Month: March 2006

HFI’s December newsletter recaps the key findings outlined in 2005’s Putting Research into Practice seminar. eg: * People who are taught about breadcrumbs tend to […]

Some time in 2005 the one-billionth user went online. Statistically, we’re likely talking about a 24-year-old woman in Shanghai. 36% of Internet users are now […]

“At one level it’s clear that the dam has broken,” said Paul Otellini, chief executive of Intel. “There’s an inevitable move to use the Internet […]

Written by a Professor of Journalism in Argentina (translated from Spanish): “Basically, the story that is published on the Internet today is still being produced […]

“Every link you put on a webpage in some way detracts attention from every other link. A “landing page” is typically a page someone lands […]

Private Philanthropy Across the World 1995-2002 – a study by John Hopkins University (link below is direct to the pdf download 10KB). Are we missing […]

Hostway’s national Pet Peeve survey assembled a list of 15 irritating website practices: 1. Pop-up ads 2. Requiring the installation of extra software to view […]

This one’s about being more open to questions & ideas we’d perhaps too easily dismiss (Drayton: guilty as charged) “Cluelessness is underrated. It’s the newbie […]

From Google’s pagerank algorithm to the APIs of eBay and Amazon to the movie ratings on Yahoo, these companies know how to harness the collective […]

Television has an inspiring past, ripe with innovation and popular culture influence. Since its coming of age mid-20th century, generations of TV viewers happily embraced […]