Curse Gaming is a site that hosts and manages user interface addons for Blizzards astoundingly popular World of Warcraft game. They recently announced that they were changing the nature and type of their advertising. Previously, the site was slathered in Google Text ads offering (not suprisingly) ads for buying in-game Gold, exploits, hacks, etc. for the game itself. Blizzards Terms [...]

I was really pleased to see that Yahoo took a big step in moving the usability of the entire web forward today with their release of Yahoo Design Patterns. They are descriptions of everyday web design problems and what Yahoo! has found works in attempting to overcome them. Written in a plain, no-nonsense manner they form a strong guideline for [...]

Factory Joe has an excellent thought about rewiring the UI of the OS X font explorer from it’s functional interface (which depends on knowing what you want in advance) to an exploratory one where (where you can find what you really need). It’s a very different way of defining the problem you are trying to solve and naturally leads to [...]

Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed has an interesting take on Google’s recent delisting of BMW’s German site. Two things to consider: 1. Was this actually done by a human being? I’m positive that Google must run “human” style web bots as well as the classic “Googlebot” (whose identifiable user-agent is keyed off by cloakers). Can you blame Google for a capricous [...]