Live Earth concert(s)
Live Earth is a music event that begins July 7 to raise awareness about global warming with 24 hours of music across 7 continents, and performances by more than 150 of the world’s top musicians…
It starts 6 p.m. PT/9 p.m. ET, and wil be streamed
The Sundance Channel, NBC, CNBC, and BRAVO will also broadcast some of the shows.
world wide wait
Standard guidelines for ideal Web response times (Nielsen 1999, page 42):
0.1 second (one tenth of a second).
Ideal response time. The user doesn’t sense any interruption.
1 second. Highest acceptable response time.
Download times above 1 second interrupt the user experience.
10 seconds. Unacceptable response time.
The user experience is interrupted and the user is likely to leave the site or system.
These numbers are useful for planning server capacity.
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one-second response times = five kilobytes at 56 Kbps
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Speedy downloads, speedy connections:
Minimize HTML, the number and size of graphics, and multimedia
Legibility
Use high contrast colors for optimum legibility (black text on white background best)
page width:
600 pixels and resizable [although 580 works best on Macs – ed.]
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Minimize the number of steps needed to accomplish tasks
Load in under 20 to 30 seconds
women in tech
…A report released May 14…tech workplaces may not be the most favorable environments for women to work in.
The vast majority of women working in the field of technology enjoy their jobs, finds the “Women in Technology 2007” report published by WITI (Women in Technology International), a trade association, and Compel, a management consulting and research firm. Of the survey’s nearly 2,000 female respondents, 75 percent said that they would encourage other women to pursue similar interests.
…Patricia Schaefer, (president of Compel and) co-author of the report, told eWEEK.
“What was very intriguing was that such a large percentage of women said that they didn’t find their organizational climates to be very inviting to women. They’re saying that they don’t feel that their voices are heard and it causes them to question whether this is an environment that they wish to stay in,” said Shaefer.