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Great IA article.  (#3) Missing Category Landing Pages and (#5) Subsites/Microsites Poorly Integrated with Main Site are the biggest challenges facing large, corporate sites in my experience, especially #3 which still comes up for debate when in my mind it's an obvious requirement from a usability perspective.  

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, May 11, 2009

Unfortunately I've had random ongoing issues w/ IE8 and have tried to uninstall it to no avail. I haven't tried this script, but hopefully it does the trick:

Uninstall Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, Feb. 17, 2009 

Summary:
Mobile phone users struggle mightily to use websites, even on high-end devices. To solve the problems, websites should provide special mobile versions. (Ya think?)

Ok, this caught my eye, too:  Alan Kay famously said that the Mac was "the first computer worth criticizing." Similarly, the iPhone is the first mobile Internet device worth criticizing. It's a starting point for mobile online-services access, not an endpoint.

 

 

 http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/01/internet-explorers-share-of-th.html

 

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/quality-correlations.html

"For users, however, the mix of good and bad design on the same site feels sloppy and like the site doesn't try hard enough to serve them."  --  Hello?!  Did I write this?! 

"We found a 9% improvement in the usability of "About Us" information on websites over the past 5 years. But companies and organizations still can't explain what they do in one paragraph."

Yet another one of those features on a corporate site that you have to include because users expect it to be there, but be succinct or don't bother ..

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: About Us Information on Websites

According to Mary Jo Foley ..

"From what admittedly little I had a chance to see, Windows 7 does not look or feel like a major departure from Windows Vista."

"While Gov. Palin is fairly new to the political scene nationwide, the Alaska native's stance on key topics may give clues into the policies she would support if she were elected Vice President."

BetaNews article

Download Google's new Chrome browser

I do see some issues with rollover links displaying properly on some of the sites I've built, but so far so GREAT!  How's it working for you? 

.. at least that's my experience.  Drop-down menus and graphics aren't fully displaying and Web pages are loading slowly. I'm making Firefox my default browser for the time being (sorry, Microsoft). Anyone else having issues with IE 8 Beta 2 running under Vista? 

According to this Computerworld article "IE8 is epically porcine," said Barth. "Microsoft has gone to epic levels of bloat." 

Microsoft's IE8 Beta 2 hogs memory, says researcher