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Jakob Nielsen, the father of the science of web usability, has just released his second review of intranet portals and found that products and usage are still lagging behind what we know about them. Learn, then do, would be a good guiding principle, it appears.

Ruby on Rails sounds like a promising web development framework, though I know nothing more than the

When I got my first invitation to use Plaxo from a relative of mine, I was suspicious. Any company that was offering to help me manage all my contact (and calendar) information at no charge HAD to be up to something no good. Well, I've been using it for about 6 months now and I am absolutely sold!!! Basically you install a Plaxo program on your computer that copies your contact data up to your own private space on the Plaxo server somewhere in the sky, okay I mean Internet. The first benefit is that you just created an off-site backup copy of your contact data!

The relative irrelevance of the operating system and the emergence of rich web-based interfaces using technologies such as AJAXi cause me to conclude that this article predicting the emergence of Google over and above Microsoft is not just blowing smoke. Desktops won't exactly go away tomorrow, but WHICH desktop, laptop, or other device you use will matter less and less. Good news for Linux, bad news for Microsoft, to name an obvious example.

A great place to find useful sites is the PC Magazine 2005 Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without. And don't miss their Top 100 Classic Sites.

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