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- Jakob Nielsen reports top 10 intranets
- Jakob Nielsen reports top 10 intranetsInterestingCompany "F" has layed over 100km of fiber cable in and around their home city. They are changing over to Cisco VoIP phones in all buildings (3 so far). These VoIP phones travel over a private intranet. The company also has great world-wide communications -...
- Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, Intranet, Jakob Nielsen
- Discussion threads 2005-03-03
- Jakob Nielsen reports top 10 intranets
- Web design and usability experts at the Nielsen Norman Group released their annual Ten Best Intranets study. Jakob Nielsen, the "guru of Web usability," said that the difficulty in selecting winners this time around was indicative of progress in designing usable intranets. "More and more companies are treating their intranets...
- Tags: Intranet
- Blog posts 2005-03-02
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- Why Google click fraud is NOT 0.02%
- It is no wonder Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety, invests in lengthy and frequent public missives on how Google “protects you against click fraud,” his almost every Google backed word tends to be cited and reinforced in the media as irrefutable truth!Perhaps the most misinterpreted...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Metrics, Google Software Applications, ROI, Marketing, Blogs, Click Fraud, Google, Legal, Search, Media, Web 2.0, Usability, Business Models
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- MySpace: IT on a wing and a Microsoft prayer
- Baselines David Carr has an interesting tale of MySpaces IT operations. In a nutshell, the company is winging it with a Microsoft-based platform amid massive growth. Here are a few takeaways from the article, which is linked here to the printer version (the story is broken up...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Microsoft, MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-01-17
- AGLOCO: You can't pronounce success?
- AGLOCO is already making the rounds in the blogosphere. I agree with Mike Arrington that it looks like a bad idea repackaged. If they came up with this name, its a bad sign. Liz Gannes points out weve seen this very idea before, as an infomediary called AllAdvantage.com. At VentureBeat,...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Comprehension and Retention
- Comprehension and RetentionNo real need Murph.Just talking about myself here. But if I go to the trouble of picking up a piece of paper to read it, then I actually read it. Assuming there is a reason to read it of course. When it comes to on...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, survey, monitor
- Discussion threads 2006-11-19
- Google PageRank: Biased and fundamentally flawed?
- Is the infamous Google PageRank anti-democratic? Jakob Nielsen says it like it is, not how people want to believe it is. His “Search Engines as Leeches on the Web” post from earlier in the year is a must-read cutting-through-the-hype antidote to search engine Google worship:Search engines extract too much of...
- Tags: participation inequality, Web
- Blog posts 2006-10-10
- Google: Web friend or Web foe
- UPDATE: Google posts its "approach to content" at its blog. I posited last weekend, in the post below, that Google profits-centric "cached content for links" modus operandi is NOT in the best interests of Websites or content owners. Google's blog title says a lot about Google's mind set; It is...
- Tags: INTERNET, Web, Google Inc., Belgian
- Blog posts 2006-09-27
- Today's Links: SEO your blog, Beer here, OpenCourseWare
- INTRODUCING “TODAY’S LINKS”Welcome to the inaugural edition of “Today’s Links,” a new regular feature presented by this Digital Micro-Markets Blog. “Today’s Links” is an eclectic round up pointing to noteworthy news and worthy analysis from all around the World Wide Web.Know of any other noteworthy news or worthy analysis? SHARE:...
- Tags: OpenCourseWare, blog
- Blog posts 2006-09-07
- Interview: Taraneh Razavi, Doctor at Google
- Taraneh Razavi is not your ordinary physician. She's the doctor at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, where she's in charge of maintaining the Googlers in good health. But she's also interested in how tech trends affect our health and preventive care in general. A few months ago, she started...
- Tags: health, Google Inc., blog, Taraneh Razavi
- Blog posts 2006-08-04
- A guide to email newsletters and RSS usability
- Jakob Nielsen and Amy Schade of the Nielsen Norman Group just published a 544-page study on email newsletter usability, including 165 guidelines for subscriptions, content, managing accounts and RSS-based news feeds. It’s the third edition of the study, which the company has done about every two years so far. One...
- Tags: newsletter, Nielsen Norman Group, e-mail
- Blog posts 2006-06-16
- Web Usability experts not appreciating in value
- Jakob Nielsen, usable information technology analyst, has taken a look at “Salary Trends for Usability Professionals" over the past seven years. Here are his findings:Entry-level staffers were paid unrealistically high salaries during the bubble, when dot-com companies were desperate to hire any warm body that walked in the doorExperienced staffers...
- Tags: Web, salary, staffer
- Blog posts 2006-06-09
- Web design 2006: State of the art
- Worth reading: Jakob Nielsen has made a career out of analyzing Web site design. He, along with co-author Hoa Loranger, just published Prioritizing Web Usability New Riders, which surfaces many of the major mistakes in Web site design and offers usability guidelines that might save us all from ugly and...
- Tags: Web Design, Web Site Design
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- Eye tracking Web usability
- User interface guru Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group is on the road, giving seminars based on a recently completed an eye-tracking study that indicates how users consume Web pages--such as where people start browsing on a page, whether they have banner and text link blindness, where users look...
- Tags: Nielsen Norman Group
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- URL Hotties
- To take a leaf out of ValleyWag's book, It pays to be attractive, even for URLs! I was doing research for the O'Reilly book I'm co-writing and came across some gushing posts about URLs. About how beautiful they are. As Mike Schinkel once put it, "Well Designed URLs are Beautiful!"...
- Tags: URI
- Blog posts 2006-02-17
- Tipping point: The Web is easier to use than your hard drive
- Tipping point: The Web is easier to use than your hard driveFlawed analogy8 billion pages on the web does not equal 8 billion different features or options in software. It means 8 billion files.You could get to 8 billion different files on your computer just as easily. Assuming they...
- Tags: Channel management, Apple Macintosh, hard drive, Web, operating system, AJAX, AJAX Application
- Discussion threads 2005-12-07
- Only 55% of teens browse the Web successfully
- Jakob Nielsen debunks the myth of teenagers being cyber-geniuses. Only 55% of surveyed teens were successful in completing a task on the given Web site, while adults' average varied around 66%. Teens' poor performance is caused by three factors: insufficient reading skills, less sophisticated research strategies, and a dramatically lower...
- Tags: Web
- Blog posts 2005-01-31
- Only 55% of teens browse the Web successfully
- Jakob Nielsen debunks the myth of teenagers being cyber-geniuses. Only 55% of surveyed teens were successful in completing a task on the given Web site, while adults' average varied around 66%. Teens' poor performance is caused by three factors: insufficient reading skills, less sophisticated research strategies, and a dramatically lower...
- Tags: Web
- Blog posts 2005-01-31
- 95% of users hate po-ups, 69% use pop-up blockers
- Usability guru Jakob Nielsen presents findings of research done by Yahoo! and eBay in regards to the most common site annoynaces. It's hardly a surprise that pop-ups, slowness and various gimmicks to enforce users clicking on the ads rated at the top of the annoyances list. Design Element Users Answering "Very Negatively" or "Negatively" Pops-up...
- Tags: pop-up blocker
- Blog posts 2004-12-08
- 95% of users hate pop-ups, 69% use pop-up blockers
- Usability guru Jakob Nielsen presents findings of research done by Yahoo! and eBay in regards to the most common site annoynaces. It's hardly a surprise that pop-ups, slowness and various gimmicks to enforce users clicking on the ads rated at the top of the annoyances list. Design Element Users Answering "Very Negatively" or "Negatively" Pops-up...
- Tags: pop-up blocker
- Blog posts 2004-12-07
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