p. A very interesting research released by Poynter Institute…using eye-tracking techniques, the study attempts to answer the enternal questions: Is homepage layout effective? … What effect do blurbs on the homepage have compared to headlines? … When is multimedia appropriate? … Are ads placed where they will be seen by the audience? p. From a direct revenue perspective, you might…
Jeremy Zawodny on Flickr
“Is it just me, or is Flickr (currently in beta) one of the best examples of next generation web services?”
MP3 sound bites
In the inaugural column of this series on hypermedia, I mentioned an MP3 clipping service I wrote to enable quotation of sound bites. Before I explain how it works, let’s review why it exists. Audio content — and of particular interest to me, spoken-word audio content — is flourishing. In the tech world, Doug Kaye’s ITConversations web site is a…
TiVo and Netflix team up to deliver movies to net-connected TiVos
Xeni Jardin: Newsweek breaks the story that TiVo and Netflix have joined forces to offer downloaded movies direct to net-connected TiVos (“Damn,” says Fred von Lohmann as he points us to this news — “And I’m stuck with my modem-bound gen.1 TiVo!”) Link (via PVR blog)
Jeffery Veen: Newspapers don’t have to suck
Newspapers Don’t Have To Suck The San Francisco Examiner has redesigned its Web site and has done something no other newspaper has been able to accomplish: They’ve launched an attractive, readable, standards-compliant design. The front page is almost blog-like in it’s simplicity and usability. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. And even the archives are great — browse month-by-month with…
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Tableau: Google for Structured Data?
John Battelle’s Searchblog: Tableau: Google for Structured Data? Tableau: Google for Structured Data? Gary points me to this Stanford-originated startup, I’m ashamed to say this is the first I’ve heard of it: Tableau. The company was slashdotted about four hours ago and the site appears to be down. Ah, fame. From the Seattle PI: bq.. Started as a government research…
Interactive cameras at the RNC
Looks like an interesting experiment: We’re at NYU assembling our interactive cameras and wearable computers for tonights Konscious Convention broadcast. We’ll have four crews in the field, one in Madison Square Garden. Also, three of us from Unmediated will be at Manhattan Neighborhood Networks monitoring the four cameras in the field, and chatting with participants that want to ask convention…
iPodder for Windows!
Gotta love weblogs. I left a sticky note for myself last night to try and figure out how to modify some of the iPodders scripts I’ve seen to grab enclosures from my feeds and dump them into my iTunes library. I don’t have an iPod, but listen to interviews etc with my laptop while on the train. Pieter Overbeeke has…
Jeremy Zawodny: Feed Search vs. Web Search
The current state of “feed search” is messy at best. Joseph Scott does a good job of presenting his impressions on the major feed search engines (where “feed” means RSS/Atom): Say I wanted to track what people are saying about PostgreSQL. This can’t really be done with the traditional search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc) because they base their results on…
Joi the edge case: Conference call surfing
I have my PowerBook on my insTand next to my bed with a clock screen saver alarm clock. Usually, I wake up before my alarm goes off and wake up the computer instead. As soon as my status on my IM clients goes from idle to available, I get a little flurry of requests for contact. “Did you see my…