SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience

Unlike Social Net sites, LinkedIn is not a tool you typically use on a daily basis. You set it up, tweak it now and then, and respond to requests for adding connections. I’ve noticed that a big surge of requests usually coincides with a major layoff (or impending layoff). [...]

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Zoom Info , the grand-daddy of corporate who’s who hasn’t been in the limelight for a while - probably because it’s functionality lags way behind sites like LinkedIn. In an effort to re-invent itself, it officially launched a public API today. The company hopes that developers will create interesting business apps leveraging [...]

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It seems that “Generation So-Net” equates web 2.0 User Interface with glossy Aqua-like graphics. The big problem with most sites is a poor information architecture. Navigation is usually unpredictable and scattered. Bad design is common even in the most popular sites. For your consideration:
Facebook. I suppose millions have gotten used to their clumsy layout. Recently, [...]

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If the Facebook open API is any indication, LinkedIn’s announced app platform should generate a lot of interest from developers. Granted, most of the Facebook apps are a bit “juvenile” - although I can appreciate the satisfaction of biting your old boss and turning him / her into a brain eating zombie! What [...]

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I signed up for LikedIn ages ago - but until this year never took it seriously. But after a bunch of invitations, I started searching my past. Wow - people I never thought I’d find were there.
Yesterday I found Gene deRose. Gene was co-founder of Jupiter Communications. Based in New York, he reported on emerging [...]

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