The Yammer Blog - Archive. Yammer has added new features we are excited to share with you: Google Apps Sign-UpPopular Tags List‘More’ Link On Messages: Bookmark, Email, Delete Ability to reply to replies in threaded mode Direct Messages feed Threaded mode toggle Collapsed Group UI Google Apps Sign-Up This eliminates the need to confirm your Google Apps based email address. New users just go through the normal sign-up flow but the email verification process is taken care of, saving you time and hassle.
Popular Tags List The most popular tags in your network will be displayed in a list on the right of your feed. ‘More’ Link On Messages: Bookmark, Email, Delete A ‘More’ link on messages allows you to quickly add an update to your ‘Bookmarked’ feed, receive the update as an email, or delete the message. Ability to reply to replies in threaded mode You can now reply to other users within the same thread. Direct Messages feed A dedicated DM feed makes it easy to send and peruse Direct Messages. Threaded mode toggle. Study: Microbloggers are really boring | Webware. A study from the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology has found that most microbloggers are updating their status with "mundane" messages.
Curiously, the Finnish institute chose to examine the also-ran microblogging platform Jaiku. In sifting through 400,000 messages on Jaiku, HIIT found that the most common messages users send out include the words "working," "home," "work," "lunch," and "sleeping. " "Microblogging works because of the total control users have over their postings, but it is a hobby that seems to require a significant investment of time which many cannot afford," the Institute said in a statement. Jaiku is now a shadow of its former self, some two years after it was acquired by Google. According to the site's About page, it's "maintained by volunteer Google engineers on their spare time," after the Web giant decided at the start of the year that a half-dozen products including Jaiku , Dodgeball, and Google Video weren't contributing to its brand or bottom line.
Going in circles? A way out. We have all heard stories about people who are lost in the woods repeatedly finding themselves back at the same tree they started from. Apparently, this isn't just a popular myth. According to an article published online by on August 20, researchers have found that we tend to walk in circles when we are in unfamiliar territory and have no way to guide ourselves. I think that the same is true for our inner worlds.
When there are characteristics or behaviors that we would like to change, our initial attempts often send us in circles-leaving us no different than when we started. Of course, sometimes people need help; they need professionals to help them map their course and support them as they venture forth. As it turns out, this advice is supported by research. I have to say that I love how the research on getting lost parallels so nicely with what happens in our inner worlds. Dr. 30 Bad Practices of Web Designers. Every once in a while you will come across a page that just doesn’t seem ‘right’. There are three elements of a website that can be harmed by bad practice: The website lacks something in its design.The content is written badly.The search engines don’t like something about the site. Considering the three points above, this article will explains the do’s and dont’s of certain design habits. 1.
Using ancient markup Websites link directly to technology, and technology is about keeping updated. Bad: Using deprecated markupChoosing not to use a doctypeUsing table based layoutsSelf-closing tags that shouldn’t be self-closed Good: Using the latest and greatest markup that is fully-supportedAlways using DoctypesUsing <div> tags for positioningUsing a CSS StylesheetValidating your markup with the W3C Validator 2. When the internet started, people were so amazed that they were able to publish stuff publicly that they didn’t think about readability and presentation. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Bad description: 8. 9. ChangeOrder: The Enemy of Great Design. Good design is the enemy of great design. This isn't to say that good design gets in the way of great design, since the latter is only possible when surrounded by the former. But our hardest struggles as designers emerge when we confront what could be great, rather than what is thoroughly good. We often don't know what's great until someone else points it out for us.
We lack the critical distance to understand the difference in quality, especially when we drown in the minutia of minor color variations and typeface choices. We choose to lose ourselves in a flow experience, rather than opting for key moments in our work where we gauge our level of effort versus the result. Great design requires great waste. We lack a strong sense of design's history, which keeps us from recognizing the circadian rhythms of our daily output. Great design work frequently seeks to transcend the boundaries of design itself. Great design becomes like water over time. Great design is identified in hindsight. Posters for People Who Love Data + Design | FlowingData.
