We are not going to get too technical today, since many readers might not be so knowledgeable about web programming. But I’ll offer some guidelines that you can keep in mind when working with your website developers.
As a universal principle: Make sure everything works as planned in all the major web browsers.
First, determine your servers’ [...]
Can mobile OS leader Symbian keep up with rising competition from the likes of Apple, Microsoft and RIM? Natasha Lomas speaks with company CEO Nigel Clifford.Nigel Clifford is CEO of mobile OS maker Symbian, the market leader in the smart phone operating system space. The 49-year-old CEO, a Cambridge University graduate who also has an MBA from Strathclyde University, joined Symbian from another t
Unfortunately, I was only at SES Chicago just one day to present and catch a few sessions but from what I saw it was great. I met some great people and even got some decent SWAG.
My presentation was on SEO and Usability but I primarily focused on the usability of submission forms on Websites. [...]a
SEO and Usability - SES Chicago 2008 Presentation
One of Sydney's leading web development firms operating at the cutting edge of technology and technique is looking to recruit an experienced Information Architect to take on the challenging role of ensuring our clients achieve the best solution to their business objectives and users' needs.
Searching with Google about how to extract Youtube.com thumbnails and use them with your website video sections may push you to start learning about Youtube APIs and Tools, this being a good thing anyway!
In fact this is only the result of recently(?) closed youtube.videos.get_details function (API Function Reference) for new sign-ups.
I know. For most people, [...]
The importance of a company’s website on is success is common knowledge today. Whether a company’s websites is a small website or large, the website’s homepage acts as the company’s face to the world and is often the starting point for most visits to the website. Improving your homepage multiplies the entire website’s business value, [...]
When you have just built your website! What you do?
“HEY EVERYONE! COME HERE AND LOOK AT MY WEBSITE! ISN’T IT GREAT?”
OR
When you first introduce your website in community forums for reviews, what are you asking for? You may ask, “Please tell me what do you feel and think of my website” or “Which color do [...]
This article may help people who interested in re-designing their website for increasing the usability. Following are the points that we have to keep in mind while designing the website.
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Simplicity is key when it comes to navigation. The more simple it is, the better. Your main task is to make sure visitors aren’t lost on your site.
Navigation should be available on each page of your site. The visitor should be aware of where, exactly, he/she is located on the site at every moment. The [...]
While the homepage is your website’s face, the layout is how it looks. You want your face looking good, right? Let’s see how we can make this happen. We have already talked about design and content, and will discuss their sub-elements in upcoming posts. So today I’ll concentrate on the visual essentials of your website’s [...]
Ich dachte eigentlich das die Veranstalter aus dem Jahr zuvor etwas gelernt hatten. Es schien zunächst auch so, es gibt eine mixxt community seite auf der man sich anmelden konnte und es fand ein Ortswechsel statt. Leider schien das diesjährige Motto, Usability im Web 2.0 - “Making life easier” – Are we doing this? sich [...]
The homepage (also known as the main page or the index page) is the face of your website. It is usually the most visited page of any site. It is highly important to make it as user-friendly as possible so that visitors will start navigating your website—instead of leaving it.
The homepage should say it all: [...]
A website is about more than just displaying your product or service information. A website is an experience that directly relates to your business and reputation. Last post we spoke about your home page and how important it is to make a great first impression. This post we expand on that and explain how that impression needs to extend beyond home page.Navigation is keyNavigation is the most impor
First, you had to answer the website usability questions I posed in a previous post. Then, I had you look at the major WU elements of content, design, and development. Now, it’s time to look into your website’s hosting platform and its domain name.
Hosting and Servers
How fast does your site load? It’s not just code [...]
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 [...]
Here are 7 questions to help your business gauge how your website treats your users experience. If you're looking to increase engagement with your audience, check these rules of thumbs for common pitfalls and workarounds.
Last week I started our conversation on website usability. Now that you have answered the three important questions I talked about—and you know what your site’s goal is, who your target audience is, and what your resources are—we can proceed.
All website development and design should fall under those aforementioned three things. You shouldn’t do anything [...]
It’s not all about the web you know, but World Usability Day is still a good thing. Basically it’s all about making life easy for people and this year’s focus is transport.
The Wikipedia definition of usability is:
Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool [...]
This article kicks off a series of posts on website usability. While SEO is great to bring people to your site, WU (website usability) will make sure they enjoy their stay and don’t leave right away.
By focusing on WU, you will greatly increase conversions and sales since users always return, and will refer others to [...]
HCI International Conference 2009
Session invitation on the topic of: Usability and Sociability in Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
We are inviting potential presenters to join us in the session, "Usability and Sociability in Computer Games and Virtual Worlds" in HCI International Conference 2009 which will take place in San Diego, USA, 19-21 July 2009.
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Social oriented games such as MMORP
You have a blog, you get a ton of inbound traffic, the advertisements are providing you with income, and you are becoming well-known.
If you concentrate on the usability of…
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Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth says that his company, Canonical, will hire interaction experts and designers to improve the usability of the Linux desktop. Canonical will also fund improvements to Xorg and other lower-level components of the desktop stack.
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A web design company’s one of the key challenges is to strike a balance between different web design elements. A web design company’s focus is equally on websites usability than on the visual design of the website. There is little doubt that the design of a website is key to its commercial success.
There are many [...]
Lately, website usability is the favorite subject for a lot of people I talk to. They feel the need to improve their sites, to make them easier and more pleasant to use, to increase their conversion rates or just want to know more about what I do here at Avangate.
Knowing that getting on the road [...]
Imagine walking into a retail shop and not being able to tell immediately what services or goods this shop was offering. While this is not a common thing, there are many online ecommerce websites on the internet that seem to have this problem. They sell products online, but its not evident right from the beginning [...]
Imagine walking into a retail shop and not being able to tell immediately what services or goods this shop was offering. While this is not a common thing, there are many online ecommerce websites on the internet that seem to have this problem. They sell products online, but its not evident right from the beginning [...]
The online community is a broader marketplace that a business entity cannot afford to ignore, in case when the business tends to make a strong online nature. Millions of consumers visit the internet everyday just to provide better satisfactory services to people.
On the other hand, the internet poses a quite different challenge. Due to excess [...]
Mobile Usability: How Nokia Changed the Face of the Mobile Phone (Paperback)By Christian Lindholm
Buy new: $39.95$30.3643 used and new from $12.00 Customer Rating: First tagged “nokia” by Paul Eckler Customer [...]
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
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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
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 [...]
As you might remember from my previous piece on gOS, some people have felt like the current gOS offering provided on Everex machines were simply not good enough for casual use.
As you might remember from my previous piece on gOS, some people have felt like the current gOS offering provided on Everex machines were simply not good enough for casual use.
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...
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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
GoArticles Web Design Category Margaret Hanley Head of Consulting at WTG to lead sessions on User Experience and Advertising Effectiveness at leading industry event London 34 xx April 2008 34 Web Technology Group ... - Bali based Web Design, Development and SEO Services
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-
One of Sydney's leading web development firms operating at the cutting edge of technology and technique is looking to recruit an experienced Information Architect to take on the challenging role of ensuring our clients achieve the best solution to their business objectives and users' needs.
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.
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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
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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
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
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 [...]
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
(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
