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40,888 | matbalez | 2007-08-09T15:03:16 | Can You Build a Startup Ecosystem Outside the Valley? | http://www.instigatorblog.com/can-you-build-a-startup-ecosystem-outside-the-valley/2007/08/09/ | 8 | 6 | [
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40,897 | Sam_Odio | 2007-08-09T15:38:43 | cookout at the anybots/yc office | One of the <i>few</i> things I accomplished at anybots was to organize a weekly BBQ at the office every wednesday... <p>Well, because of demo day, I thought I'd reschedule next week's BBQ to saturday (the 18th), and invite some News.YCers. Trevor says the YC crew will still be in town, so some of those guys might show up as well...<p>Space is limited - I can't afford to cook for more then about 10. RSVP here. Cookout starts @ 12:30, arrive early if you want to hack / chill / check out the robots / whatever. Dexter & Monty will be serving the food.<p>UPDATE: Please, no schmoozing. Don't come if you're only interested in pitching your business. | 10 | 10 | [
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40,912 | vlad | 2007-08-09T16:07:39 | Build an Infinitely Scalable Infrastructure for $100 Using Amazon Services | http://highscalability.com/build-infinitely-scalable-infrastructure-100-using-amazon-services | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,913 | samb | 2007-08-09T16:09:23 | ooma on sale today | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/09/ooma-goes-on-sale-a-month-early/ | 3 | 3 | [
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40,919 | transburgh | 2007-08-09T16:23:06 | Wow - Clown Co. Got That $1 billion Valuation (still nameless though) | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/09/wow-clown-co-got-that-1-billion-valuation-still-nameless-though/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,921 | ivankirigin | 2007-08-09T16:24:34 | Idea: invite the companies most-likely-to-acquire YC Startups to demo day. | It is a bad idea to pretend you're disinterested in acquisition. That is the consensus, right?<p>If potential acquiring companies are invited, the conversation could be started early.<p>One drawback might be tipping your competition off to the ideas, but that seems to be a smaller threat than obscurity, right? | 1 | 1 | [
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40,928 | chwolfe | 2007-08-09T16:36:20 | Apple Kicks Microsoft Where It Hurts | http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/apple_kicks_mic.html | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | news | null | null | InformationWeek is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLCThis site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.HomeLatest NewsOriginal reporting, exclusive interviews, and sharp analysis by experienced journalists. Coverage of the breaking and developing news that IT executives need to know about, like moves in the enterprise IT market, major cyberattacks, and more.Previous12345…1623NextEditor's ChoiceWebinarsHarnessing Mainframe Data for AI-Driven Enterprise AnalyticsNov 12, 2024Navigating the Risks: Why SaaS Management is Crucial for Compliance and Security in Healthcare & FinanceNov 14, 2024Strengthening Cloud Security: Addressing Today's Threats and Preparing for TomorrowNov 19, 2024White PapersWork Smarter, Not Harder with Gemini in Security OperationsThe Defender's Advantage for Critical Infrastructure and Operational TechnologyThe AI-Driven Security Operations Platform for the Modern SOC E-BookAutomate IT Playbook: A Playbook to Supercharge ITSM with AutomationPrescriptive and Predictive Power Management Strategies for High-Density CabinetsReports2024 InformationWeek US IT Salary ReportMay 29, 20242022 State of ITOps and SecOpsJun 21, 2022Never Miss a Beat: Get a snapshot of the issues affecting the IT industry straight to your inbox. | 2024-11-08T10:39:28 | en | train |
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40,949 | brett | 2007-08-09T17:16:14 | Disqus (YC) to launch new commenting features | http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/08/disqus-to-launch-new-features/ | 6 | 1 | [
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Disqus is going to launch two features to help blog readers track the most interesting comments on a blog or other web site.
Forum and blogging software has been around for many years, but there’s still no easy way to find the best comments within a web site or from across web sites.
Disqus has a two-part answer to this problem. It provides an advanced commenting system that can be added to a blog article page. Features include nested comments — tiered according to the order in which they were left — and a way for readers to vote for or against comments, and spam protection.
The other feature is a forum hosted separately by Disqus that displays comments from a blog according to how recent the post was published and how “hot” the discussion is on a particular post — in other words, how many comments that post has.
But there are many competitors.
