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Web 2.0 Blog & Usability Blog

Web 2.0 Blog & Usability Blog
As a web developer and a graduate with a First class Honours Degree in Multimedia Computing, I have set up a blog where I'll post articles, links and opinions about aspects of Web 2.0 technologies, SEO and Internet usability.

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How NOT to do a sign-in screen
2008-05-05 18:53:00
Following a recent optimization campaign, I was met by this terrible signing in interface courtesy of web advertising site Clickey.com. I felt I should point out the problems with it as it is a usability problem that should not be occurring in today’s web environment. Firstly the terminology is way off. A task which involves ...
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Web 2.0 Expo - Live Mesh
2008-04-26 20:13:00
The Web 2 .0 Expo is over and some interesting announcements have been made. A lot of the keynote speeches which you can watch on Blip TV, were pretty much as expected with a primary focus on semantic technologies, mobile web and new website which provide more complete user experiences. Mozilla in particular ...
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Web 2.0 Expo 2008 - San Francisco
2008-04-22 23:53:00
The Web 2 .0 Expo in San Francisco kicked off today and it promises to bring to light many questions about the future of the Internet. With keynote speakers Matt Jones, Lane Becker, Matt Cutts and more, plus input from Dion Hinchcliffe and O’Reilly media, it should be packed with new information and ideas. I expect to ...
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Designing Usable Buttons
2008-04-17 16:44:00
As a web developer I use the Internet a lot as you might expect and I also have to fill out a lot of forms. Form building should be a University course on its own, but I’d like to relay some guidelines for button usability as a lot of people are making some basic mistakes. 1. ...
More About: Web Design , Designing , Buttons

Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0
2008-04-15 00:14:00
Rich Internet Applications , the future basis for how users will be presented with web applications are slowly but surely killing off the standard, limited and occasionally inaccessible HTML methodologies that have been dominating Internet development over the last 10 years. But what exactly do RIAs mean to Web 2 .0? In-Depth User Interaction RIAs offer users a much ...
More About: Rich , Websites

Gestalt Law of Similarity in Web Design
2008-04-10 00:31:00
Similarity in accessibility design is concerned with how a user perceives objects in a group that are alike, are related in context. For example, the diagram below would be perceived as alternating columns of circles and squares, rather than rows of alternating squares and circles: The same laws can be applied to web design. When creating ...
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Web 3.0 - The Semantic Era
2008-04-03 22:41:00
As Web 2 .0 applications continue to dominate user’s time and investments in 2008, I’ve been doing some reading about Web 3.0 and what it holds in store for the future of web development and it seems there will be four very important milestones reached. Portable Web Traditional websites are designed with the intention of being viewed by ...

RSS on Non-Blogs
2008-04-01 23:47:00
Although syndication is most notably recalled for its powerful impact on the success of blogging technologies during the web 2.0 boom, it’s ability to inform users of new content on otherwise stand-alone sites is what is giving supporting sites a significant advantage. A content management system is useless if users are unaware that new ...
More About: Web 2 , Blogging , Blogs , Websites

10 Blog Usability Guidelines
2008-03-29 10:32:00
As someone who has studied usability analysis, I’ve come up with 10 usability guideline which all new bloggers should abide by to help generate subscribers and interest in their site. Clean, simple design - With the hundreds of widgets and scripts now available, a lot of bloggers clutter up their sidebar with numerous bits of functionality, ...
More About: Web 2 , Blogging , Blog , Usability , Guidelines

Flickr Video
2008-03-18 19:20:00
It has been rumoured that image-sharing Internet giant Flickr will soon be launching a user video-uploading service that could rival YouTube’s monopoly on the current market. This type of diversification isn’t unknown for Web 2 .0 companies as we’ve often seen expansion into other market areas as part of their natural progression and the strengthening of ...
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Gestalt Law of Proximity in Web Design
2008-03-16 15:14:00
Including Gestalt laws of user psychology can go a long way towards ensuring that your website caters for your user’s usability needs as they navigate through it. Psychologists have determined that the brain acts in a certain way when perceiving objects on a computer screen, and knowing this can help ensure your site is more ...
More About: Web Design , Design , Web 2 , Proximity

