GREAT ESSAY: “Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.”

But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete. Consider physics: Newtonian models were crude approximations of the truth (wrong at the atomic level, but still…

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We've showed how Gen Y is going to change the web. In doing so, Gen Y is also changing the world. Despite all of this, the world of Generation Y eludes a lot of the previous generations. Generation Y is absorbed in a world made possible through technology. This is a key factor that is left out of the misconceptions made about Gen Y.

For example, when entering college, peers amongst Gen Y are more than willing to go out of their way to help the incoming class of students. On my college campus, groups are set up on Facebook and Myspace to help students get to and from Walmart….

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The web is currently 2.0. Its birthday song is beginning to be sung. From semantic to simply 3.0 the harmony of voices can be seen, in parts, beginning to emerge.

SORRY!, I HAD TO!, tho i did enjoy it, but i’m SOOOO against the “WEB 2.0″. For reasons that i have’nt blogged about yet, but i actually REALLY SHOULD, and very soon!.

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A brief tutorial about writing OO-enabled programs in JavaScript, with sample code explaining several key OO concepts.

According to Wikipedia, JavaScript is:JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. It was the originating dialect of the ECMAScript standard. It is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based language…

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Broadband users under 35 are most likely to ignore wireless security, while Americans are more likely to leech WiFi than UK residents. The data comes from a new report by consulting firm Accenture.

With that caution out of the way, the results paint an interesting picture of how views on security differ based on age, gender, and national lines. Nearly 90 percent of the survey population felt that preventing identity theft was a personal…

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old Playboy from February of 1985 featuring an interview with an about-to-be-fired-from-Apple Steve Jobs. Apparently at the ripe age of 29 Steve was the worlds first Zillionaire - no small feat, given that a Zillion.

Of course, there’s always the chance that Steve may have been inflating his net worth a bit just to get chicks, as I noticed coincidentally in the issue is also an article entitled the “Art of Being Cocksure” ? step…

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Are desktop computers becoming extinct?

Technology. I’m not saying I’m a Rhodes Scholar, and I didn’t wear a helment to school either, but all of these revisions with computers and things is getting away from me. I pride myself in being able to do…

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Between the ages of 25 and 60, people's ability to use websites declines by 0.8% per year ' mostly because they spend more time per page, but also because of navigation difficulties.

Based on extensive research, we've developed special Web usability guidelines for young children, teenagers, and senior citizens. Each of these age groups have specific characteristics that designers must understand to attract young or old…

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He’s the best thing and the worst thing for Apple?

History, of course, is littered with tales of combustible geniuses. What's astounding is how well Jobs has performed atop a large public company - by its nature a collaborative enterprise. Pondering this issue, Stanford management science…

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