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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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
If you don’t use Google Reader or don’t know what it is, then you should watch this video: This video is by the people at Common Craft, who are experts at explaining technology. One of their best and most popular videos is Twitter in Plain English. I actually think that video helped increase Twitter usage!
Facebook is notorious for launching features seemingly without any user research. In 2006, Facebook launched the “News Feed”, which led to an unprecedented backlash in social networking. Ironically, two years later it seems that all Facebook users have gotten acclimated to the News Feed and now enjoy the feature. (It was actually the lack of [...]
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