Recommended Websites

Business

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Faculty Research Papers - http://gobi.stanford.edu/ResearchPapers/: Contains abstracts of research papers written by Stanford Business School faculty from 1990 to the present. Full text electronic copies (PDF format) of selected papers are available online.

Distance Learning

Cardean University - http://www.cardean.edu: An accredited online university offering professional development and education courses. The courses are developed with some of the world's leading universities: including, Columbia Business School, Stanford University, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, and London School of Economics and Political Science.
ArsDigita University Courses - http://www.aduni.org/academics/classes: ArsDigita and MIT courses on, Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs, Discrete Math & Probability, How Computers Work, Object-oriented Program Design and Software Engineering.
Stanford Online - http://stanford-online.stanford.edu: Stanford, through Stanford Online, is the first university to incorporate video with audio, text, and graphics in its distance learning offerings Stanford Online also allows students to ask questions or otherwise interact with the instructor, teaching assistant, and/or other students asynchronously from their desktop computer. Stanford Online is credited by many sources as a significant contributor to the growth of Silicon Valley, and to the competitive technical advantage of companies that participate in continuing education through distance learning.

Free Software

StarOffice - http://www.sun.com/staroffice: A powerful office productivity suite, StarOffice software combines word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentation, HTML editing, e-mail, news reader, scheduling, and database functions in a single environment. Plus, all StarOffice applications work with each other, so you can get your work done faster. Available for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

Human-Computer Interaction

HCI Bibliography : Human-Computer Interaction Resources - http://hcibib.org/: The HCI Bibliography (HCIBIB) is a free-access bibliography on Human-Computer Interaction, with over 20000 records in a searchable database. HCIBIB.ORG is also one of the premier portals to high-quality information on the development of usable software and Web-based systems.
useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site (Usable Information Technology) - http://www.useit.com: Jakob Nielsen, usability guru and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, writes his bi-weekly Alertbox column on Web usability, usability engineering, and Jakob's minimalist approach to Web quality.
AskTog: Human Interface Evangelism & Practical Design - http://www.asktog.com: The Webzine for Computer Professionals, their Families, & Friends.
Usable Web: Links about Web Usability - http://www.usableweb.com: A collection of links and accompanying information about HCI centered on the Web.
WebWord.com: Usability and Human Factors for the Internet - http://www.webword.com: John S. Rhodes explores Internet usability issues through regular articles, expert interviews, book recommendations, a newsletter, and pointers to the best web resources.

Internet Apps

BabelFish Language Translator - http://world.altavista.com/tr: Translate stuff.
Blox - http://www.blox.com: Online Web presentations, spreadsheets, and calculators.

Internet Culture

NetFuture: Technology and Human Responsibility - http://www.netfuture.org: Steve Talbot's NetFuture is a reader supported newsletter with postings every two-to-four weeks or so. It looks beyond the generally recognized "risks" of computer use such as privacy violations, unequal access, censorship, and dangerous computer glitches. It seeks especially to address those deep levels at which we half-consciously shape technology and are shaped by it. What is half-conscious can, after all, be made fully conscious, and we can take responsibility for it.
Free Software Foundation Philosophy - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy: See also video (Part I & Part II) of Richard Stallman's speech on the FSF and the GNU/Linux operating system.
Google Zeitgeist - http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html: Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google. On a monthly, weekly, and sometimes daily basis, this Google Zeitgeist page will be updated to reflect lists, graphs, and other tidbits of information related to Google user search behavior. Archived information available too.

Java Programming

The Java Tutorial - http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/: A practical, example-based guide that thousands of programmers have used to learn the Java programming language. From Sun Microsystems.
JUnit - http://www.junit.org: JUnit is a regression testing framework written by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck. It is used by the developer who implements unit tests in Java. JUnit is Open Source Software, released under the IBM Public License and hosted on SourceForge.
Emacs JDE - http://sunsite.dk/jde: Java Development Environment for Emacs.
ArsDigita Java Training Exercises - http://www.arsdigita.com/boot-camp/psets/java-language-training-pset: Objectives: Give programmers new to Java a quick introduction to the Java development process, the Java language and object oriented (OO) design; Give a quick review for programmers with past Java experience; Provide a quick introduction to JSP; Certify ArsDigita programmers so that they can work on Java projects. Audience: Mainly programmers with little or no Java and JSP experience; Object Orientated design experience is not necessary.
Sun's Java Certification Program - http://suned.sun.com/USA/certification/javamain.html: Sun established the pre-eminent Java technology certification program in October 1996. Today, the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform is so highly regarded that other industry leaders have accepted it as the foundation for their certification Programs.

News

Reuters | The World's Leading Provider of Financial Information and News - http://www.reuters.com: The leading source of Breaking World & Business News, Mutual Funds & Stock Quotes and Global Market Data.
Guardian Unlimited - http://www.guardian.co.uk: Popular UK newspaper website.
The Wire - Breaking News from the Associated Press - http://wire.ap.org: The WIRE is the news Web site of the Associated Press, its member newspapers and broadcasters.
AlterNet.org - http://www.alternet.org: Syndication service of the alternative press, features stories from alternative newsweeklies, magazines and Web publications from across the country, and invaluable resources for journalists and national employment listings.
WSJ.com - Wall Street Journal - http://www.wsj.com: Access to the interactive version, focused on the United States. Log-in and password required.
The New York Times on the Web - http://www.nytimes.com: Daily international, national and local news coverage from the newspaper, breaking news updates, technology news, sports, reviews, crosswords, classified ad listings.
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters - http://slashdot.org: Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
Tomalak's Realm: Daily Links to Strategic Web Desing News - http://www.tomalak.org: Covers the Web daily with selected links to interesting stories about e-commerce, usability, journalism, tools, design and other topics.

Reference

Oracle Documentation - http://www.oradoc.com: This documentation server is made possible by the kind permission of Oracle Corporation.
WhatIs.com: The IT-specific Encyclopedia - http://www.whatis.com: Definitions and explanations for thousands of the most current IT-related words.
Dictionary.com - http://www.dictionary.com: Free online English dictionary, thesaurus and reference guide, online translator and Word of the Day. Uses the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language as its source.

Web Development

ISP/C Mailing List Selections Index - http://www.ispc.org/lists/: The Internet Service Providers' Consortium
Philip Greenspun's home page - http://philip.greenspun.com: Philip, an MIT professor and the Chairman of ArsDigita, decided to freely distribute the curriculum used to teach MIT Course 6.916, Software Engineering for Web Applications. See also on this site: MIT Web Curriculum Free Online.
Web Price Index - http://www.netb2b.com/webPriceIndex/index.html: A long-running national benchmark of how much marketers can expect to pay for Web services. The participating developers are sent the descriptions of services, and return the prices they would charge their clients to develop the projects. The results are then aggregated into the median, high, and low prices.

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