Data graphics that aren't interactive are better in print, no doubt about it. I realized this a few years ago while interning for a popular graphics department. It was one thing to see my graphics online, but it was always so much cooler to see them in the paper. Online stuff is great, but it's fleeting. You glance, scan, and browse when you're online. Plus, paper provides more space. Enter FlowingPrints. Data + Design Posters Simply put, FlowingPrints is a project to get data in print. I mentioned the project a while ago, and I'm happy to say that the first series will be available in less than a week. I collaborated with two designers – Atley G. Each poster gives you a different point of view, and each tells a different story.
The Authors Atley is a graphic designer at GOOD and co-curates But Does it Float; Robert is a designer and illustrator who has done work for The New York Times, Time Inc., and Fast Company Magazine; and me, well, you already know what I do. More soon... 5 signs youve got the wrong SMM consultant | Article | Homepage. Fligtar.com ChromeExtensions.org: sincerely flattering. As a kid, I was pretty good at the comics where two pictures were placed side-by-side and you were tasked with figuring out the slight differences between them.
I came across ChromeExtensions.org today, a website for Google Chrome browser extensions that isn’t officially connected with Google. I noticed quite a few similarities between this site and a site I’ve worked on for a few years, addons.mozilla.org. I really do take it as a compliment that they liked our site enough to copy so much of it, but in the interest of fun, I’ll try to identify as many coincidences as I can. Homepage Promo Box Perhaps the most obvious similarity is the promotion box at the top of the page with 3 extensions in each panel that rotates between tabs at the bottom. On AMO, this box is powered by featured collections of add-ons, but ChromeExtensions.org uses normal categories. Category Names Many of their categories are lifted right from AMO, like “Alerts & Updates” and “Social & Communication”.
Add-on Metadata. Hitwise Intelligence - Sandra Hanchard - Asia Pacific. Facebook: The Most Searched for Term on the Web? | Leveraging Id. Three Future-Looking Videos Of Augmented Reality For Business. Augmented Reality is certainly in it’s infancy, and we know that at best, is experimental. I’m new to this space but am watching, and learning from Robert Rice and Dave Elchoness to see how it develops. While a few years out, see the proposed Hype Cycle, let’s spend time thinking about what the future could hold.
I’m in intake mode. Over the last few weeks, I’ve watched as many augmented reality youtube clips as possible, reading blog posts (as there are no real articles yet from mainstream) and talking to smart folks. I found a few videos that are void of the “Shiny object” syndrome and focus on how this could improve people’s lives –or fulfill a meaningful business need, here’s three: Above Video: Supplemental Information Added On Location. Realtà Aumentata – Augmented Reality from soryn on Vimeo. Above Video: Social Data and Contact Info Overlayed in Business Setting. Early days –but interesting to watch.
10 Revealing Infographics about the Web. The use of graphics as a tool for educating viewers is a great approach to sharing information. It’s an effective way of composing otherwise boring information and data into an easy-to-consume and fascinating way. In this article, you’ll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or two about the web by looking at these awesome artworks! Click on the image to go to the larger version of each graphic. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Related Content About the Author Jacob Gube is the Founder and Chief Editor of Six Revisions. New Media Demands a New Kind of Media Company. The media like nothing more than to cover the media.
For that reason, there has been near-endless coverage of the struggles of “old media” companies trying to succeed online. Pundits debate the possible return of “pay walls” to the web, the prospects for “freemium” products that coax some subscription revenue from a larger pool of non-paying users, and the like. All of these are appropriate and necessary discussions of media products and business models. But it’s time to start talking more about the media companies themselves — not what products they should offer or how much they should charge, but how they should be organized and managed.
