If you’re tired of asking your family and friends to let you know what they think about your latest design and you don’t have time or money for formal usability testing, you should try out Feedback Army. The new service uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to get 10 random peoples response [...]

Here’s a hilarious promo for the Austin American Statesman newspaper breaking news as they rip TV for being slow about breaking news.

Here’s a new SEO tool to make sure you keep your page rank at the top of your mind. Exactfactor compares two sites against each other on Google, Yahoo and Live search on whatever key words you request. If you register for an account, Exactfactor will email you a weekly [...]

The NY Times reports that the facebook connect service is finally going to start coming online this week as a number of prominent sites start to include it in their web of services. In the past the decision for site owners was always whether to build your own social network [...]

John Naughton from the Guardian looks at which health care sites you can trust as a follow-up to Microsoft’s cyberchondria study. Most of the data he quotes is old, but the general premise comes down to the fact that you have to be very careful how much trust you put [...]

I’ve had the privilege of serving on a couple of jurors– both of which convinced me that I would probably be better off with a bench trial rather than a juror of my peers. The Sun newspaper reports another strike against the jury system as a british juror asked her [...]

Reuters reports that Facebook is considering buying twitter if the details can be agreed upon. Facebook already offers the “update– tell me what you’re doing” service that twitter has, but twitter has focused on status and mobile where facebook builds a whole social network.  In fact my twitter account automatically [...]

TIVO has introduced their mobile site for controlling your TIVO. It’s at m.tivo.com.  Let’s hope it works better than the web based service for programming your TIVO or the TIVO season pass system. Don’t get me wrong, we love our TIVOs, but I think the usability of the menu to [...]

Seth Godin has a great post on his blog about the NY Times struggle to remain profitable (and if the Times is struggling so is everyone else) and some advice about where they missed the boat. He concludes with this point that is really relevant for any business to ask [...]

Even though I am rarely posting on this blog now, I have switched it over to a WordPress blog. WordPress is a great blogging platform and is a great choice for a CMS for smaller sites. I’ve used it on several sites over the last couple of of years. I’m [...]