Archive for the 'Technology' Category

It Doesn’t Matter if You Have The Best Mobile Web Site

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 […]

Serious Firepower Revealed: Marketing With RSS

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 […]

An Eye Tracking Video That Explains More Than Eye Tracking

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 […]

Monsters of Photorealism

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. […]

Das Keyboard!

Monday, September 26th, 2005

Definitely for über geeks…

Enterprise Search

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 […]

When will the Google Empire Strike Back?

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…

Power Laws and Podcasting

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.

Apple Fired by IBM?

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 […]

“What’s the Next Big Thing?”

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…

The future of search looks bright

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!)

Search Infancy

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 […]