Interesting idea: Café testing

The basic idea behind café testing is to situate yourself at a café, put up a sign to attract participants, and test the people that come to you. Because cafes appeal to a wide variety of individuals, and people at a café often have time to spare, café testing can be a great way to perform a quick litmus test in the marketplace.

Sounds like work for usability testers with a taste for beer ;-)

[Via Brukaropplevingar.com]

Seems like Userfriendly has the answer

BTW: Still giving out invitations, but only to people that I have "met" in one form or another. (Sorry everyone else, you will have to wait for the beta period to end, or get your invitation elsewhere).

Seems like all the bloggers I know have invitations to give away. Well, they are not alone. Although it took a while before I got my first invite, I am now reciving a lot of them from Google Mail.

Because I am such a lazy bloke (all programmers are lazy, I am told), I'll just copy/paste the text from Anders regarding the invites I have to give out.

Like many others, I have a couple of invites to Gmail available. I initially had 3, gave them out and now I have some more, so it doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon. If I know you, if we've met, if've we've chatted online or have read eachothers blogs and you still don't have a Gmail adress, drop me an email and I'll send you an invite.
Friends & acquaintances only; sorry, random strangers.

Yes I know, you are wondering if I have lost it. To be honest when I read all the fuzz about it I thought "TV? That has been around for ages, how can that be new and exiting and about to explode?"

Well, its really quite simple. There is a new revolution about to happen. Technologies are coming together to make it a lot easier for anyone who wants to produce and distribute TV-content.

BuzzMachine has the details

[Via Doc Searls]

Interesting research of how blogs are used by teenagers.

BBC News: Teenagers reach out via weblogs

Teenage boys and girls are using blogs, easily publishable online diaries, in many more similar ways than has been predicted, according to a study. Previous studies on gender and the net have suggested girls communicate better, and more often, than boys.

But US researcher David Huffaker's study of 70 blogs contradicts this.

He found the gender split in blog use was 50-50. But worryingly, teens tended to reveal more personal details on blogs than in chatrooms and forums.

[Via: digme]

This was a nice discovery today. A Flash gallery application, the SimpleViewer is free (as in beer (not sure about the license)). Together with the free (as in open source) .redSPLASH PHP administration interface you can run multiple galleries and administrate them easily.

[Via My Canon 10D and me]

One of my many domains have been used by spammers for a while. Unfortunately its not much I can do about it, without spending a week to try to track down the perpetrators. It has resulted in numerous bounces from addresses that doesn't work, vacation messages etc.

While most spammers don't use real e-mail addresses anymore, but instead resort to "steal" other peoples domains to use as sender addresses, I would not recommend doing what this girl did today. It could possibly confirm your e-mail address to the spammers. And the end result would be more spam as you move to the "validated to work spammers a-list".

I have to admit I think it was a rather amusing e-mail, and I have a feeling she is getting more than her share of spam mail.

From: patty@example.com
Subject: YOU ARE PROBABLY A MORON.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 20:56:38 -0400
To: me@example.com

It's likely that your email has reached me in error because you are simply not bright enough to type an email address properly. Kindly double-check the address of the person to whom you were trying to send your email now, and regret your shortcomings.

The technological revolution has left you in the dust. I mean, how hard is it, really, to type an email address in the "To" field of your gui email client? You are daft. You should probably just commit seppuku and do the rest of the world a favor.

If you are emailing the tourism agency for Dekalb, Alabama, you should send an email to pattyt, not patty.

Otherwise, you are either a simpering fool or a spammer, and in either case there are few things I would enjoy more than watching you catch on fire and run around screaming. You are a waste of carbon, and I don't like you.

Have a pleasant day.