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Bettween | The Ultimate Twitter Conversation Tracker Website that digs up and displays conversations between any two Twitter users. Handy for stalking & memory-jogging. I like the fact that it bugs you for money while loading up tweets. (tags: twitter tools) T-Mobile shares some Android statistics, will soon support carrier billing T-Mobile (US) have released [...]

Internet Memes Visual timeline of internet meme history, to before the creation of the first emoticon. If you ask me, though, the fun doesn't really begin until 1990 when the term Godwin's Law was first coined. Of course everything went haywire in 1993 once Eternal September began. (tags: internet history timeline infographics)

A List Apart: Articles: The Myth of Usability Testing Since 1998 Rolf Molich's work has indicated that usability experts rarely form consensus views. His Comparative Usability Evaluations show that different teams will identify different issues, and their findings rarely overlap. Does this reflect flaw in methodology, or something more basic? (tags: ux research usability)

The Scoop on Content Strategy: An Interview with Kristina Halvorson :: UXmatters

How Twitter works in theory "It is said that an economist is someone who sees something that works in practice and wonders whether it works in theory. Twitter clearly works in practice…" – but how does it work in theory? In this articulate and erudite post, Kevin Marks explains the theoretical framework he uses to [...]

How Many Marriages Started With Online-Dating Sites? – The Numbers Guy … The WSJ's Numbers Guy looks critically at dating sites and their claims of success. Online metrics provide powerful insights but are very easy to manipulate, exaggerate and spin. The online dating industry is particularly prone to this sort of thing as these numbers [...]

Sales Process… meet Buying Process; and why context trumps segmentation | Information Answers (tags: VRM)

The Museum of Lost Interactions… About MoLI "Welcome to the museum of lost interaction; a timeline of innovation. Nine exhibits ranging from 1900 to 1979, comprising audio recording machines, wireless morse communicators, portable video to the precurser behind iTunes. The museum holds an inspirational array of invention, guaranteed never to have been found, documented or [...]

xkcd – Flow Charts A guide to understanding flow charts, presented in flow chart form (tags: visualisation humour)

"You wouldn't buy our shitty cars. So we'll be taking your money anyway" Satirical advert about the impending bailout of the three largest American automobile manufacturers (tags: images politics) The three laws of great graphs – Seth Godin I've got a big presentation coming up this Friday and am elbow-deep in Powerpoint. In this post [...]

BBC still don't get external links – BBC Journalism Labs blog The BBC have long been criticised (including by the BBC Trust) for not providing useful, effective links to external sites. Earlier this year it ran an experiment using Apture to give users "previews" of external sites – in popup windows, oddly enough. One wonders [...]

Store » eCommerce Developers (Page 1 of 2) | Web Retailer A list of ecommerce providers. Exciting, eh? (tags: ecommerce)

Divorce or Counselling?: Retailers next move in eCommerce Detailed piece from Derek Dunlop at Conchango about evaluating ecommerce platforms and formulating strategies for future direction & investment (tags: ecommerce retail)

LBi confirms redundancies in design and build departments LBi is the UK's largest digital marketing agency and a competitor of ours. It's just laid off 17 of its 420-strong workforce – the layoffs affected the design and build disciplines. Ewen Sturgeon, the CEO, seems to indicate that the redundancies are pre-emptive and not reactive (tags: [...]

Online Shopping to Plateau As Slump Hits Cyberspace – WSJ.com Christoper Lawton of the Wall Street Journal on expected performance of online retail in the 2008 peak season. In recent years retailers have seen double-digit year-on-year revenue growth. Until recently there had been a hope that growth would be only slightly diminished by the economic [...]

Interview with Brian Oakes Brian Oakes was the graphic designer behind the infographics on IOUSA, a film that achieves the near-impossible in explaining the US national debt and problem it poses. This is an interview with him (tags: infographics economics visualisation)

Will the Real Information Architect Please Stand Up? – SlideShare An engaging and entertaining presentation by Gail Leija that explores who information architects are as well as what it is that they actually do. (tags: ia presentation)

The LHC and the Bizarre Behaviour of the BBC | The Lay Scientist Details leak out about the story behind the BBC's strange focus on "Red Button Day", September 10th, and how its odd coverage of the LHC's "turn-on" resulted from a generalised incomprehension of the subject matter. Of "particular" (ho-ho) interest to physicists (tags: [...]

50 websites you'll wonder how you lived without | News | TechRadar UK A fairly huge list of websites and web utilities, a lot of which do look genuinely useful. From browser-based equivalents of Excel and Visio to project management and online file backup services. (tags: websites utilities tools)

Make a Local Backup Of Your Gmail Account Are you a heavy user of Gmail? It's handy to have so much information in one place isn't it? Phone numbers, addresses, logins for various websites, and so on, and all nicely searchable too. But what if your account got disabled? It happens, and it happened to [...]