From: "Jakob Nielsen"
To: "Cameron Barrett"
Subject: RE: Very interesting...
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:11:57 -0800
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This is pretty scary. I have had people copy smaller parts of my design or
articles, but never the entire website. It's not just the homepage that's
copied. The Trendspotting column is like the Alertbox, complete with yellow
highlighting of the "See Also" cross-reference. And when you do a View
Source, you find that the CSS style sheet is called "Useit house style". And
it goes on: the Spotlight essays are slightly reworded versions of my own
Spotlights form last week ( archived at
http://www.useit.com/hotlist/spotlight.html ). So in fact, some of the
content is also the same!

As an example: humansource says:
A new survey made by PWC in conjunction with the World Economic Forum at
Davos, shows that only 37% of European CEOs use the Internet at least once
per week, even though 82% of the CEOs suveyed believe that "electronic
business will have a strategic impact upon their firms."

The 18% who don't believe in e-commerce may lack vision, may run a chain of
barber shops or simply are just paying lip service to the Internet hype.
However, is it better than the ignorance of the 45% who do understand that 
the world of business will be changing dramatically, but avoid a deeper 
understanding through personal experience?
American CEOs use the Internet 50% more than European CEOs. Better, but
enough to prepare them for the future? (February 15, 1999)

I said:

Here we go again: A new survey shows that only 37% of European CEOs use the
Internet at least once per week, even though 82% of the CEOs believe that
"electronic business will have a strategic impact upon their firms." The 18%
who don't believe in ecommerce may lack vision (or they may run a chain of
barber shops), but that's better than the ignorance of the 45% who do
understand that the world of business will be changing dramatically but
avoid a deeper understanding through personal experience. American CEOs use
the Internet 50% more than European CEOs: better, but still not enough to
prepare them for the future.


Better get some screen shots of this site while it is still up. I would
expect him to change it soon.


And thank you for bringing this to my attention. I hadn't seen it before.

- Jakob

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From: "Jakob Nielsen" 
To: "Cameron Barrett" 
Subject: RE: Very interesting...
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:51:17 -0800
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Just in case the matter does come to court, could you please do me a favor
and go back to

http://www.humansource.com/

today and do a "view source" and verify that it is true when I say that the
HTML code includes an unchanged reference to the stylesheet TITLE as "Useit
house style". Maybe even print out the HTML code and sign it as having been
downloaded on today's date. Nice to have independent witnesses.

(Actually, please append the above paragraph about verifying the stylesheet
TITLE to my previous email before you post it to your site. More witnesses
would be even better).

- Jakob