The barriers to entry in media have fallen. The evidence of disruption in the U.S. media business is hard to miss. Economies of Scope Modern media conglomerates — News Corp., Disney, Time Warner, and the like — succeed when they have economies of scope. But online, the story has been different. Why doesn’t the traditional model work online? Push And It Will Be Rejected | The Relationship Economy...... A lot has been published about push vs. pull marketing.
Everyone knows the difference between the two methods and yet it seems that the market doesn’t comprehend the difference in “results between the two. While social technologies are relative to “conversational pull” the advertising and marketing industry continues to push. Every wonder why people still push? It Is A Numbers Game Pushing mass media is a game of numbers. Systemic cost are focused on total cost of waste rather than the cost of short term results. Relationships take time to build. The Result of Push When you push yourself onto people the likely result is a rejection. The age of push marketing is coming to an end. You Ask Why? The reason for the shift is that people learn from other people. However it seems that institutional thinking and past experiences by advertisers and brands think differently and rely on the old game of numbers to catch a few. What say you? Optimizing Flash Based Websites. By rohit on September 20th, 2009 While flash provides a great user interface and intuitive usability, and also is effective in sales promotion, its construct is still a problem for SEO purpose.
People are visually stimulated, and it is often the flashy sites that attract the customer to actually buy the product. Trivia is – if it looks great, then it must be great. A pure Flash site is a major disadvantage for SEO because search engines see the entire website as a single page. This means it is difficult to optimize different pages for different target and different keywords. And you also will not gain the inherent SEO advantage that having multiple pages brings to a website: every unique web page has, by default, some degree of search.
Optimizing Flash based websitesBreak apart the site, use Flash movies, not whole site Crawler based search engines still prefer html versus images, flash, and other scripts. Focus on off-page factors. f search engine ranking algorithms today. Employ metadata. Seth's Blog: Things to ask before you redo your website. I don't do any consulting, but that doesn't stop people from asking me questions. The most common question people ask me when they want a new website is, "If you were in charge of this, who are the 2 or 3 people you’d want to be sure to talk to – to help think through the issues, help us figure out who should do the work, etc.? " The second most common question people ask me, "In addition to Apple’s site, are there 2 or 3 that you think are really appealing and work well for their business? " I think these are perhaps the tenth and eleventh questions you should ask, not the first two.
Here's my list of difficult and important questions you have to answer before you spend a nickel: What is the goal of the site? RSS&#8217;d to make your dream come true? flowing motion. RSS’d? If you aren’t, it probably won’t! As a work psychologist, that was a subterranean text that I was hearing at the Oxford Social Media Convention on Friday. Matthew Hindman, for example, a political scientist from Arizona, tracks how the internet is used in politics in the US. While we are raving about my.barackobama.com, Matthew is noting details that pass us by.
For example, Obama won Ohio through marginal gains in Republican states which, in turn, were made on the back of careful statistical analysis of voting patterns. [If anyone knows how to efficiently read 200 page pdf files on a screen, please doooooo tell me the secret] Internet politics is not for the faint-hearted What I gathered of the overall message is this. The internet is a powerful tool in the hands of people who understand statistics, who understand politics, and who are motivated to get out there and do the work.
What can political scientists (who watch the way we use the internet) teach those of us in business? Your Google docs: Soon in search results? | Webware. Users of Google Docs and Spreadsheets accustomed to publicly publishing their documents might want to rethink exactly how publicly available they want to them to be. Google on Thursday wrote in a blog post that "in about two weeks, we will be launching a change for published docs. The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and other search engines...This is a very exciting change, as your published docs linked to from public Web sites will reach a much wider audience of people.
" Some users of the search giant's suite of online productivity applications expressed concerns about the plan, suggesting better labeling of potentially crawlable documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. For example, how would you know definitively if a publicly crawled Web page has linked to your published document? Seth's Blog: The priority list. Facebook Beacon has poked its last | The Social. How Filter Failure Contributes To Business Failur. Market Research 3.0 Is Here: Attitudes Meet Algorithms in Senti.
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