Autor: Tim Strehle

Jakob Nielsen – Does User Annoyance Matter?: „Sites offer drop-downs for state abbreviations under the theory that doing so prevents input errors. But that’s not true: menus are more error prone than typing because the mouse scroll wheel often makes users inadvertently change the state field’s content after they’ve moved their gaze elsewhere on the…

Jon Udell – Like a moth to the Freebase flame: „I created my first user-defined Freebase type. Because the system is so new, there are some quite fundamental things that (so far as I can see) haven’t yet been defined. I wanted to create entries for some of my personal projects, such as LibraryLookup and…

„Geni is the fast, free, fun way to create your family tree – and stay in touch.“

Tim O’Reilly – Freebase Will Prove Addictive: „But once you understand a bit about what metaweb is doing, you realize just how remarkable it is. Metaweb has slurped in the contents of several of the web’s freely accessible databases, including much of wikipedia, and song tracks from musicbrainz. It then turns its users loose on…

Jason Fried – Preview 3: Highrise welcome and workspace tabs: „The blank slate is the first screen someone sees when they log into a web-app for the first time. It’s what they see when there isn’t any data. It’s the critical first impression. We pay a lot of attention to the blank slate states. I…

„The Mindquarry Collaboration Server is a set of well proven professional collaboration tools made easy to be usable for everyone. […] Mindquarry supports teamwork. Mindquarry allows you to share files, exchange ideas and definitions, manage tasks for yourself and your team, and organize talk via e-mail, instant messenger or real-world meetings.“

„Scrybe™ is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today´s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way.“

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<span class=“comment“>Patrick Hunlock – </span><a href=“http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Bookmarklets_–_The_Evil_Lurking_In_Your_Browser“ title=“Bookmarklets — The Evil Lurking In Your Browser“>Bookmarklets – The Evil Lurking In Your Browser</a>: „Bookmarklets are incredibly useful tools. They can put your favorite sites at your fingertips as easy as dragging the icon in the location bar to your bookmark bar — you can also drag RSS…