From disliking on Facebook, to the launch of the Motorola Droid, to the debut of Twitter Lists, it's been an exciting week in the social media and tech

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3D TV, HTML5, video over Wi-Fi, superfast USB and mobile "augmented reality" will emerge as breakthrough technologies in the next few years.

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Sometimes an audience's resistance to buying has nothing to do with intellectual uncertainty.  They understand what's in it for them and they get the logical

If we could tear into the fabric of time and look a decade into the future, what kind of experience might we find? In this article we will explore creating a timeless user experience.

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"Applying Principles of Game Design to Engage Business Users" A recent survey of over 70 Fortune 500 CIO's identified enabling "collaboration across remote locations" as one of their significant challenges over the next 3 years. Yet, we have seen a…

How to maintain the user research history of a project

Four fundamental forces of change are driving the evolution of the user experience for the Business User in 2009: (a) economic recession and its impact on the enterprise IT budget (b) enterprise governance, security and business policy requirements force "hardening"…

How should you go about collecting data in usability tests? This article examines the data collection process in usability studies and describes some popular data logging solutions.

Most people that carry out usability expert reviews use Jakob Nielsen's ten usability 'heuristics'. Many of these guidelines are common sense but they are not based on substantive research. The International usability standard, BS EN-ISO 9241-110 proposes an alternative set of seven guidelines. These guidelines have the benefit of international consensus and they can be applied to any interactive system.

Guidelines for home page usability, task orientation, navigation and IA, forms and data entry, trust and credibility, writing and content quality, page layout and visual design, search usability, and help, feedback and error tolerance.

<p>Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the <b>Flash Art Of War</b>, <i>the oldest Flash military treatise in the world</i>. In this AFT I will go over – <strong>5 Tips for Documenting Code</strong>. Documenting code is not high on many people's lists of things todo. Most of the time it is boring, repetitive, and time consuming. If you want to get better at documenting your own code then this is the post for you. I have 5 simple rules to follow while coding to make the process easier.</p>

We applied two simple criteria to identify the 50 most usable RIAs: Number 1: Does it adhere to the <a href="http://designingwebinterfaces.com/6-tips-for-a-great-flex-ux-part-5">10 basic usability principles</a>? Number 2:Is it really <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/theresaneil/designing-rich-applications">rich</a>? Developing a product with Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight doesn't inherently make it rich. A usable RIA will embody these <a href="http://www.designingwebinterfaces.com">six principles</a>: Make it Direct, Keep it Lightweight, Stay in the Page, Provide an Invitation, Use Transitions, React Immediately.

To grow money, you have to know money. And to know money, you need to study it: Its movements, who's making it (and why), who takes it away, how to keep it, and

View more presentations from Jason Baer. This is a Webinar I conducted recently for MarketingProfs (a Convince & Convert client), sponsored by Citrix (makers of GoToWebinar and GoToMyPC). The Big

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The financial crisis has economists striving to understand why it happened. Yale's John Geanakoplos takes inspiration from Shakespeare.

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Democracy Does Not Equal Freedom – Though you hear that a lot

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Earlier tonight, Microsoft unveiled the redesign to its MSN.com web portal. The new look is far more minimalistic than its predecessor, increases its

Yahoo Open Sources Internal 'Traffic Server' – The company is becoming one of the most open tech companies of its size

Google Is More Attractive Than Microsoft – In the first global index of employer attractiveness

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Google Ordered to Pay $47 Million in Taxes in Turkey – The local government and Google disagree on whether the company has to pay taxes for its subsidiary there

A weaker dollar is a big help for commodities and the railroads that carry them, not to mention a certain shiny yellow metal.

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From Cheez Doodles to cars, marketers are increasingly trying out the new technology in an effort to make deeper connections with consumers.

Happy Birthday, Ubuntu! – Our favorite operating system is turning 5 years old

Mandriva Linux 2010 Officially Released – Includes KDE 4.3, GNOME 2.28.0, Linux kernel 2.6.31, X.Org 7.5, and more

New technology 'patches' the operating system kernel, protects it from rootkits

Apple Using Google to Kill Windows 7 Hype – The Mac maker appears to be using search sponsored results to reel in potential switchers

iPhone 4 in Development, Casing Revealed by Manufacturer (Rumor) – Photos of next-gen iPhone parts leaked

Heartened by the reception for new search engine Bing, Microsoft has simplified MSN's home page to play up search with the detail of a local paper.

