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    Why research is essential in product design

    by Rian van der Merwe
    Sep 12, 2013
    I agree with every glorious word in Erika Hall’s How the ‘Failure’ Culture of Startups Is Killing Innovation. It’s a brilliant and impassioned defense of making design research part of every product development process:

    Somewhere along the way, it got to be uncool to reduce one’s risk of failure.

    Part of this may be because the risk of failure is dramatically lower than it used to be. But another reason is that many people don’t actually understand what research is, and have...

    Google Update Reports Again: September 12th

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Sep 12, 2013
    I've received a few emails, a bunch of tweets, plus I noticed new comments on our older posts and some updates in the WebmasterWorld thread that signifies a possible Google update rolling out this month.

    The chatter is there...

    Google AdWords New Ad Format Labeled "Ad"

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Sep 12, 2013
    Spotted by two of our readers, @adaircameron and @tecnonetblog, Google is showing a new ad format test for mobile AdWords ads.

    This one is interesting because it shows the ad as a normal search results listing...

    Apple and emerging markets

    by Rian van der Merwe
    Sep 11, 2013
    More than a few people seem to be confused about the pricing strategy for the iPhone 5C. There are probably only two articles you need to read about that: John Gruber’s Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction, and Ben Thompson’s The iPhone is Apple Doubling-Down On What It Does Best.

    But even those articles don’t address a complaint that I’ve seen quite a bit of over the past couple of days: that Apple is trying (and failing) to expand into emerging markets. Here’s...

    What should a site owner do if they think they might be affected by Panda?

    Sep 11, 2013
    Recently Google has integrated the Panda update in to its normal indexing process. Now, how will webmaster come to know whether her site is hit by...

    How Your Site Architecture and Website Navigation Affect SEO

    Jill Whalen
    by Jill Whalen
    Sep 11, 2013
    As discussed in my last article about technical SEO issues, it's crucial to be sure that you have no server errors on your site. But there are other technical issues that relate to your website navigation and how you set up your overall site architecture.

    Give Examples: Is Google Lying To Us?

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Sep 11, 2013
    If any of you read some of the comments left on the stuff I write here, you will see some of the anger and actual hate some webmasters have towards Google and even myself. They think that I am paid by Google to feed you things that they want you to hear and believe all in an effort to set you up and make you all fail.

    Could You Walk In Google’s Shoes? Making Tough Calls With Search Listings

    dannysullivan
    by dannysullivan
    Sep 11, 2013
    It’s pretty easy to sit back and slam Google for how you think it should make decisions when it comes to search listings. It’s much harder to actually make those decisions, when you have a deeper understanding of all the implications involved. To experience this better, here’s a chance to put yourself in Google’s shoes and make some of the tough decisions.

    Below is a video from a special session we did at our SMX West search marketing conference earlier this year. Patrick Thomas, Google’s...

    Where the hashtag really comes from

    by Rian van der Merwe
    Sep 10, 2013
    Keith Houston’s fascinating essay The Ancient Roots of Punctuation begins like this:

    The story of the hashtag begins sometime around the fourteenth century, with the introduction of the Latin abbreviation “lb,” for the Roman term libra pondo, or “pound weight.” Like many standard abbreviations of that period, “lb” was written with the addition of a horizontal bar, known as a tittle, or tilde. And though printers commonly cast this barred abbreviation as a single character, it was the...

    The city as panopticon

    by Rian van der Merwe
    Sep 10, 2013
    I continue to be fascinated by the smart city movement. The multiplexed metropolis is a very interesting look by The Economist at the pros and cons of connecting cities through open access to all kinds of information:

    But clever cities will not necessarily be better ones. Rather than becoming paragons of democracy, they could turn into electronic panopticons in which everybody is constantly watched. They could be paralysed by hackers, or by bugs in labyrinthine software. They could...