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Archive for November, 2008

hCalendar microformat support in the events calendar

Monday, November 10th, 2008

In our continuous effort to support microformats, we are proud to announce expanded hCalendar support on the Wayne State University Events Calendar.
If you are not familiar with microformats the goal is to use plain HTML and embed through classes and Semantic HTML information about the content. Similar to XML to describe content but in plain [...]

[Friday Links] The Welcome Back Meg Edition

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Lets welcome back Meghan Pomroy! We missed her greatly while she was off on maternity!

The Old College Try – Our Very Cool Basketball Commercial
How to Generate Backlinks from Search Traffic from Brand Keywords
A reaction to Howard Sterns thought on Social networks, Social media and blogs.
TEDTalks : The amazing intelligence of crows [...]

Michigan World Usability Day – Nov 13, 2008

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

It is all day dedicated to usability, two usability events happening on the same day. The first costs just $25 and includes lunch. The other is free and happens right after the MSU event, both of their details are below,
Getting to the Point: Improving Transportation through Better Design
The focus for World Usability Day 2008 [...]