Usability

Although Web usability has received lots of hype, especially during the dot-com meltdown, the focus has been mostly on technical issues. Usability experts stress the pitfalls of frames and too many images on Web pages. They recommend editing out unnecessary words and writing in a non-linear style-all valuable advice, of course. But less frequently do they highlight the importance of the visual pre

Book Description ISBN-0071385142 When it comes to delivering product design innovations to mobile device users, Nokia is the company against which all others are judged. Now, the philosophies and working methods by which Nokia revolutionized product usability are explained for the first time in Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone. Written with great insight [...]

Research has shown that your website usability many times will affect how well you do with sales and keeping customers coming back. Most people think that putting up a website and adding a few different things will make them a success. It does not work that way. In fact, the usability of your website can make [...]

Interview: New Virtual Instrument Maker FAW Talks Usability and Design - Circle from Future Audio Workshop is an upcoming virtual instrument that’s gotten our attention in a big way. In terms of sound, its capabilities are familiar, if very complete. What’s different is its approach to interface design and usability, refocusing on “Flow” and ease-of-use while looking forwar

For those of you who are regulars on Flickr, there is a wonderful new image client for Mac. Flickery, from Eternal Storms software, does it all. Well, not everything, but it does most of it. All within this little app, you can view your Photostream, your contact’s Photostream, upload new photos, delete photos, download photos, comment on photos- you name it. I only have a few gripes with the

Or rather, usability testing in New York. If you’re reading this you’re probably a WordPress user. If you also happen to be in New York City and have some free time you may be able to influence development and get some free WP stuff at the same time. We’ll be testing the WordPress interface over the [...]

Navigation Navigation describes the way users navigate within a page, between different user interface controls (buttons, boxes, lists, windows etc.), or between pages via e.g. links. To determine whether or not your page is easy to navigate through consider the following. Is the application’s navigation intuitive? Are the main features of the site accessible from the main page? Do the site nee

Most businesses when they decide to invest in SEO services expect results almost instantly. Granted with efficient SEO techniques this is almost possible but it is all pointless if the host website is not user friendly. Usability is becoming increasingly the buzzword in the search engine optimisation industry as how a website services its customers [...]

Do search engines care about the usability of your web pages? Does it make a difference whether your web pages are easy to navigate or not? A recent patent application from Yahoo indicates that... More info can be reached on

Richard Bray - CIO Government Review, April 28, 2008 - Usability is critical for good mobile security.  The consequences of a data breach can be far-reaching and complex, but in almost every case the cause is simple. An employee, the 'average user', has either taken a shortcut around the security procedures or lost a device with critical data in a public place, or both. Randy Sutton of Ottawa's Elytra Enterprises asks, "How many laptops got lost this week? How many have been stolen? We don't hear a lot about it in Canada, particularly in the government, because nobody wants to report it and there's no legislation forcing you to report." Sutton keeps a list he calls 'theft a day' and it's a rare day when he can't add another breach somewhere in the world that'

Usability refers to the level of ease with which a user can interact with the graphic user interface of an application, website or web development solution. Conducting a usability study on your recent website project is especially important in the competitive environment of web development in London The study of usability promotes methods of improving efficiency and ease of use during the design process.There are many attributes that are measured to establish whether usability has been successfully implemented. These include learnability, efficiency, memorability, errors, utility and satisfaction.Learnability - refers to the level of ease with which first time users can interact with the interface and how easily they find it to perform basic tasks.Efficiency - is measured in the speed at w

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6 Ways to improve your blogs usability Having spent a considerable amount of time compiling the top 100 UK blogs list it seems that most bloggers are lagging a long way behind “normal” websites in terms of usability. The points below are a collection of the major problems I see on blogs every day. Remember that a [...]

The following is a list of things that can help you in increasing your blog’s usability. Navigation: There are variety of templates to give skin to your blog. But choosing the best template is a critical job. Templates with scroll down to the bottom of the blog to navigate are not the best choice. Stick to standard [...]

