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An unnofficial survey of how well high-profile tech sites meet Web standards by forevergeek results in somewhat surprising results. Of the 20+ sites currently listed, Microsoft has two (microsoft.com and msn.com) of the four that were error free. On the other end of the spectrum, C|Net defies logic with 1400+ errors while Slashdot and Yahoo! end up in the 200’s. Most of the other sites fall somewhere between one to twenty errors which isn’t too bad if you ask me. But if Microsoft is going to suddenly embrace the zero error lifestyle, I think everybody else needs to pick it up a couple notches.
Wondering how well your site adheres to the standards set up by the W3C? Use the W3C validator and find out.
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It appears that users of instant messaging technology really do use it for work. A study released last week by AOL indicated that 58 percent of those who access IM in the workplace use it to communicate with colleagues; 49 percent use it to get answers to make business decisions; and 28 percent use it stay in touch with clients and customers.
The study’s results are surprising, but the timing isn’t. Google (which owns 5 percent of AOL) has begun working with AOL to allow their respective IM programs to communicate with each other, a move that will simplify communication for users. Not at the table were MSN and Yahoo, which are working to integrate their own IM applications.
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Computers and the Internet have improved the speed and efficiency of so many tasks – buying groceries, applying for a job, writing letters and sharing information; but recent controversies related to electronic voting in Florida and North Carolina indicate that maybe efficiency isn’t always the best route. Indeed, the use of technology to count ballots puts the political process into a “black box,” which may raise significant questions about the integrity and accuracy of what is happening.
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37signals have announced an upcoming project named Sunrise that will be a “CRM-ish tool for small businesses” on it’s Signal vs Noise blog. Previous projects include Backpack and Basecamp which we’ve spewed love for in the past. Sunrise, I suspect, may be the one that helps tip them from darlings of the blogosphere to an even wider audience. A simple CRM is something that a lot of business people could really use.
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It seems that every day another dozen web2.0 sites arrive in alpha or beta form, Google on it’s own releases one or two ‘beta’ products a month. So how can a person interested in this frenzy of releases keep up with the ten different gift list applications that have been released in the past two weeks without spending all their time surfing the Web? Easy, you just find a few other people that have more time than you do and piggyback on them.
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