higher education. As colleges and universities begin to face tougher times due to reduced budgets, [...]
Posted in Redesign, Reviews, Web Technologies | Tagged Design, focus groups, Human-Computer Interaction, Redesign, Usability, Usability Testing, Usabilla, user testing, web design, Website
By Mike McCready on September 23, 2009
If you’ve been working on the web in the last couple of years, you may have heard the term Semantic Web or Web 3.0. You also may have no idea what this mean or hunch, but not a strong foundation. I have a previous post that talks about the future of the web [...]
Posted in Web Technologies | Tagged Communication, Knowledge Management, Knowledge representation, Metadata, RDF, relationships, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Web 3.0
By Mike McCready on May 19, 2009
I saw this video posted on Jeremiah Owyang’s blog and thought it was worth sharing. GLUE allows you to share in your web browsing experience with your friends. Jeremiah has talked about different eras of the social web and the Era of Social Colonization starts this year and GLUE helps facilitate this. As a recap, [...]
Posted in Social Media, Web Technologies
By Mike McCready on April 21, 2009
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It was announced on Monday, April 20th that Oracle has offered 7.4 billion dollars to buy Sun Microsystems. The first thing you may be wondering is ‘why would you care about Oracle’s plans to buy Sun?’
If you have a self-hosted instance of Wordpress like I do or run an open-source CMS like Joomla, [...]
Posted in Web Technologies | Tagged Business, MySQL, Open Source, Oracle, PC World, Sun Microsystems, technology
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