June 28, 2006
While perusing the in-flight magazine on a recent Ryanair flight, I came across the technology section, which usually has a mixture of cool, daft and overpriced gadgets.
One item that caught my eye was a flash drive that would physically get bigger the more data was on it!
June 23, 2006
I see that Shane Diffily has published two excellent articles on web site management. It was great to see that Shane has given the subject of web site management some serious thought, because dysfunctional or non-existent web site management is the root cause of so many of the problems that organisations face online. But the management team Shane proposes seems too high level. Web sites don’t need a representative democracy, they need cooperation from the workers at the coal face.
June 22, 2006
I just came across this nifty little tool that web analytics guru Eric Peterson created: the web analytics vendor discovery tool. It’s simple — you submit a URL, and it returns the web analytics application the site uses.
June 10, 2006
One of the most powerful effects of user-tests is that when you actually watch people use websites, the patterns you notice, even if widely acknowledged in the industry, suddenly become much more meaningful and real.
June 6, 2006
In April and May of this year we performed a benchmarking exercise, measuring the user experience of 20 Irish, UK and US car insurance websites. Our report, published later this month, contains scores of each of 20 sites, measuring how easy they are to use. It shows where the sites fail their visitors and where they can learn from the best practices of other sites.
June 2, 2006
iQ Content sponsored this year’s IIA Internet Congress on May 25th in Killiney Castle, Dublin. The sell-out event centred around ‘Monetising the Internet’ and featured key note presentations from eBay, MSN, Yahoo!, Google, Bebo and Kennys.ie.