Here’s the video of my Applications vs. Websites presentation at EdUI 2009. Enjoy!

The NYTimes has added a customization option to the homepage story “feed” box. It’s just one of a series of experimental new offerings that the Times has been rolling out. This one is surprising: I understood the “Most Popular” box to be one of the higher traffic driving elements on the site; odd [...]

The scarcity of available domain names has been vexing entrepreneurs / dreamers (like me) for quite some time now. Just the other day, I was trying to dream up a name for my latest killer startup idea, but the lack of a corresponding domain name kiboshed all my contenders. I wondered: why can’t [...]

At Catalyst, we’ve spent a lot of hours designing and conducting usability studies on ad-supported media sites. And based on our experience, the general rule is that users understand why ads are there and are somewhat willing to tolerate them as a necessary evil — assuming they see them at all, which they often [...]

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