Small and medium-size businesses, governments, and school districts are targets of online bank fraud involving malicious e-mails, key loggers, and money mules, FBI says. Read this blog post by Elinor Mills on InSecurity Complex.

Kratos spares no one on his quest for ultimate vengeance.

As consumers readjust their spending, the top brands featured in the 2009 BusinessWeek/Interbrand Best Global Brands ranking have had to rethink their marketing

Here are the Gold International Design Excellence Award winners for 2009 in the commercial and industrial category

While newer cars have certainly become more sophisticated with technologies like Microsoft's Sync, we've always dreamed of an in-car dashboard capable of

Macao, the former Portuguese colony on the south China coast, is now home to five of the 10 largest casinos in the world

Warren Buffett said he's making an "all-in wager on the economic future of the United States" with the purchase of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe. Let's hope it's a bet that Buffett wins.

This is another official update to the original &quot;Shift Happens&quot; video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on t…

If you think the universe of e-book readers begins with the Kindle 2 and ends with the Kindle DX, think again. That universe is expanding rapidly. We recently completed thorough hands-on testing of seven of the top e-readers available today and came to a surprising conclusion: Our number one choice…

Amid the endless pronouncements about social media — often by consultants — is the reality that social media is not a solution, or a sure bet.

New Google Ads Take Aim at Mortgage Lead Gen – Publisher: MarketingVox

Many webmasters and website owners fail to notice the fundamental changes the web has taken in recent years. People still waste time with meta keywords tags, obsessing about PageRank and measuring keyword density for highly artificial sounding page copy.

Social Media Marketing is getting a lot of attention in the media on and offline, causing many business marketers to wonder how to adjust budgets and resources

You can follow him on his blog at TAKA DESIGNS. This has also appeared on sites such as ESPN. They break the traditional online advertising medium by creating new…

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Zuckerberg's brainchild is a monster hit in the making, says the former president of Time Inc. Interactive.

Your OS Will Be Online Submitted on Twitter by dahquium. Within the next few years, the Web may fully replace more established methods of content delivery. With video…

Nielsen To Refract Digital Media Planning, Brings PRIZM To Online Consumer Targeting – 11/02/2009

A few weeks ago I wrote about some of the business problems or challenges that exist with social media ROI.  Today I want to address some of the technology

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Since forecasting its first annual decline in profits in six years, Nintendo has become the subject of a slew of "What Went Wrong?" articles. The answer? Nothing.

Social search is web search aided in some way by social networks. Google (NSDQ:GOOG) launched its own social search this week. Who else is on this scene and how can social search help you find what you are looking for?

Can't decide if your new product or startup idea is worthwhile?

Higher Ed TV – Behind the Scenes: Start of the Academic Year Video from Imperial College London

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New features will bring better integration of apps on user home pages.

Swarthmore College runs the online version of its magazine on WordPress

Ribbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions. It …

David Cearley, Gartner, discusses the top 10 strategic technologies for 2010 from Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009. For more information, visit: http://w…

Performance-driven culture will be one of the four disciplines required to support a Pattern-Based Strategy, according to Gartner, Inc. It predicts that through 2015, organisations that implement it supported by performance management applications will outperform their peers by at least 30 per cent.

No longer do search-engine marketing advocates have to convince big marketers on the value of search.

While it might be true that the number of Book apps is growing at a faster rate, Games continue to dominate the list of popular U.S. iTunes Apps. Games accounted for about a fifth of all iTunes apps over the past week†, but the category continued to have a disproportionate share of the Top 100 charts, accounting for 52% of…

From rules to tools to help you on the road, iPhone apps can be your friend.

Are you looking for a video editing software tool that will not empty your pockets? Do you want to spend less than $100, but still get more than basic video editing? In this MasterNewMedia comparison guide you will find the best consumer

How marketers can get the best results during the upcoming holiday shopping season from social marketing initiatives.

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How marketers can get the best results during the upcoming holiday shopping season from social marketing initiatives.

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HFI's Usability Central Gold gives your developers and designers access to the industry's best usability practices, tools, guidelines, and services.

Use this simple, 25-point checklist to assess critical website usability issues. Includes free download (1-page PDF).

