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A nice article in the last issue of Wired about Bill. I particularly like the start of the story.

It's surely weird, but it give me the feeling that the journalist is entering Starship Enterprise rather than a common neighbourhood house ;-)

Well I remember that sometime ago somebody represent Bill as a B0rg. I prefer myself to say welcome to Captain 'T' Bill Gates pad ;-)

By Jeffrey M. O'Brien

This is an interesting report from David M. Nichols and Michael B. Twidale, Department of Computer Science University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

They give a deep consideration on usability in Open Source Software.

I just like to publish this excerpt:

When you talk about usability, an obvious and long debate (still not closed) come on the old Click here link.

Do you consider this indication as an obsolete and space wasting on an already cluttered page ?

Or do you think we still need to think about first time users of Internet and hyperlinks are not so intuitive ?

For more information you can also read some thoughts on the subjects like:

UPDATE:

By Cyril:

On my blog about useless of www, coacoacoa has a point with an article from James Shaw (Cover your ASP).

I just like to write here back his comment on Google ranking, becuse it might be interested for all folks around dealing with domain names.

Indeed think twice before throwing out the www.

Tomorrow no blogging, I am going to a Microsoft Ireland conference on  how to write .Net applications for Office 2003.

A kind of break for me after few very busy months ;-)