From the monthly archives:

June 2008

web 2.0 is a fig leaf, according to FT

June 30, 2008

FT covers web 2.0for enterprise solutions, seeing it as yet another silly trends “Web 2.0 is an industry fig leaf covering the naked emperor of computers’ inability to understand meaning and purpose. That said, in many situations if you are naked, even a fig leaf can be useful”, viewing community as  “I like Britney too… [...]

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you gotta fight for your right to auuuuuuuuuction!

June 27, 2008

Last week Businessweek published a piece about the new winds blowing under eBay’s wings – a set-price-retailer wind. The changing market and advanced technology have unfortunately given too many tools for a specific type of user to be able to ruin the auctioning user experience for the majority of other users. it is no fun to [...]

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Guitar Heros are accessibile!

June 25, 2008

Wired have an interesting piece about guitar hero designed for the blind: “It’s a guitar-based music game that can be played without looking at the screen. Folmer’s group developed a glove that vibrates your fingers a split-second before you’re supposed to play each note in the game. It’s difficult to play, but with enough practice [...]

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emotional branding

June 25, 2008

Last week BusinessWeek mentioned Emotional Branding book as a useful tool for innovation. I searched for the Emotional Branding blog and couldnt find it, but accidentaly ran into this useful list of 10 commandments of emotional branding. I found it very useful, especially in light of the last post which was about the basic rules [...]

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FF3 and IE8 – different strokes

June 25, 2008

As Firefox launched Firefox 3 (aiming to break a Guinness world record with most downloads done in 23 hours) it was fascinating reading this not too long piece about the different philosophies leading the new FF browser vs the new and upcoming IE.

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MySpace wants to be Yahoo/Google

June 16, 2008

In light of MySpace redesign to be deployed this week, I recommend reading an interesting interview for AdAge, where MySpace founder is expressing his new vision : MySpace as the strongest web portal. worth a read. more info on: * splash pages, new navigation, new profile editor, new search, tv player – read more info. [...]

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UGC vs Expert content

June 13, 2008

Want your video to show on Paulo Coelho’s new film? All you need is to contribute to his MySpace page. First it was J.J. Abrahams with Cloverfield, a movie which I personally didn’t enjoy at all, but was a brilliant studio move in response to the UGC (User Generated Content) threat – a movie which [...]

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power of online communities

June 9, 2008

It was 8 years ago when I learned first hand the power of online communities. I was working as an Editor of some of IOL (Israel On Line) Communities, an advanced space that gave people the platform and power to connect, develop – and sometimes learn to let go (of problems haunting them) through communities. [...]

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seven golden rules for a solid UX. actually – make that 16.

June 8, 2008

It was really interesting to come across this list of 7 aspects of great User Experience, given by Andy Budd, a designer and developer at Clearleft in the User Experience (UX) Melbourne conference. Andy’s 7 aspects are: 1. First Impressions Count 2. Attentive Service 3. Personalisation and Customisation 4. Attention to Detail 5. Feedback 6. [...]

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