VentureBeat — and other blogs, including Read/WriteWeb — have been testing SezWho (see below), which allows readers to rank each others’ comments, creating a reputation system that users can take with them across blogs. Techcrunch just covered Intense Debate, which provides similar reputation tracking to SezWho. We’ve also written on some of the others, such as CoComment. Public Square provides all-in-one online publishing software that includes a built-in social network for commenters.
Fred Wilson’s “A VC” blog has good examples of both the blog commenting system and the separate forum system for his blog, although the service is not yet publicly available.
Disqus is part of Big Head Labs and has received funding from Y Combinator.
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40,957 | horatio05 | 2007-08-09T17:26:21 | Spock Serving 400 Pageviews Per Second at Launch | null | http://mashable.com/2007/08/08/spock-serving-400-pageviews-per-second-at-launch/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,960 | transburgh | 2007-08-09T17:35:01 | Who Is Cloning Who? Business2.0, try again | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/09/who-is-cloning-who-business20-try-again/ | 2 | 1 | [
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40,964 | lispy | 2007-08-09T18:07:26 | Startups: We're assailed by doubts, mortified by our own shortcomings... | snip:<p>Ways a startup can feel deeply flawed without really being flawed at all:<p>True believers go nuts at small provocations
Startups are freak-catchers
Good code takes time
Everybody has to rebuild
Fearless leaders are often terrified
Competition starts at $100M in revenue | http://www.ondisruption.com/my_weblog/2007/08/ignore-the-dot-.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,965 | samb | 2007-08-09T18:11:13 | The 38th Signal: 37signals parody (off-topic, but funny) | http://38thsignal.blogspot.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,973 | tocomment | 2007-08-09T18:36:57 | Anyone Interested in Turning this Technology into a Web Application? | I think it would be a fun project / business but I'd like some help. Any takers? | http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/scene-completion/ | 18 | 15 | [
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40,975 | ks | 2007-08-09T18:41:59 | Apple's Numbers like Trapeze, but 20 years later | It looks like good ideas will never die. | http://thecodist.com/fiche/thecodist/article/apples-numbers-spreadsheet--like-my-trapeze-spreadsheet-but-20-years-later | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,977 | dawie | 2007-08-09T18:51:04 | 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design | null | http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/08/80-beautiful-fonts-typefaces-for-professional-design/ | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
40,980 | sbraford | 2007-08-09T19:00:26 | Developer Platform on Google Apps for Domains? | http://sablog.com/archives/2007/08/09/oh-man-this-would-be-killer | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,988 | sbraford | 2007-08-09T19:26:13 | Collaboration is Hard, Part III | http://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2007/08/collaboration-1.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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40,990 | sbraford | 2007-08-09T19:29:52 | Netscape bigger than Digg? (including forced netscape.com startpage users) | http://www.calacanis.com/2007/08/07/netscape-bigger-than-digg/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,005 | amichail | 2007-08-09T19:59:04 | Why social networks use bidirectional links even though unidirectional links are probably better | http://mindrosity.blogspot.com/2007/08/why-social-networks-use-bidirectional.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,006 | MrHaney | 2007-08-09T20:10:06 | Billionaire M&A Deal-maker Training | Learn how to become a billionaire through M&A. | http://smartstartup.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/08/billionaire-cou.html | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,008 | transburgh | 2007-08-09T20:12:59 | Meetup Launches Facebook Application | null | http://www.centernetworks.com/meetup-launches-facebook-application | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,012 | transburgh | 2007-08-09T20:32:20 | Wal-Mart Hawks Wares On Facebook | null | http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/09/wal-mart-hawks-wares-on-facebook | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,013 | mf | 2007-08-09T20:34:34 | Does anyone have any links (video/audio/notes/articles) for Ycombinator, PG, or any of the startups? | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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41,020 | eastsidegringo | 2007-08-09T20:47:03 | Are You a Ninja or a Pirate Personality Test | Yesterday I explored the two main personality types: Pirates and Ninjas. Now you can take the questionnaire that will tell you what kind of person you really are.
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41,027 | transburgh | 2007-08-09T21:06:18 | Veoh Sues Universal Music | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/09/breaking-veoh-sues-universal-music/ | 5 | 2 | [
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Given that the lawsuits tend to flow one way against the video startups, this is a major surprise.
In the press release, Veoh says they acted based on “unreasonable threats” from Universal and filed the lawsuit under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA. In a phone call a few minutes ago, Mitgang told me that the two companies met recently, and that Universal made it clear that they would be suing Veoh for copyright infringement in the near future. These kinds of threats are not idle – Universal tends to follow up with actual lawsuits.
