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Learning from Amazon.com

Jared Spool (UIE) is always fun to listen to, and his latest work of art, “Revealing Design Treasures from the Amazon” is now on Slideshare. In the presentation, Spool introduces Amazon.com as a unique place on the Internet, where strange things happen, like the reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz. Some [...]


Tips from Two Tweeps

Boston has a very strong usability community, which every year turns out in great numbers to their own annual “Mini-UPA” conference in the spring. It’s called Usability & User Experience and it actually has grown to compete with the national UPA conference.
A couple of my former peers at Bentley (@jledwell and @kaniasty) created a great [...]


Explaining Twitter

It’s safe to say that Twitter is now accepted as another means of communication. It fits right in with email, blogs, and social networks. The service has also gotten a lot of attention recently with news networks and celebrities (e.g. Shaq, Britney Spears–look at WeFollow.com for more). Anyway, here is a funny clip from SuperNews, [...]


Obama’s First Weekly YouTube Address

President-elect Barack Obama has started posting weekly video addresses on YouTube. As president, Obama will will deliver both the traditional weekly radio address and a weekly YouTube address. The “weekly fireside coffee talks” are a throwback to FDR, who delivered 30 evening radio addresses between 1933 and 1944 (Wikipedia: Fireside chats).
I think the weekly YouTube [...]


Google Reader in Plain English

If you don’t use Google Reader or don’t know what it is, then you should watch this video:


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