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January 18, 2006

First impressions count, even for the web

The other day while browsing some news on my new favorite web 2.0 news site, News Vine, I stumbled upon an interesting article. Apparently a group of researchers ran a study on how long it take the average person to decide to critique a site and decide whether they like it of not. The astonishing thing was that the researchers original guess was 10x longer than the truth was. It turns out that the people in the studied decided in 50 milliseconds. In conclusion the researchers figured this is what leads to the HALO effect to some sights leading to more visitor and reliability. So here's my question to you, what are you first impressions of PROnetworks main web page. Thanks for any feedback. Heres a link to the orignial artical; [Via BBC]

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August 14, 2005

The Wayback Timemachine

I'm not really a history buff, but when this came up I was amazed by the genius behind this. It seems that the folks behind the Internet Archive had cooked up this time machine into the past for a while now. The general idea behind the site was that you could plug in the URL of the site you wish to see and it would take you to a cached code of a previous incarnation of the site. Now if the site had completely removed all the images then you would only see a barebone of the site, CSS + HTML, without the images.

To quote Bryan,

According to their Frequently Asked Questions, Alexa Internet had a large part in the creation of the archive (maybe that’s why it sucks).
Alexa Internet has been crawling the web since 1996, which has resulted in a massive archive. If you have a web site, and you would like to ensure that it is saved for posterity in the Internet Archive, and you’ve searched wayback and found no results, you can visit the Alexa’s “Webmasters” page at http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/index.html#crawl_site. […] Sites are usually crawled within 24 hours and no more then 48. Right now there is a 6-12 month lag between the date a site is crawled and the date it appears in the Wayback Machine.

With this said, dang 6 months, no wonder Alexa has trashy ranks.

After doing a few searches, of PROnet, on the Wayback machine I found that it was still pretty cool. Here's some of our history.

Now if you managed to stick to reading my trashy writing this far, just and FYI in know way did I mean to discriminate towards Alexa.

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August 04, 2005

Hello, World (Inaugural Address)

Hi, This would be the first incarnation of Pro-neTwork's 'Blog.' What you see is, the some what, outcome of much work by a small group people; Corey Welsh, Mark Dietz, George Tzivelekis, Larry Richman, and my 'Supervisor,' Paul Gunnels. Through those dedicated staffers brainstorming we came up with this elgent 'transperant-fluid' design.

Which Brings us to this...

With all of that said, welcome to Pro-neTwork's 'Blog.' If you look around you will notice that the Blog is cleverly mocking the main site and forum, speacialy the header and menu. Contained inside you will find an appropriately named 'Archives' section, that includes all the junk I write, with all the great articals the other write too!

Well, that's about it. I hope you enjoy what ever is to come. Please leave some comments below about your love and/or hatred of us. Enjoy!

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