When a company feels that a lawsuit is imminent, they can strike first to head it off. Since Veoh feels it has protection under the DMCA for its business model, they are striking first.
Mitgang also mentioned to me that Universal Music has never sent them a DMCA take down notice of any kind. He says that they would have complied immediately.
Story in progress, check back for more.
Complaint is below:
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41,034 | nivi | 2007-08-09T22:01:49 | Edward Tufte on How to Moderate Forums | "Our view is that every contribution to Ask E.T. should advance the analytical quality of the thread."<p>This is exactly my approach on Venture Hacks.<p>Nivi - <a href="http://venturehacks.com" rel="nofollow">http://venturehacks.com</a> | http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000fT&topic_id=1 | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,043 | dawie | 2007-08-09T22:23:11 | 10 Designer's Checkpoints To Be Aware Of | null | http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/10/10-designers-checkpoints-to-be-aware-of/ | 13 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,044 | rokhayakebe | 2007-08-09T22:23:34 | Prediction: YC's IPO is in the works. | While we all waiting for the next YC startup to go public or get acquired, we forget about YC itslef as a company. I think there is an IPO somewhere down the line. | 1 | 7 | [
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41,051 | marrone | 2007-08-09T23:00:09 | Your Face To The World | Good article on home-page design. I'm sure we can all agree on the importance of the home page, but the article goes into depth of the why and the how of it.<p>Some summarized points (lots more in the article):<p>"A home page's impact on a company's bottom line is far greater than simple measures of e-commerce revenues.
The home page is your company's face to the world. " - Jakob Nielsen<p>There are only two important functions for a home page:
<i> The home page delivers the content to [users] that they are seeking (such as the top story on CNN ) or
</i> The home page provides strong scent to those pages that contain the content the user seeks.<p>What Do Customers Want?<p>When customers visit your home page, their attention span is limited. They are busy and want to find answers quickly.
They don't want unnecessary distractions and will immediately leave and go to another site if they cannot find what they
want on your home page. They do not want to wade through marketing messages.<p>When customers arrive at your home page, they expect to find what they want quickly.
After all, the promise of the Web is to provide an efficient, alternative channel that
complements other channels like bricks-and-mortar shops and corporate customer support.<p>When customers visit a home page (whether for the first time or as repeat visitors) they might want to
<i> satisfy an information need quickly
</i> look for contact information like a phone number or email address
<i> autonomously complete a task, without needing customer support
</i> solve a problem
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41,064 | terpua | 2007-08-09T23:35:18 | "great scientists" Spock search returned 1 result | It's not even Einstein! | http://www.spock.com/q/great-scientists | 5 | 6 | [
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41,065 | benhoyt | 2007-08-09T23:36:04 | How do you like our new way to fund software by teaming up? (microPledge public launch) | null | http://blog.micropledge.com/2007/08/micropledge-public-launch/ | 20 | 10 | [
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41,069 | transburgh | 2007-08-09T23:43:30 | AOL May Kill Their Netscape Digg Clone | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/09/aol-may-kill-their-netscape-digg-clone/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,085 | brett | 2007-08-10T00:18:27 | Google to sell overflow storage for Gmail, other apps | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/09/google-provides-extra-storage-for-gmail/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,089 | parker | 2007-08-10T00:40:08 | Pitch Deck vs Executive Summary vs Full Business Plan: The Most Utilized? | To paraphrase Guy Kawasaki, "I'm an entrepreneur, therefore I pitch". I'm wondering what you guys have found most useful in communicating your business to potential investors, employees, and partners?<p>Obviously there's a huge difference in ratio of information to time needed to create it, but I'm wondering if I should take the time to create all three just to have them handy, or none and just birth them on demand? Which have you found most useful internally? | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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41,092 | bootload | 2007-08-10T00:50:15 | The Limits of Efficiency | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/the_limits_of_e.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Radar - O’Reilly | null | By Ben Lorica and Claire Vo |
