That Danny!

On the day after the two emblematic retail groups Woolworths and MFI had gone under in the UK, their websites showed the signs of disaffected (and potentially jobless) web staff - and who can blame them.
At Woolies they couldn’t be asked, so the website simply reported that the site was “undergoing essential maintenance”, which is [...]

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Google Flu trends tracker - the new service launched by Google.org holds both an amazing promise and a somewhat disconcerting threat.
The flu tracker was created by Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, and it uses aggregated search information to estimate flu activity in the US, or as Google.org itself explains: “We’ve discovered that there is [...]

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Chris Read, a 42-year-old from Kent, is facing legal action for libel after leaving negative feedback for an item he bought on auction site eBay. On October 3, Read used the feedback facility on eBay and wrote: “Item was scratched, chipped and not the model advertised on Mr Jones’s eBay account.” Mr Read subsequently received [...]

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Website statistics: what’s wrong with the following statements?
1. My website gets 20,000 hits a month!
2. My website gets three million unique visitors a year!
3. Our statistics show that users spend an average of 30 minutes per visit to our website!
When you boast to your friends that your blog gets 10,000 hits, or tell your boss that your company’s [...]

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The web design space is getting crowded, and it’s getting difficult to tell the good guys from the ones who try to sell you a falafel of sales jargon. Or does it?
It never ceases to amaze me when a company, purporting to design websites, lets its own site look like it was cobbled together by [...]

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Your passwords and indiscretions for world+wife to see.
OK - I admit it’s a problem that’s also inherent in Firefox, but Google’s new browser, supposedly built from the ground up, should really NOT do this. It’s absolutely effing bonkers!
What am I on about? Google Chrome allowing users to view ALL their saved passwords for different websites, [...]

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I’ve been asked by Bid Boogie’s PR to review their new UK site. I got some free credits and a promise that I won’t have to be nice (”We would love to hear your feedback and we appreciate that you need to be impartial.”).
Now here’s my problem: I think that Bid Boogie are a [...]

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I was looking at usability companies in the UK for a client, and decided to venture out beyond the usual suspects to see who else is out there, so I looked at Google Adwords for “usability UK”, and clicked on this one:

And this is what I got:

Not a good result for a usability company. [...]

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