There’s been a bit of press lately about Oracle squashing the BEA AquaLogic product line, and some people have gone as far as assuming that this means that BEA’s AquaLogic Interaction (previously Plumtree Foundation and Plumtree Corporate Portal) is going away as well.  The good news for AquaLogic Interaction customers is: Oracle is not going [...]

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Any web application that is intuitive, simple and elegant will always win out over competitors that offer more features but poor usability and excessively complex user interfaces.  Function, utility and usability can be easily obscured by too many dark gradients, rounded corners, excessive buttons/icons, and unnecessary text.  It’s important to remember that humans experience the [...]

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DISCLAIMER: this is absolutely, most definitely not a scientific study, and nobody in their right might should use this information for anything other than entertainment purposes.
There, now that the disclaimer is out of the way, let’s get right to it.  Who do you think is more evil: Google or Microsoft?
Since evil is technically subjective, and [...]

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Whether you’re starting a new partner extranet, revising your support site, or launching a new collaborative intranet, there are a number of things that can completely sink your project, and lead to all kinds of customer complaints, wasted effort, or worse.
Here’s a quick round-up of 5 things that can kill a web project, and how [...]

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Okay, I’ll admit it at the risk of sounding uncool: I used to really like Internet Explorer.  In order to set the stage, I’d really have to go back to around 1998.  Back then, I was working in IT as a systems administrator, mostly managing servers and client machines.  We always installed Netscape Navigator.  At [...]

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There could be any number of reasons you’re looking to build a completely unusable web application: you hate your employer, you enjoy frustrating people, or maybe you just want to make your mark on the world. The bottom line is: you want to provide basic functionality with your application, but do it in [...]

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There’s a common but frequently overlooked aspect to much of the current web technology under the branding “web 2.0″: transparency. Everyday interactions that used to be opaque are now increasingly visible to everyone, from everything to how you’re feeling about the weather, to what music you’re listening to, and more. Bees have been [...]

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