Summary: The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment — especially to websites, which must […]
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Commenting on google news – follow up
http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/answer.py?answer=74123&topic=12285, The instructions are: * How do I submit a comment to Google News? * If you have been mentioned in a story and you […]
New Global Study From MTV, Nickelodeon and Microsoft Challenges Assumptions About Relationship Between Kids, Youth & Digital Technology
The report found: Technology has enabled young people to have more and closer friendships thanks to constant connectivity. Friends influence each other as much as […]
Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them
In the last several years we’ve seen the rise and fall of many social web applications. While most of our attention gets paid to the […]
URL as UI
The URL will continue to be part of the Web user interface for several more years, so a usable site requires: a domain name that […]
Measuring site success
There is no mean average for time spent on a campaign style site. Just as with every other form of outreach, your audience will have […]
THE BEST WEBSITES ARE USEFUL AND UGLY
Functionality and usefulness are far more important to the success of your website than how nice and elegant it looks. The first time I saw […]
Nielsen Shuts Window on Pageview Rankings
Yahoo reports that Nielsen/NetRatings will be scrapping the pageview-based rankings system that’s long comprised the industry’s webpage yardstick, in favor of tracking the length of […]
Web Application Form Design
“Input elements should be organized in logical groups so that your brain can process the form layout in chunks of related fields.” –HTML: the Definitive […]
Web Site Surveys
I was making a survey in SurveyMonkey and found a Web site visitor template that may be a good start (look in the general business […]