The Mysterious ZeroByte.dll

Trying to open a presentation with Powerpoint 2007 Beta under Windows Vista Beta 2 throws this mysterious error: Bad Image | C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\XLATORS\ZEROBYTE.DLL is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software…

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Google Media

Google Media How Google will change the way you experience music, television and media in general. Google, Google, everywhere It seems you can find Google just about anywhere these days. Internet search? Check. Satellite mapping? Check. Photos? Check. Online shopping? Check and check. Advertising? Check. Web analytics? Check. Finance? Check. Video? Check. Music and television?…

Reading the web – How visitors interpret your website

Jakob Nielsen does an interesting analysis of reading patterns on the web. By tracking the eye movement of hundreds of visitors while visiting thousands of websites, he’s come up with a visual map showing how these users examine, read and interpret a website. It turns out they mostly do an “F” pattern on the page,…

GMail: growing pains?

All day today it’s been increasingly difficult to access one of my GMail accounts. My brother had the same problem yesterday with his account. I started seeing plenty of “Oops… the system was unable to perform your operation. Please try again in a few seconds.” After a while, these turned into outright “Server errors.” What’s…