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Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
Jakob Nielsen has published his annual Top Ten Web Design Mistakes List for the year 2005:
- Legibility Problems
- Non-Standard Links
- Flash
- Content That's Not Written for the Web
- Bad Search
- Browser Incompatibility
- Cumbersome Forms
- No Contact Information or Other Company Info
- Frozen Layouts with Fixed Page Widths
- Inadequate Photo Enlargement
As opposed to Nielson's own opinions, this year's list was based around user-observations.
Google and Sun Collaboration
Tommorow at 10:30am PT, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, and Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun, will be holding a press conference to discuss new joint activities between the two companies. The conference will be held at The Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. A live webcast will also be available directly from the Sun website.
Yahoo Back Alliance To Digitize Books
Amidst the recent controversy over Google's library scanning project, Yahoo! have stepped up alongside the likes of Internet Archive, O'Reilly Media, and Adobe, to launch The Open Content Alliance, an all-round more publisher friendly solution.
The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!
The OCA will encourage the greatest possible degree of access to and reuse of collections in the archive, while respecting the content owners and contributors. Contributors to the OCA must agree to the principles set forth in the Call for Participation.
The Open Content Alliance is opt-in only for copyrighted material, unlike Google's planned book digitization project which is opt-out. This key difference will likely avoid the type of fears publishers have expressed with Google's program over content being re-distributed outside of their control. Many critics of Google's project have already become members of the new alliance.