“Which means, according to Yahoo’s study, 31 percent of online users consume some form of RSS. “The majority don’t know they’re using it,” said Scott Gatz, Yahoo’s senior director, personalization products.”
“Google is the world’s largest advertising agency.” (reference)
“Atlas” enables you to develop Web applications that can update data on a Web page by making direct calls to a Web server — without needing to round trip the page. With “Atlas”, you can take advantage of the best of ASP.NET and server-side code while doing much of the work in the browser, enabling a richer user experience. (reference)
“ASP.NET “Atlas” is the codename for a set of technologies to add Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) support to ASP.NET. It consists of a client-side script framework, server controls and more.” (reference)
“ASP.NET ‘Atlas’ provides a foundation for building rich web applications using a suite of ASP.NET Server Controls, Web Services and JavaScript libraries. These simplify and enhance application creation by providing in-built controls and components that can be used in traditional JavaScript script and event or, through ASP.NET ‘Atlas’ script.” (reference)
“I like to think of Atlas as an end-to-end framework, rather than simply being “yet another AJAX library”. Atlas is designed to be an end-to-end application framework spanning client and server development, and the communication between the two. In addition it provides an application framework that enables developers to put together components, and wire them up together.” (reference)
So, what gives with the quotes and double quotes around Atlas. Very silly.
Tim O’Reilly — What Is Web 2.0
Wikipedia — The Long Tail
BBC — Anthropology in Business
Inc. — Anthropologists Help Explain Consumer Behavior
Amazon — Nifty Diamond Search Slider Widgets
Elegant Hack — Widgetopia
Silicon Valley — Ignoring others way too easy with gadgets
Expero Inc. — Free Usability Advice
(Oddly enough, Expero is a technology driven company. Strange for a usability company, eh?)
Channel 9 — Sparkle?
ClickZ — How Is Information Passed Around the Web?
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Brought to you by Lou Rosenfeld:
Because Users Don’t Care About Your Org Chart
October 20, 2005
Seattle, WA
$795 per seminar
$695 if you register by September 23
Also, brought to you by Steve Krug (That’s Crooog to you!)
Don’t Make Me Think: The Workshop
October 7, 2005
London
£499
October 21, 2005
Seattle
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And finally, here’s a quick plug for MarketFace.
Fine, here’s a linky link for Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability too. Swoosh!
I think it would be cool to increase the priority (relevancy) of my search results based on what my trusted friends and colleagues viewed and/or recommended. Seems to me like some sort of P2P engine could collect our activities and share it out. The closer the relationship, greater the trust, and higher interaction, the greater those pages would rise. I’m probably not being clear so I’ll just pretend I am writing this post for myself.
“This article contains a large list of the factors that can influence a web document’s rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase.”
Great overview for those that care about this topic.
Looks like he’s back in action. Awesome.
Daniel Szuc asks:
“If we assume that users only click into the first 1-10 pages of search results. What’s the point of showing any more?
“Why do search engines display any more than the maximum amount of results users are willing to look at in the first place?”
Here’s what I think. Almost everyone knows that users rarely move past the first search results page. It probably makes sense to show, say, 25-30 results on one page and one page only. Then provide users with all sorts of tools to help them refine or re-try their search. I’ve said it before: Search is still crude and stupid.
What do you think?
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