No matter how brilliant your website design is, if it is hard to reach the content of your site then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally.The first method is to make sure the typography of your content is suitable. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use CSS to space out the lines accordingly. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be. Also, make sure the font size of your text is big enough to read easily. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes to read the actual text.Make it easy for visitors to find content that they want on your site. If yo

As you may know, earlier in Jan’ 08, Google AdSense had lowered down, Personal Identification Number (PIN) from $50 to $10, which is used to help verify publisher accounts and addresses for security purposes. Google send this PIN via standard mail when your account first reaches $10 in earnings.  Google has created a demo video showing “what [...]

Quality At the forefront of Check 21 are issues of image quality and usability and how to ensure that standards are met. Image quality refers to specifications that determine if images are: • partial or heavily skewed • piggybacked-an image scanned onto part of another image • folded or have torn corners • have excessive spot noise • [...]

This article is an investigation into whether search engine optimisation and usability are compatible, enabling a user to find a website in a search engine, and then find what they’re looking for once they’ve found it. Usability and search engine optimisation are both of fundamental importance when developing websites on for the Internet. SEO [...]

Source: stuffthathappens.comThe comparison is unfair since the purpose of the applications is different. Nevertheless, how do we use the 3rd screen? It seems to save a record, we need to click Apply to end edit mode, then click Save to save record then click Okay to dismiss the form?? It is common to see business applications with unnecessary complexity.I guess the common approach is to have a Customer list plus a pop-up edit form after select a record. Recently, I rolled out the new version of my application to clients. The biggest change I made from previous version is allow the users to edit directly on the data grid listing but I keep the pop-up edit forms for 'backward-compatibility'. After visiting several clients across Malaysia, I am surprised to find out that no one uses the pop-

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Usability plays a very important role on the web. A website with poor usability will more often than not encounter a high bounce rate. A bounce rate is a common term for the amount of people who reach a site, but leave shortly after their arrival. A high bounce rate is just one of the [...]

Stoney deGeyter recently wrote a great post on when usability is more important than SEO. Stoney ends by stating “By fixing usability issues you can sell more while without having to spend a lot of money always trying to bring in a lot of new traffic. A little goes a long way. Once you are [...]

No one will be contented to see just one third part of their medical report or the inspection report about their car. So why should we be satisfied to get just one credit report out 3 available. Single credit bureau report may not be covering the all aspects of your credit worthiness. So to get the complete view of your credit history, 3 in 1 credit report will be the best option. Before taking a

DescriptionWhen it comes to delivering product design innovations to mobile device users, Nokia is the yardstick by which all others are judged. Now the process and working methods that have enabled Nokia to revolutionize usability are fully explained for the first time in this beautiful, four-color book.Written with insight by two veterans of Nokia's design triumphs (co-author Christian Lindholm was featured in the August 2002 issue of Business 2.0 magazine)this one-of-a-kind reference vividly delivers:* The complete design process, from concept creation to product testing* The future of small interfaces* Usability engineering in practice in the mobile environment* The elements of a Nokia User Interface* First person accounts of the product development cycleLearn the processes that helped

DescriptionWhen it comes to delivering product design innovations to mobile device users, Nokia is the yardstick by which all others are judged. Now the process and working methods that have enabled Nokia to revolutionize usability are fully explained for the first time in this beautiful, four-color book. Written with insight by two veterans of Nokia's design triumphs (co-author Christian Lindholm was featured in the August 2002 issue of Business 2.0 magazine)this one-of-a-kind reference vividly delivers:* The complete design process, from concept creation to product testing * The future of small interfaces * Usability engineering in practice in the mobile environment * The elements of a Nokia User Interface * First person accounts of the product development cycleLearn the processes that h

The nature of updating a page dynamically using data retrieved via AJAX interactions and DHTML may result in drastically changing the appearance and state of a page. A user might choose to use the browser's back or forward buttons, bookmark a page, copy the URL from the URL bar and share it with a friend via an email or chat client, or print a page at any given time.When designing an AJAX based application you need to consider what the expected behavior would be in the case of navigation, bookmarking, printing, and browser support as described below.* Navigation - What would be the expected behavior of the back, forward, refresh, and bookmark browser buttons in your application design. While you could implement history manipulation manually it may be easer to use a JavaScript frameworks such as Dojo that provides API's history manipulation and navigation control.* Bookmarking and URL sharing - Many users want to bookmark or cut and paste the URL from the browser bar. Dojo provides cl

