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October 9th, 2006- Google Buys YouTube

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., October 9, 2006 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand…
A List of Accessible 508 Compliant Content Management Systems / CMS

I’m always on the lookout for accessible open source CMSs. Here’s a list of some which are 508 compliant. TYPO3– 508 compliant by using an extension(s) I think? But one big issue before you use it. I almost decided to use it once for a client website whose target audience included mostly novice computer users…
UXMag Website Usability : ‘Open in New Window’ Feature

UX Magazine has been in its beta stage for quite a few months now. It looks sophisticated and fabulous offering a good total user experience. However, I do think that the ‘Open in New Window” checkbox located in the footer on the right is not going to be a feature that increases usability, not because…
What’s a Favicon and How To Create Your Own Favicon

That little 16×16 image in the address bar left of the URI of some websites is, in case you didn’t, called a Favicon. Creating favicons is really simple. All you have to do to have your own favicon is create a 16×16 graphic in .gif or .jpg format and change the extension to .ico and…
Defective by Design

As Microsoft developers gathered in Seattle to hear Bill Gates’s keynote speech on the future of Microsoft and the coming release of its updated operating system Vista, protesters wearing bright yellow Hazmat suits swarmed the entrance of the city’s convention center, delivering an unsettling message to the corporation: your product is defective and hazardous to…
Color Sytems: Additive and Subtractive

It is not uncommon to meet graphic designers who don’t know about additive and subtractive color systems. Those who have read about color management would know how ever. Those who don’t, I urge you to read on the topic, so you can get consistent color reproduction across displays and print devices, Below is a simple…
Thesis: Designing Stand-alone Flash websites According to Usability, Accessibility & Searchability Aspects- A Critical Analysis Leading to the Formulation of a Development Cycle

View or download my thesis (that topped the batch with a 2.1 on the Middlesex scale) in Pdf or Word format . My thesis topic was “Designing stand-alone Flash websites according to usability, accessibility and searchability aspects- A critical analysis leading to the formulation of a development cycle“. You can view my thesis if you…
W3C Kicks In With It’s Mobile Web Initiative (2005)

MWI recognizes the mobile device as a first class participant of the Web. – Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. This is what W3C Director, Tim Berners-Lee said at the launch of its Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) three days back with the aim of simplifying the browsing experience from a mobile device to that of a computer…
New Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) is Out (2004)

Since the previous public Working Draft of WCAG 2.0, published on 30 July 2004, the WCAG working group has incorporated over 200 public comments. To help address usability issues raised with the July drafts, WAI also developed “Introduction to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working Draft Documents” as a starting point for WCAG 2.0.…