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Learn from your customers for usable Web apps

Learn from your customers for usable Web apps
Imagine the following scenario: You go shopping to buy a loaf of bread. The shops look gorgeous, decked out in vivid colors and stunning artwork. Trouble is, you can't always tell from the window displays what sort of products are on sale inside. Eventually, you find a shop that looks promising and ignore advice that this store's expertise is with a gadget you don't own. You find the front door and wander in. Now you enter a maze of aisles containing products organized in an apparently random manner. Before paying, you attempt to ascertain that you can use your credit card safely, but the inscrutable small print has more to say about your legal obligations than reassurance about your security. This is a Nightmare on Web Street! Why does this happen? OK, it's a caricature. Online shoppers are less interested in a groovy multimedia experience than in finding, understanding, and buying products quickly and easily. The customer's perspective "This is too stupid for words."" Back to top a. a. Related:  Users for ideas...

Identité(s) Numérique(s) Mobile(s) [EnsadLab] Pearltrees: What problem does Pearltrees solve 50 really useful iPad 2 tips and tricks An absolute gem of an article by John Brandon and Graham Barlow from MacLife on 30th March over at TechRadar. This is going to become my iPad manual from here on in. Customised iPads for all iPad 2 tips and original iPad tips - get 'em here! iPad 2 review It's also fully capable of running the latest version of Apple's iOS operating system and great apps like iMovie and GarageBand. 1. iOS now supports folders. 2. Double-clicking the Home button shows you all the apps that are running on your iPad in a bar along the bottom of the screen. 3. The internet got mightily upset when Orientation Lock was replaced with Mute on the iPad during the last iOS update. 4. If you're carrying around sensitive data, you can now enable a feature that'll erase all the data on the device if someone inputs the incorrect passcode 10 times. 5. First, turn on Home Sharing in iTunes (Advanced menu) and on your iPad (Settings > iPod and enter your Apple ID). 6. Have you ever played Tap Tap Revenge on the iPhone?

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The Best iPhone Apps Apple’s iPhone is the most popular smartphone in the world, and we want you to get the most out of yours. From dating apps to QR scanners, your phone is capable of nearly anything these days, and some apps just rise above the rest. We’ve recently cut our list of the best iPhone apps in half, bringing you the true cream of the crop: 100 apps, sorted by category, that will make your life simpler, easier, and more enjoyable. Related: Thirty of the juiciest portable battery chargers money can buy iOS essentials Google Want to find nearby restaurants or track a package using your voice? iTunes Google Chrome Google Chrome is an upgrade from the default browser, Safari. iTunes Facebook Facebook is the social network. iTunes YouTube YouTube used to come with your phone, but with iOS 6, Apple removed it. iTunes Wikipedia Mobile iTunes Instagram

My Critique (s243a) of Pearltree 2.0 No tapetão « Link O alvo principal é o Google, na mira de Apple e Microsoft. A empresa que criou o Android acusa a guerra das patentes de travar a inovação Por Filipe Serrano Guerra das patentes – clique na imagem para ampliá-la. Desde que o Google resolveu se aventurar em mais uma área que não era até então a dele, as empresas que hoje disputam as lucrativas vendas de smartphones travam uma Guerra Fria entre si, com acirradas disputas judiciais ou acordos bilionários. A disputa se resume aos três grandes da tecnologia – Google, Apple e Microsoft – direta ou indiretamente e, há pouco menos de um ano, passou a acontecer em tribunais e agências de regulação nos EUA. De um lado, o Google busca um mercado novo, aliado a parceiros como Samsung e Motorola. A briga chegou a tal ponto que hoje, quando você compra um celular Android, parte do dinheiro pode ir para os concorrentes. A ação da Apple é ainda mais agressiva. O Google perdeu a chance de se proteger contra processos diretos ou indiretos. Não deu certo.

My apologies dear fellow pearltree'ers but i'am Top Trends of 2012: The Continuing Rapid Growth of Mobile In our half-yearly review of the top Internet trends of 2012, there's been a common theme: mobile is the main driver for all of them. The Visual Web (Instagram, Pinterest and similar image-focused apps), the Consumer Cloud (Evernote, Dropbox, iCloud and others), social video apps (Socialcam and Viddy) and video on tablets (BuzzFeed, Flipboard and others). Each of those trends are popular in 2012 because of smartphones and/or tablets. According to StatCounter global statistics, mobile traffic jumped from about 4% of all Web traffic at the end of 2010 to over 10.5% now. It's difficult to choose just a few examples of how mobile has rapidly grown in 2012, but we can clearly see the influence of mobile this year in three of the biggest Internet companies. Google's Mobile Content Play What used to be known as the Android Market was re-branded at the end of June to Google Play. Almost every announcement at the Google I/O keynote [...] tied directly to Google Play.

wow! now we are talking! this hits the nail (version 2 beta test ) "square-blocked" dead on the head. great post. thanks. by ebbead Jun 1

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