Angie McKaig - E-Business Consultant and Entrepreneur
great RSS tutorial, amazon algorithms2003.02.10
RSS Tutorial for Content Publishers and Webmasters: “RSS is an XML-based format that allows the syndication of lists of hyperlinks, along with other information, or metadata, that helps viewers decide whether they want to follow the link.” Excellent overview.
Helvetica vs. Arial quiz: “Once there was a typeface called Helvetica. Later came a software company called Microsoft. They "borrowed" Helvetica for their operating system and called it Arial. This inferior typeface is now on millions of desktops all over the world. Can you tell the difference between the original and the rip-off in these ten examples?”
Curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax. Cool.
Elegant thinking from Boxes and Arrows, and not without its controversy in the hard-core user experience world in the form of The New R&D: Relevant and Desirable. Functional design is important, sure, but meeting and exceeding marketing initiatives and being responsive to business needs simply opens the doors for innovation and ensures that we're able to do more than have the most optimized web site for our users.
More from the company that does things smart: Amazon.com Recommendations—Item-to-Item Collaborative Filtering. The algorithms in here pretty much flew over my head (math and I are generally like oil and water) but there's some good strategic thinking and process also included in the article. If nothing else, finding stuff like this and passing it on to people at work means that tech guys and biz analysts alike continue to think I'm brilliant. Which I am, of course [grin]. (via kottke)
