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“Everyone knows that if you are going to operate a business in today’s world you need a domain name. It is advisable to look at the domain name selected as other[s] see it and not just as you think it looks.”
These are great examples! The lesson is simple: Test your domain name on other […]

“Much has been written about the impact of ‘email overload’, in terms of the productivity cost and impact on attention spans for staff. There is another very real cost of the reliance on email: the duplication of information management activities.”

Video Games for the Military — “A new arms race begins as more countries develop video games for their militaries. These experiences are often called “training” games. But don’t let that benign label fool you. The target outcome is to modify people’s attitudes (e.g., desensitize to killing) and behaviors (e.g., create reflexes for fighting).”
Related:

Usability […]

I don’t fear change but I do avoid making updates to WebWord. I’ve probably made 4-5 major updates to WebWord since I launched back in August of 1998. The reason is that when I make changes to WebWord, I inevitably have technical problems. Let’s hope that the release of the new WebWord home […]

“Turn almost any page into a RSS feed, and get the latest information no matter how it is published.”
WEB2RSS is cool…

“Whenever you ask a CEO about the importance of customers, you hear the requisite platitudes. But in fact, customers have often lost out in the relentless push to maximize shareholder value (as represented by the stock price) and to maximize it immediately.”

New rule: The customer is king
Bigger picture: Tearing up the Jack Welch playbook

“The core of Coburn’s formula is that a new technology should be widely adopted only if it meets two criteria. First, it has to address a problem, and second, that problem has to be more painful than the perceived pain of adopting the new technology.” (Read more…)
(Thanks for the link, Dano.)

“Keepin’ it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen”
Don’t miss the video.
(via fsbrainstorm v3.0)

Pay Attention to the About Us Page — “5-7% of home page visitors click through to the About Us page. Shoppers who view that page convert at a rate 30% higher than shoppers who do not see that page.”
Awesome.

Usability and Games: 17 Excellent References
The 14 Tips That Will Make You Happy, Wealthy and Successful
The Psychology of Search: Chapter Three (Related: Found and Lost)
Usability Redefined: Howability, Taskability, Recommendability, Profitability
A Business Case for Usability
Information Architecture for the Rest of Us
How Social Bookmarking Can Help a Project Team
Google 2.0

“Your online reputation may precede you during a job search, and it could keep you from getting your foot in the door, according to a survey. More than three-fourths of executive recruiters surveyed said they routinely use search engines like Google and Yahoo to learn more about candidates. Even more significant, 35 percent said they […]

“The following are the titles of recent articles syndicated from WebWord.”
I found this page recently when I was searching for some old links into WebWord. There is so much stuff out there like this it amazes me. I suddenly realized:
There’s no way to keep track of it all.
(Reputation management anyone? It is going to […]