Archive | October, 2005

14 October 2005 ~ Comments Off

Keyboard navigation in Bloglines

Exactly a week ago I was having a conversation with Peter Van Dijck about web-based RSS readers. The Google reader beta had just been unveiled, and I said something along the lines of “if it has keyboard-based navigation, I’m switching from Bloglines”. Lo and behold, less than a week later Bloglines upgrades to keyboard-based navigation. I’m loving it!

Bloglines and Gmail have become permanent fixtures in my work environment; they are constantly open. I don’t think of them as web based applications at all—I only ever notice them when I’m not online and can’t access them.

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13 October 2005 ~ Comments Off

links for 2005-10-13

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06 October 2005 ~ Comments Off

Small talk

This morning, in an electronics store in Panama’s international airport:

Me: Do you have the Game Boy Micro?

Salesperson: No, but we have the iPod nano.

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05 October 2005 ~ Comments Off

links for 2005-10-05

  • Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.

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03 October 2005 ~ Comments Off

Upcoming presentations – Fall 2005

I will be presenting on IA and web-related topics at the following venues over the next week:

Hope to see you there!

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