Our friends at BillShrink, who developed an interactive tool that lets you compare handsets and pick the best phone-plan combination, …

If you want to create a viral video these days, you need to do something great and unique. A couple of days ago, Sony Australia smashed a PS3 slim into a Bravia

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Cheapskate? There's an app for that. Lots and lots of them, actually. There are iPhone apps that will plot a busy day of hitting yard sales, produce coupons for instant discounts at supermarkets, shops, and restaurants, do price comparisons and summon product reviews while you're mulling the options…

What can we learn from this morning's surprisingly strong 3.5% real GDP growth report? 1) Goldman Sachs does not know all. The bank's economists had been on eerie run of sending out prescient alerts the day before major data releases—mainly the monthly employment numbers—that described in det…

*pats on head* so cute, with their little anxious yet eager faces. Will anyone talk to them? Will they make new friends? Will they make an ass of

Usability and zombies go together like Halloween and candy corn. Why? Because zombies do management techniques that you should copy and mimic.

Social media is a big place, and navigating the many networks and tools can be tough. Here are 10 great ways small businesses can make the most of social media.

A reminder how far away from an average web user people like you and I are.

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Henry Behrens, at the time the smallest man in the world (just 30 inches tall!), dances with his pet cat outside of his home in Worthing, England, 1956.

Fifi the chimpanzee &quot;plays&quot; chess with a young London Zoo patron. Sharing 95 percent of their DNA with humans, the extremely social primates excel at tool usage, number recognition, and sign language.

Penn Olson – Your Social, Media, Brand Catalog.

A roundup of 40 notable and prominent female designers, who can be seen as perfect role models for anyone working their way towards their web design career

Follow us on Twitter: @ highgearmedia @ carconnection @ therealma @ greencarreports and join our Facebook fan page Carpooling, gas prices, and mapping: is the killer app for your car found in the iTunes store? The world of social media's descending, bit by bit, to your car.

How adults use social media inappropriately.

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Nintendo reveals plans to launch a monster-sized iteration of its DS gaming handheld dubbed the DSi LL in Japan this November.

Google is getting into the turn-by-turn driving direction business with a new app for Android 2.0 handsets.

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ZDNet UK quizzes Ben Grimes, chief technology officer of management software firm Avocent, about key licensing issues

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One of the Web's basic tenets is that small contributions from lots of people can amount to something powerful in the aggregate.

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Halloween is creeping up on us — and as kids anticipate the occasion with excitement bordering on mania, parents often express concern.

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When Jimmy Wales visited the headquarters of Hudong.com last month, he had one question for its founder: is it possible for Wikipedia to be the number one online encyclopedia in China?

The giant financial institutions that make up Wall Street have been bailed out, thanks to trillions of dollars of our money, and are on track to hand out record-breaking multibillion-dollar bonuses while millions of regular folks are hurting

It was 1969 and a busy year for making history: Woodstock, the Miracle Mets, men on the moon — and something less celebrated but arguably more significant, the birth of the Internet.

Once upon a time royals and elites had to don elaborate disguises to mingle with their people. Now they have Twitter.

A British man being held by Somali pirates has spoken to a British television news broadcaster from aboard a container ship where they are being held hostage, according to the Press Association.

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A new Web service based on an algorithm helps determine chart-topping hits that has shown to pick winners eight out of 10 times.

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Google has just launched a major new feature that incorporates streaming audio previews when you search for an artist, album, or song using the search engine.

A U.K. firm is set to launch a camera to capture every moment of a person's life. While you may reel at the privacy implications, I'd wager that the high price of not capturing and sharing every moment of our lives will soon dwarf the cost to our privacy.

This collection of 15 articles pulls together some of the best must read blog posts for anyone looking to get started with CSS styling.

Facebook is quietly offering a fix to one of the social-networking service's most awkward loose ends — what happens to user profiles after they die

A radio without any knobs. A bathroom where a clear display wirelessly streams vital statistics on your health. And a user interface that takes brain waves

A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products,…

This week ReadWriteWeb is running a series of posts analyzing the 5 biggest Web trends of 2009. Our first post was about Structured Data, our second about The …

Twitter's not all narcissistic minutiae and celebrity retweets: Jonathan Ames used it to obtain a TV, from his employer, via "whining."

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