This Interaction Design Guide presents guidelines for SAPs Internet Application Components covering interaction design, screen layout and text issues.
SAP Internet Application Components has a general principle of making the application simpler and easier to use. Also, its designed methodology is deriving everyone to interface from the result of a user and task analysis.
January 30 2008 | Information | No Comments »
An electronic mailing list works the same as their traditional versions. The only difference is that it’s faster and more convenient to do it online than snail mail. With the mailing list, you basically have a list of e-mail addresses of people who subscribe to a mailing distribution about a particular topic such as job hunting, a favorite band, a hobby, etc. These e-mail addresses are put under one e-mail address so that if you need to send an e-mail (regarding an announcement, replies, questions etc.) all you have to do is type that one particular e-mail address. Of course, since this is a community of sorts, there are rules that subscribers need to follow and there is also an administrator who keeps tabs on the posts.
January 25 2008 | Community and Definition | No Comments »
A vlog is a term coined from two words � �video� and �blog.� As its name suggests, it is a blog that contains mostly video content, which more often than not are distributed through RSS feeds which is called a vodcast or vidcast. If there is such a thing as a blogosphere, then the small area of it that focuses much on vlogs is often referred to as the vlogosphere.
The usual steps in making a vlog are the following:
Make a video (of course the content can be entirely up to you) and save it in your computer as a file. The most common software used for this is the Windows Movie Maker for Windows and QuickTime or iMovie for Apple systems.
Using software such as Movie Maker, iMovie, Avid Free DV and Final Cut Pro, compress the video so that it won�t take much space.
You can now set up your blog,that is if you don�t have one yet. There are many free blog hosts available nowadays so you can have your pick.
Next, publish your actual video online. Like blogs, there are many free hosting sites available. The Internet Archive, BlipTV, OurMedia, and YouTube are some I can name.
Create your blog entry. Make a screen capture from your video to display in your blog so that users can click on the image to be directed to the video itself. Add the image and link to your video.
Don�t forget to get an RSS feed with enclosures and publish your blog at Feedburner or a similar site. This will help getting your video across many users of the Internet.
January 20 2008 | Definition | No Comments »
If you have an internet presence, whether it be a wiki, blog, site, etc., then you better log on to the
Google Webmaster Tool site and be informed on how it will help expose your site to your target audience. Why is it important? It makes your site more search-engine friendly (actually more Google-friendly).
Get Google’s view of your site and diagnose problems See how Google crawls and indexes your site and learn about specific problems we’re having accessing it.
Discover your link and query traffic View, classify, and download comprehensive data about internal and external links to your site with new link reporting tools. Find out which Google search queries drive traffic to your site, and see exactly how users arrive there.
Share information about your site Tell us about your pages with Sitemaps: which ones are the most important to you and how often they change. You can also let us know how you would like the URLs we index to appear.
If you haven’t been using this free feature, it’s time to head on over there.
January 17 2008 | Information | No Comments »
BitTorrent is an content distribution protocol that allows distribution through the internet of software and peer-to-peer sharing of large files like shows and movies. It does this by enabling users to serve as network redistribution points. The holder of the content sends it to one user who sends it to other users and they share the pieces of the download until everyone completes it. Because of this, the original server can serve many requests without using immense bandwidth. This is very efficient because it saves time; a full-length movie can arrive within a few hours and sound files within minutes.
January 17 2008 | Application | No Comments »
We’ve covered SPAM here, a few posts back. Now we’re going to talk about the (anti) spam cocktail! It’s actually the use of many varying programs and technologies. By combining these components, it is then easier to identify and eliminate spam as an individual anti-spam program may be able to skip a certain spam. But with combine effort, it becomes more effective. It’s also the e-mail administrator who determine and create rules on how messages are to be handled.
January 15 2008 | Definition | No Comments »
Discussion boards, which can be called by many other names (good for it) such as discussion discussion forums, discussion groups, online forums, and message boards (whew), refers to online bulletin boards. It’s like a virtual cork board that millions of users (often sharing the same interests) can post announcements and opinions and get replies both negative and positive. One doesn’t have to post and just “lurk” or read the posts (unless stated otherwise in the forum rules) Or you can just read the board. Anyone can make a discussion board by availing of online forum services. There are various forum software available depending on the programming language used.
January 10 2008 | Community and Definition | No Comments »
Ahh! bounce e-mails. Still confused about that one? No problem, it’s really something that doesn’t hold interest until you get a message in your inbox saying a certain e-mail is “undeliverable” and has therefore “bounced.”
Simply put, bounce e-mail is electronic mail that gets returned to the sender because it cannot be delivered for one reason or another. It’s like a check that can’t be cashed in.
Hard bounce e-mail is an e-mail that is cannot be delivered permanently. This can be because the address is invalid. Soft bounce on the other hand happens when the recipient’s inbox is full and has no capacity to include yours. Or to be less harsh, if the server is temporarily unavailable.
January 07 2008 | Definition and E-mail | No Comments »