What a difference 73 years of technology makes! Some UX improvements: Twitter is now free, location-independent, and messages can be viewed longer than two hours!
via: Modern Mechanix
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This is a wonderful email uncovered by Seattle PI and Usability News… a usability related rant from Bill.
“I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.
So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? [...]
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Finally those difficult to use and awkward little buttons on iGoogle are about to be nixed. The problem with the UI is that the ‘remove this’ button marked with an ‘x’ is right next to the ‘expand this’ button marked with a ‘+’. If you’re like me you’re forever deleting the application you’re [...]
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Our friends at iotum released their latest product yesterday amid a lot of positive industry buzz, and Hollywood-style excitement. Calliflower extends the functionality of iotum’s Free Conference Calling service on Facebook. FCC has been used by 200,000 people.
Calliflower is a web-based conference service that features an engaging easy to use interface [...]
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If you happen to be bored in France this week, you might want to attend the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s board meeting.
BTW - ICANN is the organization that “runs” the internet.
A few proposed changes could significantly change our beloved cloud. First, ICANN is looking at ways to [...]
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This morning, BallmerCorp published an application with the awkward title of “Providing Modified Notifications When Inferring a User Might Not Want to be Notified”. The implication is that the user doesn’t really know what he/she wants, so Microsoft will decide.
From the first claim:
when it is inferred that the user [...]
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In my early formative years as a designer (LOL) I believed the usability testing hype: it reduces dev costs, it makes products better, it makes customers happier. Soon I realized that was just crap spewed by “usability testing professionals”. The problem with the usability testing mantra is that it assumes all designers [...]
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Registering at a new social net site can be frustrating when your well-known tag/ID/handle/nick is already taken. “hey, someone else has Mitch69???” DANG!
Even offline, the issue of nicks can be contentious! In Wichita Kansas, C-Thug is a very sought-after nickname!
Sgt. Lem Moore said in a police briefing this afternoon that [...]
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SM friend Alec Saunders’ has the best perspective on the new iPhone that I’ve seen yet (in the past 12 hours, anyhow…)
Favourite quote:
I think RIM has to play catch-up on the handset, but I expect they can and will do that. The bigger issues to me are the structural ones around business model and marketing. [...]
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Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly create a new social network site that would grab traffic… along comes ibeatyou. It launched in January. Its traffic started shooting straight up by February.
Its premise is simple: “I’m better than you!”
Interactions on most social net sites are fairly passive. [...]
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