Last week Jake Rocheleau over at insidethewebb was kind enough to interview me about Blurtit.com and how it compares to other Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers.
Heres the link:
Interview with Yahoo! Answers Q&A Competitor Blurtit | Inside the Webb.
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This week Blurtit.com was lucky enough to be featured in the business section of the EDP:
Norfolk firm answers web profit puzzle – Norfolk Business News – EDP24.
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Realtime analytics is going to be big in 2010. Just as realtime looks set to add a whole new dimension to search, as-it-happens analytics could revolutionize understanding of the way visitors interact with websites. Keep reading…
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Recently Spotlight on my MacBook Pro started having a problem where it couldn’t complete its indexing. While searching around for a solution I came upon this useful trick to force Spotlight into creating a new index without using the terminal.
Keep reading…
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This week I had the pleasure of speaking with web usability expert Jared Spool. Jared is CEO and founder of User Interface Engineering the largest research, training and consulting company specializing in web and product usability.
Watch Jared speaking at SXSW 2009:
Journey to the Center of Design Pt. 1 and Journey to the Center of Design Pt. 2
Over the 20+ years Jared has been working in the industry, he has helped countless companies reach their business goals, both online and offline.
Jared was kind enough to agree to a short interview and share some invaluable insights into web usability. Keep reading…
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I am always looking for new ways to make myself and those around me more productive (which makes me really popular), this urge combined with my unhealthy iPhone obsession inspired to make the following list.
Please let me know what you think of the list in the comments, I would also be really interested in hearing about the apps that make your life easier.
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Day by day, bit by bit your Mac has got slower and slower. You don’t really notice because it has happened so gradually.
Keep reading…
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If you want your site to reach its full potential it’s important that you have an understanding of how your visitors interact with it. Making your site easy to use can have a massive effect on conversions, sales or whatever goals you may have.
Here are a selection of excellent books covering the subject of usability and interaction design to get you started:
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While preparing a new post for chriswrites I had to rename around 50 files before uploading them to my ftp server, so instead of doing it manually I decided to give Automator a try. Although I had a rough idea what Automator was, I really wasn’t sure what it was capable of, so I was really pleased to discover that its a pretty powerful tool.
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Today I received an invite to the Hunch private beta, which was pretty exciting, usually when I apply for these things I never hear back from them : (
Anyway if you haven’t heard of Hunch, its a new take on the Questions and Answers format, instead of getting a written answer from another user, it takes you through a simple decision tree, basically it asks you multiple choice questions about the thing your looking for the answer to, after a number of steps it give you an answer.
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My name is Christopher Lee and I'm co-founder of the questions & answers community Blurtit.com. Here I intend to share my insights, knowledge and opinions on things that interest me. Read more at my about page
