Silberbauer Says:

In today’s alert box Jakob Nielsen gets angry on Adobe for forgetting the OK button on a preference dialog.

And yes, of course Adobe should have added an OK button to the Windows version of the dialog, but for Mac folks, this is how dialogs have been for ages – that is without an OK button when it wasn’t needed.

So – in this case Nielsen is right (it’s always easy to be right about obvious stuff). But with his “33 years of experience using computers” Nielsen could have at least mentioned that to exclude the OK button used to be a very common design standard for Mac applications.

Also, it seems to me that with users getting used to Ajax-style “on the fly saving” of data, the missing OK button is getting more and more normal.

Speaking of benchmarking…

Have a nice weekend.

Really good slideshow about the economics of micromedia, connected consumption and the snowball effect.
Nice to see a web 2.0 slide show that’s not focused on technology but on the development of the New Media Economics.
Although 107 slides is a lot, I liked the intelligent analysis of broadcast/blockbuster media and micromedia. Enjoy

Behold, behold! The New 7 Wonders of the world have been announced. And behold again: 6 of them are extremely old buildings, and the seventh is the horrible over-sized Jesus thing in Rio de Janeiro. That for sure is no wonder: It’s just a big ass chunk of concrete erected to intimidate people not to regress into their native believes.

The 7 wonders of the ancient world really were wonders at the time. But I think we’ve come a long way since it was wondrous to build a large statue or do a nice temple. We can do that any time we want to. But building a long suspension bridge, inventing a CAT scanner or a tunnel scanning microscope certainly takes a lot more effort and does quite a lot more good. And what about nifty stuff like the GPS system, the Arecibo telescope, the International Space Station, the Saturn V – or the internet? Nah – that’s just modern crap.

So we opt for some ruins, because that’s what they did 3.000 years ago (except that the ruins weren’t ruins then). Very imaginative, people.

And now for something completely different:
A couple of snap shots from my holiday in Italy.

Gasexplosions

Gasexplosions from the volcano on the small Island of Stromboli. According to Wikipedia and my experience from two days on the island, it’s one of the most active volcanos in Italy. Stromboli is definetly a ‘must see’ if your on Sicily or in Naples. It’s a bit difficult to access, but definitely worth the trouble. Spend a night or two, it’s amazing!

Mount Etna:
The highest volcano in Europe. The pictures was taken near the summit, at aprox. 3000 meters above sea level. It’s a picture of the main crater, which is always smoking. The major erruptions takes place once or twice in 10 years period.

One of the larger craters, where you can see the sendiments from previous erruptions. Notice the person in the middle of the picture and the cones in the background, it’s a very large volcano!!!

IE Tab. Brilliant! It runs IE inside a tab in Firefox. Excellent if your internet bank (and too much other stuff) only works for real in IE. Simply compile a list over alle the sites that you want to run in an IE context, and you never have to start IE again – manually that is. IE Tab will embed IE into Firefox when needed.

One of those tools that just makes your life that little bit easier.

At e-consultancy‘s What’s New In Online Marketing, London June 27, Flemming Madsen presented Onalytica. It’s a tool for measuring your brand’s online impact. Like Google, Onalytica counts links, but unlike the big G, Onalytica weighs each link according to the credibility of the source. Also, Onalytica (partly) understands the context of the link and thus it can judge (with a precision about 93 %) wether the brand (or product, or subject) is referred to in a negative or positive manner.

This opens for pretty nice analysis of brand impact and for targeting those sources that are especially influential. Of course your brand have to be large enough to be discussed substantially online – in reviews, in blogosphere etc.

More from WNIOM to come…