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Cliff Kuang discusses wearable tech and ubiquitous computing in Why a New Golden Age for UI Design Is Around the Corner:

In the wrong hands, this is a dystopian prospect—technology’s unwanted intrusion into our every waking moment. But without the proper design, without considering how new products and services fit into people’s day-to-day lives, any new technology can be terrifying. That’s where the challenge comes in. The task of making this new world can’t be left up to engineers and...

Google announced a new feature rolling out to U.S., English-speaking users on desktop, tablet and smartphone that makes Google act as your personal virtual assistant. Yes, you don't have to type...

Will Google rank a site poorly if it is not optimized for mobile devices?

A new post from www.davidnaylor.co.uk. BAZINGA!

Yesterday, Matt Cutts, Google's head of search spam, posted another video on links clearly telling widget makers and those who embed widgets on their own sites that those links should be nofollowed.

He said clearly, "I would recommend putting a nofollow...

But I’m a substitute for another guy I look pretty tall but my heels are high The simple things you see are all complicated I look pretty young, but I’m just backdated, yeah

- Peter Townsend

When you search at Google, how easy is it to find what you’re looking for? Do you search again, [...]

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I’m currently travelling in the U.S., which means I can finally drag some of my favorite apps from the graveyard screen on my iPhone to the home screen. I’m now happily exploring around in Yelp and Fandango, which I haven’t been able to do in a while. Even Foursquare — which I’m already a huge fan of — is suddenly on steroids.

At the same time, there’s one part of Don Norman’s The Paradox of Wearable Technologies that I keep coming back to:

I am fully dependent upon modern technologies...

It seems that Google have sneakily changed the way you can ask for a reconsideration request, if you go to  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?hl=en you will see that Google make you check if you have any manual actions : and if...