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Happy Thanksgiving

The folks here at UIE hope everyone is having a Happy Thanksgiving.

Front page: IT Enquirer

Jared finds himself on the front page of the IT Enquirer.

Final Stretch until UI10

In just less than 10 days, we’ll start welcoming our guests to the User Interface 10 Conference. Attendees are coming from all over the world. We have folks arriving from Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Israel, China, Finland, Venezuela, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Belgium, France, and New Jersey. People are coming from all different [...]

Still looking for UI10 Volunteers

User Interface 10 is only three weeks away and we’re just now putting the final touches on the program. We’ll have more than 350 attendees from all over the world. There are folks coming from Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Would you like to join us? I’m still currently looking for volunteers who are [...]

Speaking (As We Speak)

Last night, Josh spoke at the Macromedia Boston Users Group meeting quite successfully. As this post is appearing, I’m speaking at the Nexus Energy Software Marketing Users Group meeting. Tomorrow I’m speaking at CSAIL HCI seminar at MIT. Next week, I’ll be in Philadelphia, speaking at The Vanguard Group and the week after I’m speaking [...]

Room At The Inn

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 [...]

UI10 Is Getting Close

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 [...]

Writing Semantic Markup

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 [...]

Network World Got It Right

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 [...]

Web Site Grammar

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