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Flickr “stealing” users from Google Image Search

Flickr has find an interesting strategy to capture the visitors that arrive to the website through Google Image Search. Each time you arrive at a photo page using Google, Flickr will provide a yellow note just below the search with the text: We found 262,353 photos matching [keyword]. Click “search” above to see! Also the [ READ MORE ]

Goodbye Chrome. At least for now…

I’ve been using Google’s Chrome as a default browser both at work and at home since it’s lunch. I was pretty aware of the fact that’s a beta product and that some additional stress is mandatory. But after 2 months I’m done. Switching back to Firefox. Here are my main reasons: 1. Is 2008. No [ READ MORE ]

Google Analytics false alarm

This morning I’ve noticed that Google Analytics had a slightly different user interface. Due to the fact that usually this kind of changes is associated with new features I rushed to check but with no results. Now Google Analytics blog confirms that this is just a minor UI change. Bleah. No goodies today [ READ MORE ]

Custom menus for Wordpress CMS

Blogs in general don’t need custom or advanced menu. What comes by default in Wordpress or custom themes is enough for most of the users. But when you try to use Wordpress as a CMS platform for a medium size website you realize that’s not enough. The challenge appears when you have too many static [ READ MORE ]

Broken by design: Technorati registration form

  • September 27th, 2008
  • Posted in IA

Even though Technorati is not anymore what it used to be a few years ago, today I tried to create an account for a project. Big mistake. Is the year 2008 and Technorati is doing miserable mistakes in the registration form that not even the smallest underfunded startups are not doing. Mistakes: They require as [ READ MORE ]