Hello all... this morning I'm sharing with you a great article I just read regarding the importance of website usability and accessibility. After spending so much time focused on SEO and Internet marketing, an often overlooked aspect is onsite conversion. Attracting visitors to your website is the first step, getting them to stay and convert is the second. In previous posts I've spent much of the time speaking about attracting visitors, improving search result placements and so on. Now its time to focus on making your site user friendly and easy to navigate. Keep in mind the concept of the purchase decision process - what is yours? What path must prospective customers take to review and purchase your product? These are the questions you must ask yourself and design your site accordingly to streamline the process and create a GREAT user experience. To read the full article on improving your website's usability and accessibility, click here. For more free marketing advice, visit the

So you've optimised your website, done the keyword research, got the backlinks and everything is ethical. You're sitting proudly on the first page of the search results. Or you've set up a pay per click campaign, bid on your keywords, created some ads and performance tracking is in place. Again, you're at the top of the pile. Either way, you're visible and people are visiting your website. But visitors aren't converting into leads, prospects or customers. What's going wrong? Well your website may be visible, but is it connecting?Having attracted visitors to your website through prominent search engine placements, it is vital not to lose them by failing to connect. Different visitors will have different priorities and levels of satisfaction. In order to reach and retain as many as possible and to maximise the chances of conversion, you should consider your site's usability and accessibility.Web usabilityUsability is all about providing your visitors with an effective, efficient

I have a “Family Friendly Blog” Family Friendly Blog I have been doing a lot of reading lately about search, marketing, usability, landing pages, conversion rates, etc, to keep myself up to date with the latest on SEO/SEM. That’s one of the reasons I have not been posting with frequency, hope to be able to do it again by next January. Meanwhile I wanted to share with you a fun resource, it’s about a series of quizzes on personal health, finances and a tool to check whether or not you have a family friendly Blog. I had fun, plus found a few great tips to think about and improve my health and my finances. You can check it at: (If you find the information at the SEO Practices Blog useful, please help us support it by giving this Blog some “Link Love”: Linking to us or bookmarking our site.) (more…) online marketing, seo community

Im Foyer des HHI, als Veranstaltungsort des diesjährigen World Usability Tages, konnte man die eine oder andere Eye- bzw. body- tracking Anwendung bestaunen. Die Veranstalter waren sehr bemüht die community zusammenzuhalten. Was ihnen auch in dem kleinen, aber vollen Hörsaal ganz gut gelang. Für mich war das der zweite Schritt in ein mögliches neues Geschäftsfeld. Nachdem ich dankenswerter Weise, von der Marketing Abteilung meiner Stadt, den Autrag bekam, einen Usability-Check der homepage potsdam.de durchzuführen. Es gibt unglaublich viele kombinierbare Methoden! Ach was auch sehr interessant war: Usability for NGO´s! - an diesem Stand gab es einen sehr aufschlussreichen Fragebogen, mit dem man ganz schnell ganz viele interessante Dinge herausbekommen kann! Hier noch ein paar Eindrücke auf flickr.

Auf dem MVP Open Day gestern in München hatte ich eine interessante Diskussion zum Thema mit Torsten Weber und Andreas Donaubauer, beide MVPs und glückliche Besitzers eines HTC Touch Geräts. Meine Vorgeschichte mit den berührungsempfindlichen Displays ist ziemlich lang. Ich habe fast alle T-Mobile Modelle (MDAs, Varios, etc) ausprobiert und war dem Konzept über die Jahre recht treu. Ich finde es auch Klasse, keine Frage. Allerdings nach dem Samsung Blackjack habe ich nun die Meinung geändert - ich bin vorerst kein Toucher mehr. Warum? Die Gründe sind vielfältig und sicherlich zum großen Teil subjektiver Natur, allerdings gibt es einige Themen die mich (persönlich) in der Praxis produktiver machen und das ist der eigentliche Grund. Zumindest geht es mir so. Inzwischen sind alle Geräte recht schick - Meizu MiniOne M8 sieht sogar genauso wie iPhone aus (links oben am Bild). Man kann die Geräte eigentlich kaum unterscheiden. Eine wirklich unverschämte Kop

