The bad news is that, if you were planning to attend UI10, the conference hotel has run out of sleeping rooms at our discounted rate. (You can still get rooms at their regular rate, but that can be a bit pricey.)
The good news is that we’ve secured more rooms at the Residence Inn Boston Cambridge [...]

The 10th Anniversary of the User Interface Conference is approaching fast. I can’t tell you how excited we are about this year’s event. Tthe attendee list is quite striking, with folks coming from as far away as Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, and Southern New Jersey (almost as far as Delaware!).
We’ve spent this week going [...]

In case you missed it, Josh and Richard McManus have another installment of their Web 2.0 column out on Digital Web:

Let’s take a closer look. Consider the following text:
Web 2.0 Design: Bootstrapping the Social Web
By Richard MacManus & Joshua Porter
Humans can instantly recognize this as a title and authors of a work, in this case [...]

John Fontana, writer for Network World, got it right when he interviewed Josh for his article, Battle Lines Drawn Again Between Browsers:
“I would say going forward that AJAX is going to have a ton of focus and support behind it,” says Joshua Porter, research consultant and director of Web development for research firm User Interface [...]

On how a reader of UIE changed our home page singlehandedly by pointing out that “different than” is not as preferable as “different from”.

We are excited!
Josh & I heard today DUX 2005 has accepted our paper: The Goldilocks Content Framework: Identifying Just-Right Information
Here’s the abstract from the paper:
Content is an essential part of any successful web site. However, little work has been done to help designers understand how much content they need or what that content should say.
Using [...]

We’ve had an overwhelming response to our first Brain Sparks Live! evening, which will be happening this Wednesday, here in Boston at the Marriott Long Wharf, in the heart of the city. It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, with great food, drinks, and some interesting discussion — all for less [...]

Apparently, my thoughts on operating system strategy are worth repeating.
Go figure…

At least, according to the UPA.
(Maybe that’s why they haven’t accepted any of my submissions for the conference in years.)

I’m going to be in the DC area on 8/23. As is common when I travel, I make some time to go visit companies and other organizations to talk about their activities and challenges.
Right now, my day is fair open, so if you’d like me to come by and visit, please pop me a [...]