10 3 / 2011
AT&T Data Calculator
Nice JQuerry based calculator to estimate your monthly data usage. Like the animations and drag-ability. Wish I had ipad around to see how well it works with touch. Don’t like the hard edges of the sliders.
28 2 / 2011
Google Penalizes Overstock for Search Tactics - WSJ.com
Google Inc. is penalizing Overstock.com Inc. in its search results after the retailer ran afoul of Google policies that prohibit companies from artificially boosting their ranking in the Internet giant’s search engine.
Here is a link to Webmaster’s World post that possibly started the investigation from Google.
13 2 / 2011
"The Dirty Little Secrets of Search"
Search Optimization and Its Dirty Little Secrets - NYTimes.com
How J.C. Penney gamed Google’s search results. Some interesting read.
10 2 / 2011
Articles - Feast: The Year of Honeysuckle | iStockphoto.com
“In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits,” said Eiseman. “Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues.”
01 2 / 2011
20 1 / 2011
2011 social media predictions « Brendan Cooper – your friendly social media-savvy freelance copywriter and social media consultant. Or: words make ideas make money.
Some interesting social media predictions from Brendan Cooper, social media freelancer and consultant. Things that I agree with:
“confidence will go down” for social media platforms that continue not having clear monitisation strategy;
“people who make money off social media right now are the ones who get paid to assess its value”;
“Social media curves will continue to go up, but results will continue to disappoint”;
“Social media will only provably work for big companies”;
Very interesting to hear all that from an insider of the industry.
13 1 / 2011
The Gestalt Principle: Design Theory for Web Designers | Webdesigntuts+
Good article explaining why the big picture matters the most.
04 1 / 2011
The Death of Files | Dustin Curtis
The user doesn’t need to know about the technology used behind a product. It doesn’t matter if information is stored in a file, database or several files. The user thinks in terms of tasks and goals he is trying to achieve and when you let users do that, suddenly there is no learning curve for your product. Users already know how to look at a photograph, how to play a song or get rid of an old unnecessary document.