Auf dem MVP Open Day gestern in München hatte ich eine interessante Diskussion zum Thema mit Torsten Weber und Andreas Donaubauer, beide MVPs und glückliche Besitzers eines HTC Touch Geräts. Meine Vorgeschichte mit den berührungsempfindlichen Displays ist ziemlich lang. Ich habe fast alle T-Mobile Modelle (MDAs, Varios, etc) ausprobiert und war dem Konzept über die Jahre recht treu. Ich finde es auch Klasse, keine Frage. Allerdings nach dem Samsung Blackjack habe ich nun die Meinung geändert - ich bin vorerst kein Toucher mehr. Warum? Die Gründe sind vielfältig und sicherlich zum großen Teil subjektiver Natur, allerdings gibt es einige Themen die mich (persönlich) in der Praxis produktiver machen und das ist der eigentliche Grund. Zumindest geht es mir so. Inzwischen sind alle Geräte recht schick - Meizu MiniOne M8 sieht sogar genauso wie iPhone aus (links oben am Bild). Man kann die Geräte eigentlich kaum unterscheiden. Eine wirklich unverschämte Kop

http://www.xeal.com You can't break the rules till you've learned the rules Usability, as you hopefully know, is all about making sure that the people who come to your website can find the information or product they want, and ensuring they can find it quickly, efficiently, and with minimal hair-tearing. Unfortunately, some people just don't know the guidelines, or just don't follow them. This can lead to a lot of frustration on the part of the user, and if users are frustrated, then chances are good they won't be back to your site. Whether you're building a new site or redesigning an old one, here are a few usability tips you should be keeping in mind. Consistency Consistency is one of the most important aspects of usability. The page style, text style, colors and navigation should be consistent throughout your entire site. Not only does this help with usability, but it will also help with building your brand online. By using those visual cues throughout your site, peopl

So another way of looking at what makes a good website is to describe it in new terms. A good website is: Search engine optimizedAccessibleUsable Many of the factors that make a site better at one of these also improve it in another, there is lots of overlap between them. For example, a site that is (x)html semantically structured (the xhtml explains the document, not how it looks) will be easily

Planning an online business? I use to advise my friends and customers concerning this great “adventure”. Many times they introduce me to their terrific projects and, when defining their online strategy, they fail in some little usability things. Even I use to tell what I think and criticize these issues, many times my advices are not implemented because they suppose their original idea is great. I recently find this article in Smashing Magazine that resumes the common usability issues I criticize when I find them in the project I received: 10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of It presents the most common usability nightmares everyone should avoid when designing functional and usable web sites. Please, take a carefully look and know how I think!. Source: Smash Magazine

eBOOK Details Publisher friends of ED Release Date February 27, 2006 ISBN 1590595947 eBOOK Description In this free book, you'll find a number of concrete Flash usability solutions that use elements such as navigation menus, data filtering, forms, content loaders, Flash liquid layouts, help tips, and many other features. You'll learn how each of these solutions actually improves on what is

Unlike web accessibility which impacts directly upon disabled users, web usability affects all users, and can be defined as a measure of how easy it is for a generic site visitor to carry out a task such as finding a given piece of information or buying a certain product.• Consistent placement of navigation and page structure• People read left to right, top to bottom • People scan copy looking for relevant links [headings and bulletpoints are good devices . . .] • Therefore: most important screen area = top left • Create a logical screen hierarchy [following the above points] • Clearly title all your content, and pages • Keep your content concise • Features supported by images can be very eye catching • Use general language [avoid technical jargon where possible] • Consider what your audience are likely to be looking for • Users are impatient. Design for a 2-10 second maximum download. Reuse header graphics so they can load from cache. Avoid excessive s

The Firefox browser succeeds because it’s designed for everyone to use and is a labour of love, the founder and president of Mozilla told attendees of a Westminster eForum on open source software in London yesterday. The browser, which saw its 400 millionth download earlier this week, has 110 million active users and 18 per cent of the market share for browsers, Tristan Nitot told the audience. (more…) Share This

What do all web browsers have in common? They look for certain consistencies across websites. These consistencies are in core elements that make navigation and utilization efficient and allows them to find information quickly In this post, Richard Hill suggests a number of ways that you can re-design your website in order to achieve improved usability and layout without starting from scratch. Here are his key suggestions.. Simple Navigation Navigation that is clear and consistent. Probably the worst issue is 'lost visitors' – those who are in a maze and don't know where they are in the site. The site should always allow users to easily return to the home page and preferably get to any page with a single click. Studies have shown that users want to find things quickly, and this means that they prefer menus with intuitive ranking, organization and multiple choices to many layers of simplified menus. The menu links should be placed in a consistent position on every page. Cla

