Coincidences are sometimes amazing. I was really impressed this week by reading a long article about Ray Ozzie, the new chief software architect in Microsoft. That was of course Bill Gates’s title before he left. I found so much of value in that article, The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie’s Vision for Connected Software. I rarely like to write a post that just points somewhere else but it would have been worth it.

Then UIE BrainSparks, one of my regular reads, had an item on Conway’s Law. This discussed a longer post by Karl Long, which covers more on Conway’s Law. Conway’s Law was devised in 1968 by Melvin Conway. It reads as follows:

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.

That’s exactly the theme that Ray Ozzie was emphasizing in his vision. Particularly as the Mobile Web takes off and we all try to figure out how the Mobile Web and the Desktop Web should interact, Ray Ozzie is raising the right concerns within Microsoft. Google doesn’t have a lock on this expanded cyberspace. Perhaps this is where Microsoft can do an end-run around Google.

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Nevertheless it’s nice to see that the old-fashioned ways are not losing out. Sometimes bigger is better.

There were probably doubters that this would happen but Boris Mordkovich, Publisher of the Search Marketing Standard magazine says that the second issue is going to the printers within a week and that it will be out in August.

This time, it will be 30% larger than its predecessor and will contain more intermediate to advanced material by popular request.

Good for SMS. It’s tough reading web pages on cell phones, so it’s great to see alternative media providing a more comfortable way of staying in touch with what’s happening on the Internet.

Tags: Dot Mobi, Search Marketing Standard

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Cre8asite Forums has created a new Forum called the Cross-browser Device Assessment Panel or CDAP for short.

If you are aware of what is happening on the Internet, then you probably are not surprised to see this. The Mozilla Firefox browser and others are beginning to cut away at Microsoft’s quasi-monopoly with its Internet Explorer browser. More devices are being used to stay in touch with the Internet. Some are still using desktops, but everywhere you turn people are also using mobile devices. When you inform Google of the web pages in your website using their Sitemap process, they even ask whether the web pages are for mobile devices or for regular desktops. How can the poor web designer make sure that the website created for their client will give a satisfactory viewing experience to most visitors?

The most practical test is to get feedback from visitors who are using different browsers and devices. This new CDAP will provide exactly that. The Cre8asite Forums have a rich diversity of experts from around the world. They use a variety of browsers and devices. So a website designer can get an assessment of how robust the website design is for his diverse audience. The Cross-browser Device Assessment Panel provides a wealth of information on the issues involved as well as informed assessments of the websites submitted. At the same time, it will sensitize web designers in general to the increasing complexity of the Internet world.

For more details, you can check out the Press Release on that: it’s called New Panel Curbs Web Babel at Cre8asite Forums.

Tag: cross-browser, mobile, desktop

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