O Google lança um video mostrando as novas funcionalidades do seu produto, o Orkut, a verdade é que no Brasil esta ferramenta é bastante utilizada e sempre será, o Orkut atualmente é considerado uma espécie de suburbio das redes sociais, mas isso é irrelevante, nem deveria ser dito, mas é fato.

No Brasil temos evidentemente uma grande diferença entre as classes sociais, agora o espaço democratico e livre que é a internet também transpareçe essa evidência, Orkut é para os mais humildes e Facebook para os emergentes, a verdade é que as duas ferramentas são apenas plataformas que facilitam o relacionamento das pessoas em suas própias redes, a discussão das funcionalides nem vem ao caso, porque o que o povo quer de verdade é se relacionar, apenas isso.

Agora sobre o video, é legalzinho, feito e em stopmotion e versão bem “brasileirinha”, o formato é gasto, camêra com foco no rosto e o dia passando, no final a assinatura “Você não é igual a toda hora. Por que na Internet seria diferente?”.

1. Usability Means…

Usability means making sure something works well, and that a person of average ability or experience can use it for it’s intended purpose without getting hopelessly frustrated.

2. Web applications should explain themselves.

As far as humanly possible, when I look at a web page it should be self-evident. Obvious. Self-explanatory.

3. Don’t Make Me Think
As a rule, people don’t like to puzzle over how to do things. If people who build a site don’t care enough to make things obvious it can erode confidence in the site and it’s publishers.

4. Don’t waste my time

Much of our web use is motivated by the desire to save time. As a result, web users tend to act like sharks. They have to keep moving or they’ll die.

5. Users still cling to their back buttons

There’s not much of a penalty for guessing wrong. Unlike firefighting, the penalty for guessing wrong on a website is just a click or two of the back button. The back buttn is the most-used feature of web browsers.

6. We’re creatures of habit

If we find something that works, we stick to it. Once we find something that works — no matter how badly — we tend not to look for a better way. We’ll use a better way if we stumble across one, but we seldom look for one.

7. No Time for Small Talk

Happy talk is like small talk – content free, basically just a way to be sociable. But most Web users don’t have time for small talk; they want to get right to the beef. You can – and should – eliminate as much happy talk as possible.

8. Don’t lose search

Some people (search-dominant users), will almost always look for a search box as they enter a site. These may be the same people who look for the nearest clerk as soon as they enter a store.

9. We form mental site-maps

When we return to something on a Web site, instead of replying on a physical sense of where it is, we have to remember where it is in the conceptual hierarchy and retrace our steps.

10. Make it easy to go home

Having a home button in sight at all times offers reassurance that no matter how lost I may get, I can always start over, like pressing a Resent button or using a “Get out of Jail free” card.

“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

Quando um espaçamento mal feito causa um desastre editorial, me assustei ao ver esse box abaixo no site da Globo.com, o problema foi por conta da leitura instatânea, imediatamente pude ler a seguinte frase “Após 3 horas de Alline Moraes chuva, SP deixa…” aconteceu só comigo?

Flamenguista que sou, outro dia vendo os resultados da última rodada do Brasileirão encontrei a seguinte notícia: