Archive for the ‘Links’ Category

Creative & Technical Development

• A Good Reason To Make Things Easy For Customers by Customer Experience Matters
• Stephen Anderson On Seductive Interactions by Spool Cast
• What Makes Design Intuitive? by SVA Interaction Blog
• Bringing UCD To The Agile Environment by Boxes & Arrows
• Improve Conversions By Connecting With Your Audience by UX Booth
• You Shall Know Our Velocity by Pathfinder Development Blog
• The Right To Wireframe by Konigi

Promotion & Distribution

• Customer Acquisition & Viral Marketing Notes by Andrew Chen
• How To Monitor Your Brand On The Web For Free by HubSpot Marketing

Consumer Behaviour & Analytics

• Quantifying Viewers Lost During Pre-Roll Ads by Tube Mogul Research
• Leverage Custom Reports For Better Insights by Avinash Kaushik
• It’s Time To Talk About Net Promoter by Customer Experience Matters
• The 2 Billion-Eyed Intermedia by The Technium

Business & Monetisation

• Subscriptions Are The New Black by Master Of 500 Hats
• Acceture’s Take On The Benefits Of Open Source Software by Intel Software Network
• Factor “Social Influence” Into Total Customer Value by Jeremiah Owyang

Technology & Infrastructure

• Facebook Debuts Homegrown PHP Compiler by ReadWriteWeb
• The Future Of Web Content by TechCrunch
• I Want My iTV by TechCrunch IT
• H.264 Streaming Will Remain Free by NewTeeVee
• 3Crowd Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market by TechCrunch

Tips & Tutorials

• Bulletproof Backups For MySQL by Think Vitamin Blog
• Everything You Need To Know About Image Compression by Noupe

Creative & Technical Development

• The 3 Q’s For Great Expereince Design by Adaptive Path Blog
• Where Business Needs & User Needs Collide by User Interface Engineering
• SEO Through Accessibility by Cone Trees
• Why Design Thinking Won’t Save You by Harvard Business Review
• Designing Lead Generation Pages by Think Vitamin
• Designing A User-Focussed Web App by Brain Cray
• Design & UX Library by Nokia Forums
• Guidelines For Web Credibility by Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab
• Testing Expert Users by Jakob Nielsen
• Napkee Now Supports All Balsamiq Elements by Napkee Blog

Promotion & Distribution

• Social Media Framework & Guidelines by Craphammer
• Practical Social Media Measurement: Awareness, Attention, Reach by Altitude Branding
• Practical Social Media Measurement: Leads, Conversions, Sales by Altitude Branding
• Practical Social Media Measurement: Cost Savings by Altitude Branding

Consumer Behaviour & Analytics

• Context Is King: How Videos Are Found & Consumed Online by TechCrunch
• The Importance Of Active Community Management by Tom Humbarger
• Google Analytics, Event Tracking And jQuery by Brain Cray
• Top Topic Trackers by ReadWriteWeb

Business & Monetisation

• What’s A Startup? First Principles by Steve Blank

Technology & Infrastructure

• Visual Evidence Of EC2 Network Issues by CloudKick Blog
• Has EC2 Become Oversubscribed by Alan Williamson

Creative & Technical Development

• Listen Before You Spend A Billion Dollars (A Customer Experience Lesson) by Good Experience
• What Have We Forgotten About UX? by O’Reilly Media
• Embedding UX In The Product Development Lifecycle by UX Matters
• Unmoderated Usability Testing by UX Matters
• SXSW Interactive ‘09:Wireframes For The Wicked by Slideshare
• In Defense Of Lorem Ipsum by Karen McGrane
• It’s Time For Content Strategy by Scroll Magazine
• Case Study: Continuous Deployment by Lessons Learned

Promotion & Distribution

• Top Tools For Tracking Topics by ReadWriteWeb
• 5 Big Brand Case Studies Every Marketer Should Know by Hub Spot Blog
• Syndicate Or Die by Streamingmedia.com
• The 10 Stages Of Social Media Integration In Business by Brain Solis
• Social Media E-books You May Have Missed by Altitude Branding
• Wiring In Social Media Measurement by Altitude Branding

Consumer Behaviour & Analytics

• SEO, Metrics & Analytics; Questions & Answers by Avinash Kaushik

Business & Monetisation

• I’ve Seen The Promised Land by Steve Blank
• Akamai Gaining Market Share With Lower CDN Pricing by Dan Rayburn

Technology & Infrastructure

• Don’t Expect HTML5 To Overtake Flash Anytime Soon by NewTeeVee

Reviews, Tips & Tutorials

• Review: Market 7 by Streamingmedia.com

Creative & Technical Development

• The Bridge Between Cultures & Design by Johnny Holland Magazine
• Content Management Strategy, How To Develop The Other CMS by Design Crux
• Always Be Testing: 8 Services For Usability Feedback by ReadWriteWeb

Promotion & Distribution

• Declaration Of Independents: Just Sell It Yourself by NY Times

Business & Monetisation

• The State Of Online Video: Getting Paid For Content by TechCrunch
• 12 Things Holding Back Online Video Advertising by TechCrunch

Technology & Infrastructure

• Performance Analysis: Rackspace Cloud Servers vs. Amazon EC2 by The Bit Source
• Linodes In London by Linode

Tips & Tutorials

• Building Streaming Video Players With The Adobe Open Source Media Framework by Adobe Developer Connection
• 5 Essential Fair Use Resources For Online Video Makers by NewTeeVee

Creative & Technical Development

• Download: The Fable Of The User-Centred Designer by Dr David Travis of User Focus
• Anybody Can Do Usability by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• Testing Content Concepts by UX Matters
• Testing Your Own Designs Redux by UX Matters
• Usability Spotter: Twitter Login Issue by Cone Trees
• Usability & Design Best Practices by User Plus
• Issue 2, Volume 1 Of The Journal Of IA by Journal Of Information Architecture
• Free Sketching & Wireframing Kit by Janko At Warp Speed
• Why Traditional Fixed Bid Software Projects Usually Fail by Pathfinder Development Blog

Promotion & Distribution

• How Can Social Media Help Small Businesses by eMarketer
• Social Media Measurement Guide by eConsultancy
• Users Still Sharing By Email by eMarketer
• Great Free Media Planning Tools by ClickZ Experts

Consumer Behaviour & Analytics

• Moving Beyond The Top 10 by Avinash Kaushik
• Why Vanity Metrics Are Dangerous by Lessons Learned
• Your Web Analytics Checklist by ClickZ Experts

Business & Monetisation

• Managing Your Studio by Communication Arts
• Apple’s TV Subscription Service Doesn’t Add Up by VideoNuze
• How To Make Money With Online Video by Fierce Online Video

Technology & Infrastructure

• Digital Asset Management’s Future by Digital Media Buzz
• The Pro’s & Con’s Of Data Streaming by Digital Media Buzz

Tips & Tutorials

• How To Create Measurable Objectives by Altitude Branding
• Releasing Early Is Not Always Good – Heresy! by OnStartups
• Testing YouTube’s 1080p HD Offering by Streaming Media Global

Creative & Technical Development

• The Do’s & Don’ts Of Website Development by FatDUX Blog
• The Sinclair C5 Story by 90 Percent Of Everything
• Protokit: A Toolkit For Creating HTML Prototypes by Konigi
• Improve Web Readability With … Readability by Customer Experience Matters
• New Google Tool: Browser Size by Google Labs
• The Weaker Side Of Usability Guidelines by UX Booth

Promotion & Distribution

• Social Media Checklist For SMB’s by ClickZ Experts
• My Money Where My Mouth Is by Ideas On Ideas
• We Have No Secrets by Peter Broderick

Consumer Behaviour & Analytics

• Online Community Metrics You Need To Pay Attention To by Community Spark

Business & Monetisation

• Four Customer Currencies by Lessons Learned
• Don’t Write A Business Plan by A Smart Bear Blog
• The Business Of Blogging Is Ruining The Medium by Dan Rayburn
• Content Farms: Why Media, Blogs & Google Should Be Worried by ReadWriteWeb

Technology & Infrastructure

• Amazon’s CloudFront Now Offers Flash Streaming by Dan Rayburn
• Less Clumsy Code For The Cloud by MIT Technology Review

Tips & Tutorials

• Review: 26 Brand Reputation & Listening Tools by Dave Chaffey
• Using Google Apps: 5 Ways To Avoid Getting Hacked by ReadWriteWeb
• Real Time Social Media Search Tool by Convo Flow

Creative & Technical Development

• Needs, Resources, Location, Schedule & Budget = Scope by UX Matters
• How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong by Smashing Magazine
• User Research Skirmishes – Are You Guilty? by Ninety Percent Of Everything
• Usability Testing With Time Constraints by UX Matters
• Short Term Memory & Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• Optimization: Applying Moore’s Law To UX by UX Matters
• Writing User Friendly Content by UX Booth
• Community Channels (Tools) by Under The Hood
• 4 Tips To Hiring An Interactive Agency by Digital Media Buzz

Promotion & Distribution

• How Events Can Use Social Media by Chris Brogan
• Internal Social Media: Building A Plan by Altitude Branding

Consumer Behaviour & Analytics

• Measure, But Measure Wisely by The Community Roundtable
• Who Owns Web Analytics? by Avinash Kaushik

Business & Monetisation

• Minimum Desirable Product by Andrew Chen

Technology & Infrastructure

• Amazon Web Services Economics Center by Amazon
• Augmented Reality Is Overhyped by Advertising Age
• Online Video Delivery Still Nowhere Near TV Quality by Tubemogul Research
• Can SPOTi Take On Flash & Silverlight? by NewTeeVee

Tips & Tutorials

• When & How To Micromanage by Inc. Magazine
• Usability Testing Toolkit by Noupe

Creative & Technical Development

• Making Design Principles Stick by Adaptive Path
• UX Design Framework – Visual Design by User Pathways
• Less Is Better by UX Magazine
• Our Misguided Focus On Brand And User Experience by Johnny Holland Magazine
• Does Every Startup Need A Steve Jobs? by Andrew Chen
• Update On The Steve Jobs Post By An Apple Alum by Andrew Chen
• UX In A Box by UX Basis
• Gifts For UX Geeks by Nick Finck
• Beginners Guide To Interaction Design by UX Booth

Promotion & Distribution

• Creating Video For Search Engines by Search Insider
• 7 Simple Truths Of Social Media Marketing by Duct Tape Marketing
• Netvibes Premium Dashboards Help Marketers Track Brand Information by Digital Beat

Business & Monetisation

• Milestones To Startup Success by Sean Ellis
• Zappos Sells 6-30% More Merchandise When Accompanied By Video Demos by Dan Rayburn
• Venture Hacks Bookstore by Venture Hacks

Technology & Infrastructure

• From YouTube To Your PDA: The Future Of Online Video by Digital Media Buzz

Tips & Tutorials

• 10 Things To Consider When Writing For The Web by ThinkVitamin
• How I Got 6,000 RSS Subscribers In 12 Months by A Smart Bear Blog
• How To Hire A Good Designer & Developer by Neil Patel