November 2009 Archives

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Today I have seen this interesting post from TechCrunch about Google with the title Achtung! Google Analytics is illegal, say German Government officials. The article summarises what the German news portal "Die Zeit Online" (online version of the famous newspaper "Die Zeit") has written in its article.

Of course did I read the original article on "Die Zeit Online" with the title Datenschützer wollen Einsatz von Google verhindern (in good old English: Privacy advocates want to prohibit Google Analytics).

Well this is an old discussion in good old Germany, which is overcautious regarding the data privacy regulation. I would say (and this a friend of mine has confirmed recently) that it is the country with the hardest regulations concerning data privacy in the web (e.g. for online shops, forums, blogs and whatever else there is on the web). So far this article was not surprising.

What was surprising indeed, was the fact, that the original article from "Die Zeit Online" was not accurate and really bad researched.

The fact, that Google is pushing its new Chrome OS into the market respectively it is only beginning to push it, is reason enough to think about the current and future situation of "traditional" operating systems.

TechCrunch has just published a comment from MG Siedler where he is talking about the squeezing of Microsoft

Basically this supports my thesis put in the earlier post about Windows 7

So we'll be excited about what the future (or Google) will bring us.

Today I have watched some TV before going to the office. And there has been an interesting report about Steampunk in the German IT-Broadcast "Neues" (Click here for the homepage of Neues)

I was really fascinated by the look of the machines from Rich Nagy and had to write a post immediately.

I am happy to hear from other artists in the IT-Area. Just drop a comment here.

Just discovered that there is another resource for ideas here at Brass Googles from the UK.

Well, this is an old topic: web design is at least a topic since there are Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) or even earlier. Nevertheless do I want to present you some hints and tips from my point of view, what a good design for a business site is. This idea has evolved in my current background, as I have recently changed the company and my employer is also thinking about a relaunch/modernisation of his homepage. So this is the reason I have chosen such an outdated (or should I say evergreen) topic.

The idea behind this is to have at the end a series of blog posts, which cover different sites as they come into my mind and to evaluate the positive and the negative sides of a design.

I hope this will be an interesting series for my readers to follow me and that we might have some kind of discussion.
As a starter, I want to give a short introduction into the normal "process" of the creation or the relaunch of a business web site.