E-Mail Marketing: Blacklisted Autoresponder Service
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"If you're not very careful, you could be stuck with an e-mail service that is blacklisted for allowing spammers to use their service. This article explains how to see if a vendor is being blacklisted as well as the advantages good ASP hosted e-mail distribution services bring with regard to deliverability. Date: May 12, 2004, 14:51 PST"

Miscellaneous: Focus on Great Content, not Content Thieves
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Don't worry about protecting your content from thieves. Instead concentrate on producing great, compelling content and marketing your site effectively. The thieves who try to take shortcuts won't be able to compete with you. Date: May 11, 2004, 13:52 PST"

E-Mail Marketing: Survey of Small Businesses Shows No Dominant Bulk E-Mailing Vendor
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Web Marketing Today survey of small- to medium-sized business owners and marketers concerning what e-mail program they used to send e-mail newsletters or promotions to customers found no single dominant vendor. Most popular programs included Constant Contact, Group Mail, Lyris, Gammadyne Mailer, AWeber, VerticalResponse iBuilder, GotMarketing Campaigner, Yahoo! Groups, 1ShoppingCart, Topica, Dada Mail, Exact Target, GoldMine, AutoResponse Plus, Mailloop, ProAutoResponder, Site Build It!, Subscribe Me, WorldCast, G-Lock EasyMail, bCentral List Builder, and MailerMailer. Date: May 7, 2004, 11:50 PST"

Site Design: Website Building Programs
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Describes various kinds of sitebuilding wizards to build and maintain a website: standard website builders, store-building programs, Ken Evoy's Site Build It!, website updaters, and content management systems. Recommends tools from Yahoo!, SiteSell, and Interactivetools.com. Date: May 5, 2004, 14:04 PST"

Ads and Affiliates: Keeping Up with Yahoo!'s Advertising Options
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Pros and cons of various kinds of advertising offered on Yahoo. Recommends free submissions, Overture ads, and Yahoo! Directory Express Submit. Only certain e-commerce businesses will profit much from Overture Site Match (paid inclusion) and Yahoo! Product Submit (for Yahoo! Shopping). Date: Apr 28, 2004, 22:07 PST"


Web Shopping Search Engine Use Jumps During Mother's Day
From: www.webpronews.com

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Citysearch Search Engine Secures Deal With Overture
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CNN And SI Now Powered By Yahoo Search
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Search Engine College Launches
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Google Groups Hit By The Redesign Update Bug
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Phone Becomes Alibi for Liars
From: www.wired.com

"A funny -- and disturbing -- trend is popping up in the United States and Europe: People are downloading phony alibis such as prerecorded traffic-jam sounds, or even joining mobile liars' clubs, to pull one over on bosses and spouses. By Elisa Batista."

A Tightwad's Guide to Ad Blockers
From: www.wired.com

"Sick of obnoxious video and audio advertisements hogging bandwidth? No worries. While one can always spring for blocking software, simply switching browsers or employing a few simple hacks can keep annoying marketing pitches at bay. By Michelle Delio."

Gamers Spurning TV, Movies
From: www.wired.com

"America's 180 million video-game players spend less time watching TV and movies to play more games. Also: Nintendo demonstrates what the second screen on its handheld is good for.... The Sims gets an urban makeover.... and more. Wired News reports from E3."

Tech Execs Lean Right
From: www.wired.com

"While the technology industry usually contributes roughly equal sums to Democrats and Republicans, the same can't be said of tech executives. In this year's presidential race, CEOs of the largest tech firms are largely backing Bush. By Joanna Glasner."

U.S. Officials Sport Fake Degrees
From: www.wired.com

"More than 400 government employees, including many high-ranking officials, received fake degrees from diploma mills, according to congressional investigators. The findings spur calls for better means to vet academic credentials. By Ryan Singel."


Your Suggestions for Better Worldwide Usability
From: webword.com

" "It sometimes seems that the Internet is targeted to US citizens, which is really annoying to people from countries who use the Web just as much as US users do. It's more than date formating and spellings of words. Someone mentioned the use of zip codes, and I realized suddenly that many forms REQUIRE a zip code or else they simply won't work! Here's your chance to teach everyone what you need and would like to see improved. Please help us learn how to make the Internet a GLOBAL Internet."

Go to the Cre8asite forum posting and share your thoughts!

Back in 2000 I put together some resources together on this topic. Usability Around the Globe: Resources. Perhaps it will be useful to you.
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Example of Extremely Tight Focus: DeafVision
From: webword.com

" DeafVision is a deaf web site hosting and deaf web design company.

"Our design team can develop a website for your business or organization that is not only professional and cutting-edge, but also effective and visually pleasing to the discriminating deaf-eye."

and...

"Deaf businesses and nonprofits cannot afford to be left in the "dark" as we have so many times in the past. DeafVision is your solution. Let us help you make your presence to the World!"

and...

"Despite the fact that DeafVision is a company run by Deaf people, a majority of our clients are not deaf and have chosen us for our outstanding services and commitment to excellence."

Very interesting. I wonder if they are making money and doing a good business.

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Five-Minute Introduction to Braille
From: webword.com

" "Braille is a system of transcribing print so it can be read by touch. Braille is now mainly used by blind people but the original idea was for soldiers to be able to read at night without putting themselves in danger by using any light. You can learn about braille by reading this page and following the links."

Learn more about braille now...

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Engagability?
From: webword.com

" I am seeing the word "engagability" more and more. Does anyone have any good idea about what it means. It usually used in conjunction with usability and accessibility."

Web Accessibility Toolbar
From: webword.com

" "It is not designed to tell the user if a page/site is accessible, it is designed to help the user to interrogate aspects (structure/code/content) of an html document that can have an affect on the accessibility of that document."

Has anyone used this? I'm tempted to load it and use it, just for giggles.

Get the toolbar now!"