Quoted: If you've moved a few pages or even a whole site, here are a few ways to get your visitors to where they were going by automatically redirecting them.

Quoted: The Web is built for browsing—not deep reading. Everything about reading on the Web is designed to shorten your attention span. Every link promises that whatever you’re currently reading isn’t nearly as interesting as the thing behind the link.

Quoted: I think that's an important part of the economics of the web that are left out of most discussions of Internet business models. Yes, we are turning analog dollars into digital pennies in many cases. But we are also doing the same thing on the cost side, maybe even more so. And I think that "operating leverage" is going to create a lot of value.

Quoted: 1. symbolics.com: March 15, 1985
2. bbn.com: April 24, 1985
3. think.com: May 24, 1985
4. mcc.com: July 11, 1985
5. dec.com: September 30, 1985
6. northrop.com: November 7, 1985
7. xerox.com: January 9, 1986
8. sri.com: January 17, 1986
9. hp.com: March 3, 1986

Some thoughts re: landing page design.

Quoted: So the better you are able to help them answer these two questions, the more likely you will be to catch and keep them as a user.
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5 ways to CONFUSE users and get them to LEAVE
Here are a couple great ways to do exactly what you don't want:
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1. Presenting a portal as your front page
2. Use lots of marketing speak
3. Write everything in long-form text
4. Make them register to do anything
5. Treat every user the same

Some things to keep in mind if you are writing applications for the "new facebook".

Quoted: On the canvas page you can prompt the user to allow your application to access more information and ask for additional permissions. This is essentially the same as what we earlier announced as authorizing an application, but now the experience is even more lightweight -- see the sample login dialog to your right. This Ajax dialog replaces the current add page and the login screen you saw in earlier posts.

Quoted: A site's signup page is the second most important page on a site (the most important is the home page itself) because this is where you're asking for committment.

I've been hearing good things about this "Frontpage replacement". I picked up a copy for a friend this morning from the Microsoft company store.

Quoted: Unlike FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver, Expression Web creates tight, easily maintained CSS-based pages automatically, instead of treating CSS as an add-on to traditional HTML. This alone may make Expression Web the leading Web editor before version 1.0 is even released.

Seems like cool stuff. I suppose the only downside is lack of support on Linux unlike both Flash and Ajax.

Quoted: Microsoft have also demonstrated today that their vision is for all browsers and all web users, not just users of Internet Explorer, as a common theme during the keynote presentations was inter-operability with both Firefox and Safari, and working with the Mac OSX platform.
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Today, only 14 days from the original announcement, Microsoft has officially announced that Silverlight will also contain a compact CLR, allowing developers to build desktop like applications on the web in a number of supported programming languages.
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The most remarkable part of the CLR are its speed and its size. First of all, the full Silverlight download with CLR and everything else will weigh in at around 4MB - which with current broadband penetration is effortless. Second of all the CLR is fast, very very fast. In a demonstration today showing a game of chess routines written in .NET competed against native Javascript routines and the result was a speed difference of orders of magnitude. Developers can simple take their existing Javascript and copy it into Silverlight and have it perform multiple times faster than it does in the native browser environment.