Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 |
Jen Fitzpatrick is an Engineering Director at Google. She currently manages Google’s user experience … all » team, which is responsible for the user interface design and usability analysis of Google’s many products. A founding member of Google’s UI team, Jen has also led the UI design, testing and implementation of numerous features and changes to the Google.com site. In the past, Jen has also served as Engineering Director for Google Adwords and Google’s Internal Systems engineering group. Jen joined Google in June 1999 as a software engineer. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and an M.S. in Computer Science.
ABSTRACT
Focus on the user and all else will follow. From its inception, Google has focused on providing the best user experience possible. Jen Fitzpatrick will take you through the art and science behind Google’s design process and share examples of how design, usability and engineering come together in Google’s unique culture to create great products.
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006 |
….givin free day passes.
On the front page you will see a red sticker saying “Free Today” and the following text:
You can now watch selected videos for free - thanks to our sponsors. These videos usually sell from $0.99 to $14.99.
Apparently this seems to be part of a deal between Google and Netflix becuase when you go to a movie page you will see above the movie an advertising that says:
Free video made possible by www.netflix.com
Netflix DVD Rental Only $5.99/mo - Free Trial! Watch their ad
All in one is a good ideea and a win/win situation. If they can make it permanent this will give them a decent share on the online videos market. I recommend you “Classic Movies” (previously 0.99)
EDIT
More details about how this works from John Battelle:
How it works (from Google):
1. Advertisers select and bid to sponsor individual videos.
2. The winning bidders for each video are promoted in three ways:
- The ability to run a 15-30 second post-roll video ad
- Persistent branding while the video is playing through a text and icon above the video player
- A listing on the sponsored videos page
3. If a user navigates to one of the sponsored videos, we only show the in-stream video ad once the video has finished playing. If the user clicks the text, logo or visible URL above the video window, they will be taken to the advertiser’s site.
4. At the conclusion of the campaign, the advertiser will receive stats on the performance of his/her campaign.
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006 |
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 |
A fresh update to Reblog 2.0 has been released. Be first on your block to install it from http://reblog.org/#download.
This release includes a raft of enhancements, including better documentation for plug-in developers, slightly modified tag behavior that makes it easier to navigate your extensiv feed collection, experimental plug-ins for automatically publishing entries to WordPress, TypePad, Blogger and Del.icio.us accounts, and minor usability improvements too numerous to mention.
This BETA version has been extensively tested, and is recommended for most users. (1 comments)
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 |
It seems that web 3.0 is gonna be composed of services not in BETA but in GAMMA :). After Yahoo rolling out a new interface now is Flickr’s turn.
The update contains:
Navigation
Look for new navigation menus in the top navigation bar: You, Organize, Contacts, Groups, Explore.
Search
When you search from the main navigation bar, you’ll be looking through the titles, tags & descriptions of all the photos on Flickr. You’ll see that you can zero in on your photos or photos from one of your contacts too, and sort the results in a few different ways on the search results page.
Screengrab of the new person menu Person Menu
You can access the new Person Menu by moving your mouse over someone’s Buddy Icon.
Organizr
Double Click and Drag & Drop are your friends when you’re using Organizr. We’ve also added a new section to the FAQ called “The Organizr” where you’ll see that each area of the Organizr has been highlighted and explained, so that’s a good place to start to orient yours
Source: Flickr Blog
All in one a new slick interface.
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 |
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Friday, May 12th, 2006 |
A Yahoo developer announces integration of Yahoo! 360 and Geocities and a possible revival of an old service
read more | digg story
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 |
Software giant considering major purchase of Yahoo! stock in effort to keep up with steamrolling industry leader Google, newspaper reports.
read more | digg story
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Thursday, April 27th, 2006 |
Have you ever wonder how many subscribers a feed has? Well if it is a Feedburner feed wonder no more. Just throw the code below into any html page and replace the BlogName with the name of the feed. In some cases the results are pretty interesting 
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 |
Yahoo plans for free wifi
Originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.
A friend of mine sent me this screen showing Yahoo’s intention to offer global free wifi through partners (limited to Yahoo! IM) and full wifi for a decent fee.
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