(Archived in: Online Usability Technology in Plain English)I recently have had a few email exchanges with the developer of Click2Voice explaining the various scenarios for both domestic and international calling using this free VoIP service. I have copied the illustrations below along with the email dialog. First a few comments. Cick2Voice individual calls are limited to 10 to 15 minutes per call. However, there currently is no limit to the number of calls per day. The acronym 'us pstn” below is an acronym for U.S. Public Switched Telephone Network. Just think of it as infrastructure. I am not sure why the word “skype” is half orange and half blue, but I left the information below exactly the way it was sent except for adding a few links.Answers to Click2Voice Email Query: “The significance of having a SkypeIn number (or any VOIP softphone with a U.S. phone number for that matter) is to give someone in another country a phone number in the United States. Since I provide U

Das Web hält sich nicht an Regeln. Und wenn es eine Regel gibt, dann ist es die, dass es keine … Na ja, Ihr wisst schon. Alle Regeln über den Haufen geworfen hat jedenfalls Arngren, der norwegische Online-Shop. Dessen Website erinnert an einen Prospekt, den man normalerweise mit spitzen Fingern in den Abfall schmeißen würde. Schweinebauch [...]

No matter how brilliant your website design is, if it is hard to reach the content of your site then your site is as useful as an empty shell. Here are some tips to improve the usability of your website to ensure it serves its functions optimally. Web2Submitter - Web 2.0 Promotion Software.The first method is to make sure the typography of your content is suitable. If you have large blocks of text, make sure to use CSS to space out the lines accordingly. The longer a single line of text is, the greater the line-height of each line should be. Also, make sure the font size of your text is big enough to read easily. Some sites have 10-pixel-tall text in Verdana font; while that may look neat and tidy, you have to really strain your eyes to read the actual text.Make it easy for visitors to find content that they want on your site. If you have thousands of articles on your site and a certain visitor wants to find one single article from that pile, you have to provide a feasible means to en

During a recent conversation with a tester friend (who also happens to be a mentor and critic of me and my blog), I was informed that Michael Bolton came across my blog and was impressed by some of my posts. That was really a great news for me. But the joy was short-lived, when I was informed that Michael Bolton actually did NOT like the layout of my blog! This was quite disturbing and

During a recent conversation with a tester friend (who also happens to be a mentor and critic of me and my blog), I was informed that Michael Bolton came across my blog and was impressed by some of my posts. That was really a great news for me. But the joy was short-lived, when I was informed that Michael Bolton actually did NOT like the layout of my blog! This was quite disturbing and

There are 3 tools I've come to use so much that i cant live without but the thought dawned on me the other day that they might be able to be used for usability testing competitor sites, User acceptance testing and HTML Prototype testing. In conjunction they are a powerful set of tools. I've place them in order of price, the cheapest can be used on its own with the next 2 adding functionality.The ideas here take for granted that you have your test subjects lined up and your test script is already written. For more information on how to do this check out Jacob Nielsen's site http://www.useit.com/1. Log Me In http://www.logmein.com/This is a remote access tool designed to easily access a remote PC via a web browser. It basically gives full control of the host PC's functions. The funny thing is that whilst a PC is being controlled you can see everything that's going on, it looks like its possessed! Its great to install at a friends house then login and start playing loud music at 3 in

Absolutely great page describing the elements of web design and SEO. As you all know, I am a Joomla convert (earlier this year, a newbie really), but these guys explain it all very simply. If you're looking for a one webpage summary of how the web pages work and how to be safe with SE's, then spend 5 ins browsing this page Stuart =========================================================== "

Absolutely great page describing the elements of web design and SEO. As you all know, I am a Joomla convert (earlier this year, a newbie really), but these guys explain it all very simply. If you're looking for a one webpage summary of how the web pages work and how to be safe with SE's, then spend 5 ins browsing this page Stuart =========================================================== "

