Archive | September, 2005

29 September 2005 ~ Comments Off

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28 September 2005 ~ Comments Off

One word

Scoble: “Don [Dodge, former Director of Engineering at Altavista] tells me that back in the 90s Natural Language Processing was all the rage. They were hoping customers would put in more words to get better results. In reality, though, that didn’t happen. He said that 85% of all searches are one word.”

I suspect this is true of other sites as well; it seems consistent with stats I’ve seen. So how does one design to facilitate one-word searches? What are the implications for product naming and page titling? (Don’t wanna be too generic.)

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28 September 2005 ~ Comments Off

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  • Result of a “What is Web 2.0?” brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005
    (tags: web2)
  • The phrase The Long Tail (as a proper noun with capitalized letters) was first coined by Chris Anderson in a 2004 Wired Magazine article [1] to describe certain business and economic models such as Amazon.com or Netflix. The term long tail is also general
    (tags: trends)
  • Made this last night; next time must fry the shrimp longer, and with more sauce.
    (tags: recipes)
  • David Seah: “Hiring my own personal CEO would be great, but who has the time and money to do an executive search? I?ve got MP3s to sort! So I did the next best thing: I designed a printable form to motivate my business development activities.”
  • Philipp Lenssen: “blogging approaches I have here on Google Blogoscoped to help make sure, years from now, this blog makes a good archive”
    (tags: blog)

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25 September 2005 ~ Comments Off

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23 September 2005 ~ Comments Off

IA in 10 words or less?

Jason Fried challenges his readers to explain Information Architecture in 10 words or less. The results are amusing and illuminating.

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