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 [Poductivity.blogspot.com] poductivity: Skype gets the importance of the UI - in their app., on the site, in supporting more OS's than any other similar utility, in account management and intuitive FAQ's and Forums - all within a click or 2 of each other - their UI and incredible knack for usability is yet another reason (additive to this one and this one) that the eBay deal is probably risk-free. And hell knows, eBay could use some free usability consulting - I sometimes think they took the garage sale metaphor too far.

 [Telepocalypse.net] Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: July 2005 Archives: When you buy a certain networked game, you just tick a box saying “I understand that this game will be given access to my address book, and may access the network incurring packet charges.” The appropriate permissions are then tagged on, and you are never asked again on the handset.

 [Metatalk.metafilter.com] Comments on 9414 | MetaTalk: Yup thanks for posting that, Matt. I was just passing through with my morning cuppa when I saw the interview, and was too dumbfounded to look for a tape.

[E2e.sg] eyetoeye :: neogenesis :: blog: City Slinkers - "The coyote, that cunning canine of wide-open spaces, has come to the nation's capital. Blog Flux MapStats: Stats and Counter for eyetoeye.

[Gonze.com] The weblog of Lucas Gonze -- archives: There was quite a lot of strangeness in the process of getting to thisresult, because the goal was to enable podcast clients to grab RSSfeeds without having to compete with normal RSS clients, and yet weended up with the same MIME type for podcast feeds as for normal RSS2feeds. Using the same type means that clients will have to haveswitcher software which routes feeds to the correct client, giventhat two different kinds of client need access to the same documents.That is, podcatchers and RSS readers are different kinds of softwarewhich happen to use the exact same data format, so the data formatcan't be used to figure out which kind of software to launch when youdownload a file.

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