Professor Richard Bellaver of Ball State University - an expert in software usability - has been conducting a series of usability studies with children in a local school (see Richard Bellaver Current Endeavors). They are reported in TeleRead - the first report was Kids and e-books: Good news from Ball State’s e-dictionary studies and the repeat study is Students favor e-books over paper books in yet another BSU study: Lesson for K-12 and publishers?The first report was published in September 2006, and covers comparison dictionary studies conducted at the Huffer Memorial Children’s Center in Muncie Indiana and Kennard Elementary School in Kennard Indiana in the Spring of 2006. A third comparison dictionary study was conducted with adult users at Ball State University. All three studies showed that experience in using eBooks is the key to speed of usage. All adults (college students) with much experience in conventional hard copy look-up and no eBook experience had slower times usin

We break down barriers and provide you with an easy way to cooperate with us! German speaking users and partners are welcome to visit http://www.eltima.com/de/. Or you can just click the German flag and see the entire site in your native language.Still there is more I want to tell you about! We also made some inetrface changes to our main site Eltima.com. As you can see the site navigation became more convenient and simple. You can reach the product page just from the main page in one click! We appreciate your attention and are happy to save your time. From now you don’t have to spend much time searching through categories to find the product you are interested in - just look through a pulldown and choose the software to find out more about it. Eltima and its achievements prove the company slogan – Eltima is the clever way!

(Archived in: Online Usability Weblogs and Business)Some attention is being given to things other than Google. Hakia, Snap, and even Clipmarks, are just a few of the newer search tools that are getting noticed for good reason. Snap has been used in the Digital Nomad blogs. It is an easy way to search and bookmark topical information.Much hope is also out there for new SE competition from the likes of Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame and a Wiki-type search engine. Search Wikia is not the final result, and the project originally was promoted as Wikiasari (see "Wikiasari-Wikipedia Founder launching a Google Rival") return to this post.Now, what is exciting about all of this is it confirms that there is plenty of room for alternative search models not based entirely on indexing. Hakia is interesting because it is based on artificial intelligence. Additionally, the idea that socially driven search engines could become a Web 2.0 alternative to Google and Yahoo is pretty intriguing.Profy.com b

Microsoft adCenter will launch an updated version of their paid search advertising platform. The superficial updates are aimed at pleasing advertisers by making the system easier to use. The updates include: Renaming “Orders” to “Ad Groups” Easier navigation between ad groups and campaigns Bulk editting for keywords Adding data sets (keywords, ad groups or campaigns) to Favourites, to enable quick [...]

When mobile phones were not that much popular – only a particular section of people were privileged to enjoy the mobile world. Those were the days when both incoming and outgoings charges were made by the network operator. With the changing time and the technology – mobile phones have become the easiest way of communications. And definitely the new age mobile phones are like a computer that offer multimedia as well as digital features and more. With the change in the mobile technology and as consumers are finding more options – consumers preferences are also changing. For example, music phones are more popular among younger generation, business oriented phones are popular among professionals, etc. And to cater to the needs of mobile users – leading mobile manufacturers are making all efforts in introducing such phones. A youth's passion for mobiles has possible links to many of aspects. In summation of all, it is understood that the freedom of communication and portability o

(Archived in: Online Usability Technology in Plain English)I am still wading through the pros and cons of using online apps that are abundant on the Internet, including ZOHO, and ThinkFree (with more to come).Of course, none of these will probably ever displace Microsoft in the 9-5 workplace cubicle, but they are certainly handy for the small business entrepreneur and Digital Nomads. Much has previously been written on this in the way of reviews.Although Open Office is not truly an online office suite, I still lean towards it, since it is readily accessible, and I like the fact it is open source sponsored by Sun Microsystems, works across so many platforms, and is becoming an international standard of sorts. It's simply not going to go away.Besides, Google Pack will continue to improve, and probably will gobble up anything "new and innovative" of merit to integrate into their online offerings, as the market for online apps continues to mature in the next few years.For a few reasons no

  Recently, Yahoo! and Google have both been adding new options to their search engine result pages (SERPs). These options include Google’s PlusBox and and Yahoo’s Quicklinks. Illustrated below is Google’s PlusBox for Walmart. They have a PlusBox for their stock quote that expands to give stock information. Along with that, they have category or sub-page links within their site. Google typically does this for strong authorative Websites with a high amount of Trust Rank.             Another example below shows Google’s PlusBox being used for localized search. They have a PlusBox that shows the localized listing in the SERPs with their map, address, and phone number. You don’t have to be an extreme authority to have a PlusBox with this type of localized integration. Yahoo’s Quick Links are similar to Google showing subpages for authorative sites. However, Yahoo! will also be charging for these Quick Links if you’re a site that doesn