This blog has moved!!
2008-03-13 00:19:00
This blog has moved. I'll now be posting new articles (on a much more regular basis) on my new domain of adammoss.co.uk.
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Download YouTube Videos
2008-02-12 10:12:00
http://vixy.net/If you've ever wanted to download a video from YouTube to watch anytime on your computer or phone, the Vixy.net's online FLV - AVI/MOV/MP4/3GP/Mp3 converter is a great solution. It also caters for most pieces of hardware.It converts YouTube videos to:AVI (for Windows), MOV (for Macs), MP4 (for iPods), 3GP (for Mobile Phones), MP3 (if you only want the audio)By Adam Moss
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High Keyword Density and Over-Optimization
2008-02-07 14:32:00
I've recently found a useful tool for assessing how well your website has been optimized for keywords. You simply enter your URL into the density checker where it counts how many words you have on a page, and presents the most popular ones in a tag cloud. Give it a try:Keyword Density CheckerHow to avoid over-optimization is contained in a few simple guideline, which helps you analyze the results from your check. It generally says that a percentage score of between 3% and 7% is recommended. Any higher percentage than this may be regarded as keyword stuffing, something which Google will penalize by reducing your search engine rankings.By Adam Moss
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What is FeedBurner?
2008-02-04 23:04:00
A lot of people want to know what's the point in Feedburner ? Why use Feedburner? And what does Feedburner do? I attempted to find out...Feedburner is a feed management system that was launched in 2004 and has now recently been acquired by Internet colossal Google. I?ve been trying to figure out what the point in Feedburner is for a while now and this is what I?ve come up with. Basically if you own any type of RSS feed whether it?s from a weblog or a Podcast or otherwise, Feedburner is a service that consolidates that feed so that a much wider variety of feed readers are capable of receiving it. The free service, which I have tested also comes with a control panel, which allows you to monitor how many people have subscribed to your feed and allows you to further optimise and publicise your feed.PingShot, FeedFlare & BuzzBoostOne useful item I did notice is the PingShot feature, which automatically notifies Web 2.0 giants such as Technorati, Yahoo! and Bloglines when you?ve adde...

New direction for this blog...
2008-02-02 19:59:00
Following a lack of diversity in posts, most of which were based on Internet articles, I've decided to rename this blog and focus it on Internet usability and it will have an emphasis on my specialist area of Web 2.0 technologies. My knowledge of science and technology is fairly limited so my articles should be more focused from now on.To celebrate, here's an awesome Web 2.0 isometric city:Adam Moss
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Blogging as a Search Engine Marketing Strategy
2008-01-15 14:16:00
Web 2.0 has had many success stories as the integration between web content and user interaction becomes evermore seamless. However, the most popular of this new series of web technologies is blogging ? a means whereby users can post articles and opinions on any topic of their choosing on their own web space. The result of this is an online community where posters and readers can post comments, and more importantly, hyperlinks. As a SEO strategy, this can be a very effective method of communicating not only the existence, but the significance of your website in the industry, especially if corresponding blog posts speak favourably of your site. The major benefit is that blogs can reach very wide audiences if implemented and promoted correctly. Imagine a situation where everytime you had an idea to share, 5,000 people who trust your opinions see it in your blog. The majority of those 5,000 people also write blogs in your field or related fields. Some of those bloggers may frequently m...
More About: Marketing , Marketing Strategy , Strategy , Blogging , Search Engine Marketing

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Vs Usability
2008-01-09 23:28:00
This article is an investigation into whether search engine optimisation and usability are compatible, enabling a user to find a website in a search engine, and then find what they?re looking for once they?ve found it.Usability and search engine optimisation are both of fundamental importance when developing websites on for the Internet. SEO should be given precedence in the design of a website to improve the chances of users actually finding the site in the first place. Likewise, usability should be of high priority so that users aren?t put off using the site within seconds of finding it.When optimising a website by maximizing keywords, it is essential not to disrupt the quality of content on the page being optimised. There is no point in spending time and money on directing traffic to your site if the user will back straight out. If you're at all interested in repeat traffic, usability has to come first. (Peter V, 352media.com: 2007) The result of poor quality text in a keyword-o...
More About: Search Engine Optimization , Search , Search Engine , Optimization

Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change Report
2008-01-07 21:54:00
It's a pretty comprehensive and damning assessment about the effects and consequences of the current warming of the earth's climate. If you're in doubt over the validity of scientific claims on climate change, have a read of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report 2007, assembled by the world's leading scientists and available for everyone to see.Click here: http://tinyurl.com/2b6q2m
More About: Climate Change , Climate , Change , Panel

