On my computer, Google today has what would be a slightly new look on any other site, but is a huge change for Google. The new "Froogle" link is labelled as such, and there's a "More" in the tab bar that leads to good things. .
This was my idea! My idea! My idea! (I thought of it last month, but forgot to build it.) lets you send email to yourself or anybody else in the future -- my idea was more of a n e-time capsule, but worked the same.
. What they only mention in the second-to-last paragraph of the story: Before he resigned in January, Kelley spent his entire 21-year career at USA TODAY.
Variety.com just added Trackback to all their articles and reviews, making it the first newspaper to use trackback, to my knowledge. for Variety with a trackback link to here.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)