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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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Keyword Spamming on Ebay
2009-01-06 22:53:00
Today, one of my Ebay items I was selling was due to end after having been on sale for seven days, and literally a couple of hours before it was due to end I received an email from Ebay stating that the item had been removed from sale as a result of ‘keyword spamming’. Apparently the ...
More About: Spamming , Web 2 , Keyword

Usability Testing on a Small Budget
2008-12-15 22:35:00
Nearly every business with a market-facing product can benefit from usability testing, ranging from software to industrial design companies. In general, any company whose products interface directly with consumers is a strong candidate for usability testing. Even the most well-thought-out products can have unforeseen design flaws, which can only be fixed after direct consumer testing of ...
More About: Testing , Usability , Small , Budget

YouTube Goes Widescreen
2008-12-02 23:23:00
I may be a bit late on this one, but about bloody time. YouTube has finally switched from 4:3 ratio to 16:9 so the masses of people wanted to upload widescreen video clips - which most video uses these days - can finally have their contributions viewed properly online. It’s strange because the likes of ...
More About: Youtube , Widescreen , Web 2

YouTube Embed Code is not W3C Compliant
2008-11-18 13:43:00
I was recently making one of my websites compliant when I became aware that the basic code that YouTube provides users is not compliant with the global XHTML standards - meaning that my site was not fully user-friendly while it was on there. It turns out that the W3C Validator isn’t keen on <embed> tags appearing ...
More About: Youtube , Web 2 , Code

A copyright owner has claimed content in one of your videos?
2008-11-08 16:15:00
I’m getting sick of YouTube. Two of my videos that have been on YouTube for about two years now and had a combined viewing figure of over 7,000 views have recently been blocked from playback due to copyright issues.These two videos were both very popular and had recieved a lot of comments with praise. It wouldn’t bother ...
More About: Videos , Content , Copyright , Owner

Google Chrome and the Unnecessary Reinvention of the Wheel
2008-10-29 15:22:00
In early September, the folks at Google quietly unveiled their Google Chrome web browser, intended to make yet another huge impact upon the market. The fact of the matter is people just aren?t catching on to the hype the folks at Google were obviously banking on. Certainly, Google has become a regularly used word, ultimately making ...
More About: Web 2 , Wheel

Yahoo Site Explorer - New Design
2008-10-04 15:55:00
For those of you involved with search engine optimization as I am, you may have noticed that Yahoo has updated it’s Site Explorer program, which has become used as a more popular tool for examining a website’s backlinks than Google’s service. It shows how many other websites are linking to you and there are also ...
More About: Design , Yahoo!

Advice for Nofollow Bloggers
2008-07-20 15:11:00
Like this blog, I’ve noticed a growing trend of bloggers removing the rel=”nofollow” attribute from their blogs which essentially encourages users to comment on posts without loosing what might be a valuable link to their own site. However, as some people including myself have found out, this drasticallyincreases the level of spam following each of ...
More About: Advice , Blogging , Bloggers , Nofollow

iPhone and Pervasive Computing
2008-07-17 19:20:00
With the recent release of the iPhone 3G I felt a post about the likely implications for the future of the web, regarding this device was relevant. Having been briefed about the iPhones capabilities, it seems apparent to me that this is the furthest point in pervasive computing that technology has taken us so far. ...
More About: Iphone , Computing

Apple in the Clouds
2008-07-13 16:29:00
Arriving fashionably late on the cloud computing scene, Apple ’s new MobileMe service appears to be the answer to integrated and unified information across a user’s Apple platforms. Rather than storing data individually on several platforms, it is kept on a single server or ‘cloud’ where it will keep all interconnected devices up to date with ...
More About: Web 2 , Clouds , Cloud Computing

Google XML Sitemap for Wordpress
2008-06-03 23:30:00
If you’re interested in optimizing your blog, you can make it much easier for search engines to crawl by adding a sitemap written on an XML page. The standard way of doing this involves creating a static XML page by taking a snapshot of your site at one time. However, the Google XML Sitemap s ...
More About: Wordpress , Web 2 , Blogging

Music 2.0
2008-05-25 20:01:00
When MP3 came out, it revolutionized the way we listen to music. No longer did it need to be played from a physical medium like a tape or a disk, now music could be played from a storage device and the software available allowed you to start the song from any point by just dragging ...
More About: Music , Web 2

ScribbleLive & Exclusive
2008-05-22 23:10:00
One of the drawbacks of the current blogging platform is the fact that the content displayed on the page is static - it won’t update until you tell it to, by revisiting the page or refreshing the browser. Static content is also a feature of discussion boards and forums which is why it can be ...
More About: Exclusive , Web 2 , Blogging

Feedreader and the future of RSS
2008-05-18 19:38:00
I came across Feedreader the other day and was very impressed by the service it offered. It is basically what I expect the immediate future of RSS to offer in terms of Web 2 .0/3.0 technologies. Instead of having the feed stored on a website, social bookmarking site or in your web browser, the content gets ...
More About: Future , Blogging , The Future

Google Maps - Liberty City
2008-05-17 13:18:00
With the recent release of Grand Theft Auto IV, what is looking being the best selling game of all time, it is only to be expected that Internet followers will be utilizing Web 2 .0 technologies to bring about a worldwide community of fans of the game. One of the most interesting I’ve found is the ...
More About: Google , Liberty , Google Maps , City

A ?nofollow-Free? Blog
2008-05-12 18:30:00
I happy to announce that this blog is now free of any nofollow comands that used to prevent Google and other search engines from influencing the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. This meant every comment prior to this was effected and potentially worthless as a link. This won’t encourage spam though as ...
More About: News , Blogging , Free , Blog , Nofollow

Italki - Learning languages with Web 2.0
2008-05-11 23:23:00
I wanted to let you know about a new version of italki.com which was just relaunched. italki.com is a language learning social network, and openeducation website. The premise is very good as users from all of the world collaborate together to help each other learn languages. It also utilizes the mashup methodology very well by ...
More About: Web 2 , Languages , Learning

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 ...
More About: Screen , Web 2 , Sign

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 ...
More About: News , Live , Mesh

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 ...
More About: News

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 ...
More About: Web Design , Design

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

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