The Four Horsemen
2007-12-22 19:16:00
Available now to watch online is a two hour discussion between the four most intellectual minds in the religion-atheism debate, dubbed as 'The Four Horsemen '. It's relaxed, honest and very fascinating to watch, and also shows them reasoning that there are weaknesses in their side of the arguement.Watch The Four Horsemen on Google Video:Hour 1Hour 2

Shelf Life 3
2007-09-18 00:12:00
Although no plot line has been created yet, I have started to come up with ideas for the last installment of the Shelf Life trilogy and intend to begin filming within the next couple of months. The final film will be longer and hopefully funnier than the previous installments.Watch: Shelf Life 1 & Shelf Life 2

Magik Drinks Logo
2007-07-23 13:41:00
Here is the logo I created for a new company called Magik Drinks Ltd.
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Ring of Fire - Text Animation
2007-06-07 15:58:00
I have finally managed to create a WMV file for my Flash video of Ring of Fire ... it's been a long time in the making. I wouldn't say it's seamless, but it's good enough.
More About: Animation , Text , Ring of Fire

Shelf Life 2
2007-06-07 12:51:00
I finally got around to making the second part of what is going to be a trilogy of Shelf Life escapades. For some reason YouTube cut two seconds off the end of the film causing it to end more abruptly than I anticipated.

Web Who?
2007-06-06 13:36:00
I was browsing Web 2.0 news on May 8th when I found out about a recent study by Princeton University, which discovered that only 8% of US adults are users of Web 2.0 technologies despite 73% of them have Internet connections. Why is there a disinterest in Web 2.0 among adults? The survey didn?t include teenagers, though I?m sure if it did we?d be looking at a higher percentage as it does seem to be that generation that dominates discussion boards and data sharing sites such as YouTube. On CRN Australia it was reported that ?the report doesn't offer much to console sellers of PCs, mobile phones, iPods, and the like about their future prospects except to say the young represent a more receptive set of potential customers. ?Two of the four tech-oriented groups have a higher-than average percentage of members who are full- or part-time students,? the report says.? My theory is that it is simply down to time and place. Students and teenagers have more time in their lives for web Sur...

Enterprise Web 2.0
2007-06-06 01:02:00
It took me a while to find significant research to debate this topic, which I?ve wanted to examine for a while. What are the business implications of Web 2.0? Is there real business value in the concept of having users become contributors and co-creators of a company?s online environment? I discovered an article on business technology website http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/index. php?p=14 by Dion Hinchcliffe, which argues the case for implementing Web 2.0 technologies into business operations with a host of success stories. He compiled this diagram, displaying what conditions create a successful utilisation of Web 2.0 technologies: It?s no secret that Google, eBay and Amazon are tremendously thriving businesses, all of which began as Web 2.0 technologies in the Web 1.0 era. ?The argument is they did this by leveraging user contributions, offering open Web services for others to integrate with, building hard to recreate data sources, etc.? Amazon and eBay were more than just onli...
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Desk-toppled
2007-06-05 21:34:00
Microsoft has dominated the computer market comfortably for the last two decades with their unrivalled operating system and office software. Microsoft didn?t see Web 2.0 coming and could ultimately pay the price in the future as the desktop?s usage is reduced in favour of more accessible, cheaper and newer Web 2.0 alternatives. I was reading a short article in the latest edition of Wired magazine and it inspired me to bring up this debate, which chiefly hypothesises that ?service software? available online will eventually override the need for owning expensive software in a world where it is possible to connect to the Internet from any computer, in or out of the office. Let?s take Internet giant Google for example. It has recently developed a collection of online applications including a suite of personal productivity tools that rival Microsoft Office. It also provides users with 10GB of data storage ? surely no less than most businessmen require to store Office data on their laptop...
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Introduction
2007-06-05 21:04:00
I've been meaning to launch this blog for a long time and have only just gotten around to doing it. I had an old blog on Wordpress on one of my univeristy modules but I expect it to be removed soon now that the module (and course) is over. As a student I want to academically contribute by posting my thoughts and ideas in the form of blog posts on current issues and debates in the scientific and technological community.I'll begin by posting some of my recent essays, which were part of my university studies.Adam Moss
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