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Microsoft Outlook Meets LinkedIn… Xobni Out In The Cold?

Microsoft has just launched a new feature to Office 2010 called Outlook Social Connector. Whenever someone sends an email to your Outlook, that person’s social networking profile will be displayed along with their message:

As the picture suggests, the first partner onboard is LinkedIn, but I expect other social nets to take notice. Despite [...]

The Dark Side of Usability

I. Like it.

Web companies fall prey to these dirty tricks of link placement far too often. The examples cited by Loveday in this piece are representative of the kind of bait-and-switch link placement one continues to find across the web.

The Dark Side Of Usability: When Business Goals & User Goals Collide.

NPR Stands For “News Podcasting Rocks”

Hey, newspapers– want to know how to increase user engagement and regain some of the considerable mojo you’ve lost over the past four years? Present your content in ways that new digital citizens want to consume it. Check out what NPR is up to:

National Public Radio is already a leader in podcasting. But [...]

Introducing Twitter– er, Facebook Lite

Facebook is beta testing a faster, leaner version of the site called Facebook Lite. The idea is to minimize the amount of clutter and interactive widgets in order to improve page load times.

MySpace rolled out MySpace Lite a few months ago, considered by many to make MySpace a lot more like Facebook, right [...]