Attention all Powered Keylogger users! In this series of articles we will reveal keylogger’s ordinary at the first glance, but extremely useful features. Whether you’ve been using Powered Keylogger for a couple of days, or already a fan of this keylogging software for a couple of years – it doesn’t matter. We all know that Powered Keylogger was developed to provide you with maximum information about what other people do on your computer when you are away. Obtaining information, you obtain control! Well, as far as Powered Keylogger is such a massive and multi-functional tool with lots of features, it seems complicated to puzzle out how to filter all those logs that are being saved all days. Sitting and just looking through all of them will take loads of time and get you lost in all that amount of information. When you need to search for something special inside all those logs, something specific that has been typed in particular applications or definite applications

(Archived in: Online Usability Social Design Weblogs and Business)Here is yet another free service recently launched that is something between a Blog and Twitter. You can use it for short posts (Tumblelogs), as additional exposure to feed readers from your favorite blogs, and and as another way to promote online.Tumblr was "dugg" on Digg a few days ago. Who know where it will lead and how popular it will become. It is also similar to Ziki. If you are not familiar with Ziki, you can read about it at my Sovereign Journey post. SuperGlu is another...hey what has happened to all the "e"s?It seems like the blogosphere is getting crowded with a new launch of such truncated services popping up on a weekly basis. Check into it, and make a comment or two with your thoughts. Maybe it will become a useful tool for people on the go, including Digital Nomads.Strategies for Making Money When You Want from Where You Want

Book Description In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the Web—Designing Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and has revisited his classic guide, joined forces with Web usability consultant Hoa Loranger, and created an updated

Google may have an overwhelming market share in the online search market, the company has been famously incapable of making as much as a dent in areas such as web mail, or instant messaging.Yahoousability Yahoo's Jeff Bonforte today offered some free advice on what caused this failure: a complete lack of usability.Google is ruled by engineers, but they make for a lousy target audience because they will try any new application that has a blinking light and makes rattling sounds. The challenge is to get to the masses.In the video below Bonforte explains the challenges that Yahoo is facing, as well as Google's faillure in web usability.http://bollywoodjunction.blogspot.com/atom.xml

I guess Yahoo felt they needed to be in the news this week - no matter what the reason. It’s the only explanation I can think of for Yahoo’s Jeff Bonforte, senior director of real time communications, attacking Google’s usability efforts. “[Google] definitely is lacking in usability,” Bonforte said in a meeting with reporters at Yahoo’s corporate headquarters. “They don’t have this intimate connection in usability with consumers that Yahoo has had for 10 years. When it comes to consumer applications, no-one is more successful than Yahoo hands down. And it happens over and over and over again. In every application, we are number one or two.”I can’t resist pointing out something interesting about Bonforte. Bonforte joined Yahoo 18 months ago and heads up the company’s messenger product…Online application providers should focus on limiting the number of features that they deliver, he argued. Where adding features will alienate users, the company found that

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Last night I noticed Google had added a few new features to Gmail. There isn’t anything revolutionary, and the one that interested me the most is what they call the “Embarrassment-reducing new message notification” which will let you know if a new message arrives in a conversation while you’re in the middle of composing a reply to that conversation. Most of the other updates are fairly minor. The one thing I did note was the user interface changes. And I wasn’t really thrilled about it. I couldn’t put my finger on it until I read Google Blogoscoped this morning and they nailed it: the UI uses too many random types of interfaces. There’s no real consistency between what’s a link, what’s a dropdown, or even what type of dropdowns are used. They’ve got regular HTML dropdowns in some places and shiny DHTML dropdowns in others. It seems while Google can do a simple interface with one function really well, their UI people stum

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It has long been known that an e-newsletter is a useful addition to your marketing and public relations efforts. They are, after all, a warm, powerful communication medium that encourages a strong, lasting relationship between you and your readers. There is some new clarity in the world of online newsletters thanks to research coming from the Nielsen Norman Group in their latest report on Email Ne