Phishing has been around for a long time (by internet standards), but a new batch of phishing attempts on Facebook has been seeming to spread like wildfire. Facebook is attempting to prevent some phishing scams, but many URLs, often with spaces in the middle, sneak through.
You can recognize these attempts because they often appear as [...]
Microformats and RDFa provide a way to interweave semantic markup within a web document so that structured information can be more easily extracted. Both Microformats and RDFa follow the hierarchical model of HTML: structured data to be extracted may exist spread across several layers of the DOM
hierarchy. A pseudocode example of this is below, where we see that [...]
User-centered design has long championed the use of personas as a concrete way to conceptualize the amorphous concept of the ‘user’. Personas force all the designers to focus on particular well-formed individuals rather than some notion of The User that they silently disagree on [1].
This year at CHI, John Zimmerman at CMU presented a paper [...]
I had been meaning for a few weeks to read an alt.chi paper published in the CHI 09 proceedings called ‘Dying, Death, and Mortality: Towards Thanatosensitivity in HCI.’ Written by Michael Massimi and Andrea Charise at the U of Toronto, the title had caught my eye and then a bit of buzz surrounding it really [...]