FUSE Labs: Social Gadgets. Projects Overview - Microsoft Research FUSE Labs. In the spotlight in July we have one new project, one project which is getting a nice upgrade, and one feature which is truly building a new community. Socl Connect over shared interests expressed through beautiful post collages that take seconds to create. Docs.com Discover, create, and share Microsoft Office documents with your Facebook friends. Kodu Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBOX via a simple visual programming language. Whooly Find out what your neighborhood community is up to, right now. Newspad Create meaningful community stories, collaboratively. At FUSE Labs we always have several projects in various stages.
Bing Twitter Maps Find out what topics are hottest on Twitter. Bing Social Keeping up with real-time information that is coming in from millions of users of Twitter is a tough task. From time to time a project either migrates to a product team, spins off into something else, or we have learned all we can from the project. Montage Social Gadgets Project Emporia Spindex. Many Eyes. David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization. Information Is Beautiful. Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds. Infographics from KISSmetrics. CrazyEgg. Survey Results. Bounce rate has become one of the most talked about web metrics, and a lot has been written about what this metrics means and how it should be interpreted and used.
I also wrote about Bounce Rate in my post called Bounce Rate Demystified. This post is about the follow-up question "Ok, I understand what bounce rate is and see the importance of it, now tell me, What is the typical Bounce Rate? " To answer this very question, I conducted a survey to understand what Bounce Rates to expect for various types of sites. The sites were classified under 6 categories, ecommerce, Product Information, Lead Generation, News/Media, Branding and Other. Other was a bucket for sites that did not fit other 5 categories, some of the sites included in “Other” where social networking, online gaming, travel search engine, tool/utility, bank and training, customer support.
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