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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Webform Podcast


The Webform Podcast was very interesting in a sense that it makes you think differently about new tools that search engines offer and what people really think about them. Luke is an ex-yahoo employee and throughout the podcast he was comparing his experience at yahoo with googles new "google instant". Other innovations that Luke mentioned were categorized in three areas-for desktop: 1- Rich interactions 2- Input can come from anywhere -basically people spend more time off your site then on your site even though they are connected but they are still not in your site therefore things like calendar, browser extensions etc should be incorporated in the design 3- Taking advantage of work people have done elsewhere; there are many built out platforms and we can have access to that information. Another thing that was mentioned was the whole topic of pictures and uploading them to a profile...Pictures and contact information make collaboration more rich....For the most part people use fake avatars as place holders and this has no personal effect. We all know that uploading a picture is a pain. If u can capture from another account u are done-from yahoo, gmail or any other site! By asking people to upload a photo they tend to log out and the rate of visiting the site drops by 40%Ping was another topic of discussion. Apple launched an i-tune social network- and the photo had to be approved from apple.I also agree that Ping is the worst product from apple.As Luke mentioned, the digital product with ping is poor because: 1-Ping profile ignorant of anything you did in i-tunes2-You have to put in your photo that needs to be approved by apple3-Your name needs to be same as the credit card on i-tunes and no nicknames allowed.Ping is a social network for the i-tunes store and not for itunes.

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