Google has been showing a new layout to its search engine to a small sample of its Internet users. Read the rest by the incomparable Aaron Schwartz
“May the Schwartz be wit you!”
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Just stumbled upon this site where design/webcode genius Joshua Davis creates Edward Tufte’s Google commissioned for an upcoming Wired magazine. Joshua Davis, Tufte, Google, Wired all in one link?! That definitely deserves a link from me. Can’t wait to see it in print.

So it’s a long weekend and it’s time to procrastinate by checking out some cool stuff on the web. group94 has way cool content management tools, which they show off in the “beyind the scenes” section of their site. Groups should be this easy.

I know I get a lot of spam, but that’s after tremendous amounts of filtering is already being done by major mail servers around the world. Hearing about the volume of spam traffic through mailservers and sheer numbers of messages that are rejected makes you realize that there’s a major infrastructural problem with the current […]

Laszlo’s doing some cool stuff with Rich Internet Applications (buzzword for database driven Flash). They have a bunch of demos on their site, and Howard Dean’s website uses their calendar which is neat if a little slow.
To me, the potential of RIAs is in filtering information without filling out html forms and reloading pages. […]

Not sure where to post this, we don’t have a bug submission system (or do we and I just haven’t been paying attention?). The new blog format is skewed when viewed with a Gecko browser. Check this screenshot for details.
And baaaaack to work. Damn Sundays.

This is something Stocker set up a while back for us. I’m not sure it’s fully updated, but it is pretty darn comprehensive. Would the web mavens in the crowd care to point out interesting facts about the data?
Events at Stanford server logs.

Check out VentureBlog: Enterprise Social Software Is Not An Oxymoron, explaining how blogs, linked-in, and friendster type systems have promise in the enterprise (read: university) setting.

Google Labs now allows you to search by location. What exactly is this good for? I can imagine it being really sweet for events, eventually. Search by Location

From an article by Matt Haughey comes a link to a Movable Type plugin to add RSS feeds to a MT website. This could be useful to add a group’s calendar from eventsATstanford to their site on groupsATstanford…
In other news upcoming.org is still growing–can we automatically harvest their events? I’m thinking like Amazon does with […]