Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Even if you think you have the best mobile web site on the planet, many people still think the overall mobile experience is terrible. That means that your wonderful mobile web site isn’t all that special to those people.
Let’s take a look: Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks
1. Wireless carrier networks are SLOW
2. Public […]
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
I’ll get to marketing with RSS in just a moment. I’m going to give you a little background first. The context is useful.
Many readers have been asking why WebWord hasn’t been updated regularly. The biggest reason is that I’ve been working like a dog with my brother on our marketing web site. Let me explain…
More than […]
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Saturday, May 5th, 2007
I think you’ll be very pleased with an eye tracking video that Andy Edmonds pointed me to just recently. He spends nearly 7 minutes clearly explaining the benefits of eye tracking research to internet marketers.
This is pure gold for people designing web sites. Usability professionals should be paying attention to this application of eye tracking […]
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
Wired — “But when human avatars approach photoreality? Something weird happens. Our brains rebel, and we begin focusing on the tiny details that aren’t quite perfect. The realism of our avatars suddenly plunges downward into a valley — and they begin to look like zombies.”
I’ve seen this in a few games and computer generated movies. […]
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Monday, September 26th, 2005
Definitely for über geeks…
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Monday, September 19th, 2005
Questions:
1. Who knows more about enterprise search than any other person? Thought leaders? Who would you recommend? Think small, think big. If you can’t recommend a person, what organization would you recommend?
2. How do usability, information archtitecture, and enterprise search intersect? Favorite articles? Favorite research?
3. What are the most interesting and important […]
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Thursday, June 9th, 2005
Floridasexualpredators.com
Chicagocrime.org
Cytadia.com
Housingmaps.com
“All these sites are operating without Google’s permission, clearly violating the company’s user agreement. But none charges any fees, and Mountain View-based Google, which declined to comment through a spokesman, has made no effort to shut them down.”
Read the article…
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
Seth is talking about podcasting again. He is basically making the argument that podcasting will fall into a power law distribution. I’d read Shirky’s comments on power laws and blogs and then move on.
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Monday, June 6th, 2005
People think that Apple is ditching PowerPC chips in favor of Intel x86 chips (or some other type of Intel chip). Daring Fireball has a nice summary of the situation.
But, perhaps people are following the wrong ball.
Here’s the clue. The next generation game consoles (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Revolution) will use […]
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Monday, June 6th, 2005
“Electronic News sat down to discuss the future of consumer electronics with David Milne CEO of Wolfson Microelectronics; Michael Maia, VP of Marketing at Portal Player; Jarreth Solomon, director of technology at Lexar Media; and Allen Leibovitch, semiconductors program manager at International Data Corp. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.”
Read the interview…
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Monday, June 6th, 2005
BBC — “Search engines are not yet clever enough to understand what the user is looking for”
Read the article…
(Thanks Dano!)
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
Search has really just started. We’re not even close to where we could be for two important reasons.
The first reason is obvious. Search sucks. No matter how good Google might be, for example, it isn’t eerily accurate yet. It is good, no doubt. But, it doesn’t always work. Search engines still have a hard […]
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