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“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.”
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Usability Studies 101: Forests & Trees
Usability Studies 101: Maslow’s Hammer

“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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

“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 […]