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41,095 | jkopelman | 2007-08-10T00:54:14 | Redeye VC: Voicestar acquired by Marchex | null | http://redeye.firstround.com/2007/08/voicestar-acqui.html | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T03:40:52 | null | train |
41,098 | jl | 2007-08-10T01:08:54 | Demo Day at Y Combinator | http://www.innoeco.com/2007/08/demo-day-at-y-combinator.html | 18 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,099 | horatio05 | 2007-08-10T01:22:13 | VCs Making More Deals, For Fewer Dollars | null | http://www.xconomy.com/2007/08/07/vcs-making-more-deals-for-fewer-dollars/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,100 | horatio05 | 2007-08-10T01:22:22 | YouTube Killer Gets $100M in Funding | http://mashable.com/2007/08/09/youtube-killer-funded/ | 12 | 14 | [
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41,103 | horatio05 | 2007-08-10T01:25:28 | VMware IPO Price Going Up, Up, Up | null | http://www.xconomy.com/2007/08/09/vmware-ipo-price-going-up-up-up/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | http_404 | 404 – Page Not Found | null | null | BioXconomy is part of the Informa Connect Division of Informa PLCInforma PLC|ABOUT US|INVESTOR RELATIONS|TALENTThis site is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726. | 2024-11-07T19:23:18 | null | train |
41,106 | leeskye | 2007-08-10T01:36:57 | Google Phone? | Not sure if this is real or if its already been posted. Looks pretty. | http://www.webtuga.com/telemoveis/mobile-phones/o-google-phone-esta-a-chegar.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,111 | vlad | 2007-08-10T01:48:46 | Innovation and the University-Industry Interface | null | http://www.xconomy.com/2007/07/02/innovation-and-the-university-industry-interface/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,113 | vlad | 2007-08-10T01:50:07 | Shopping 3.0: The New Face of e-Commerce | null | http://www.xconomy.com/2007/06/05/shopping-30-new-face-of-e-commerce/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,122 | danw | 2007-08-10T02:23:38 | How to Create Business Cards That Bring You Business | null | http://www.zoomstart.com/create-business-cards-that-bring-business/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,126 | drm237 | 2007-08-10T02:38:47 | Web App Autopsy: Read Me Before Starting a Startup | # Don't launch your webapp in December, unless you're doing it to make January's sales look particularly good.
# Language choice doesn't matter: pick the one you like and get on with building it already.
# 1% is a pretty consistently advertised figure for the conversion from free to pay accounts. Only inflate this number if you're about to do a dog and pony show for a VC, otherwise you will only have yourself to blame when you manage to achieve 1%.
# The one number that's missing here which would help to provide a sense of scale is the actual user base of each app. It's almost like pulling a Michael Moore: the murder rate in the US is way higher than in Canada (they have 10x the population, but sssssh! Don't tell anyone or the numbers are less impressive!)
# Remember that, along with a bigger user base comes a higher support cost. Look at RegOnline's support calls/day compared to even FeedBurner's. | http://www.radiantcore.com/blog/archives/09/08/2007/webappautopsy | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,128 | dherman76 | 2007-08-10T02:39:50 | Does the Internet/Digital Media Disregard Ethics? | A look into digital media and it's disregard of ethics and morales. | http://www.darrenherman.com/2007/08/09/where-did-morals-and-ethics-go-or-am-i-too-old-school/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,133 | chazwozz | 2007-08-10T03:26:38 | Which database should my startup use? | We are looking at doing a startup website that will hopefully receive lots of traffic.<p>I am interested to know what databases people use for their startups. <p>Obviously MySQL or other open source ones are the cheapest options, but would these hold up a serious site like Digg, Facebook, etc? Or would it be better starting off with something like Oracle?
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41,153 | nickb | 2007-08-10T04:07:50 | Lift Web Framework | http://liftweb.net/ | 6 | 1 | [
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41,154 | nickb | 2007-08-10T04:09:49 | ETags, ETags, ETags (Optimize your website!) | http://www.mnot.net/blog/2007/08/07/etags | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,155 | nickb | 2007-08-10T04:12:08 | Wii JavaScript SDK | http://hullbreachonline.com/wii/sdk.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,157 | nickb | 2007-08-10T04:17:37 | On DTrace envy | BTW, DTrace is also part of Leopard! | http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/244536/25d6280f7891259b/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,172 | nickb | 2007-08-10T04:52:06 | A Taste of Haskell Part I (wanna learn Haskell from one of its creators?) | http://blip.tv/file/324976 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,190 | benhoyt | 2007-08-10T06:24:01 | Any ideas why our site's getting 404s to the /undefined URL? | It's really strange: we're getting occasional 404 page-not-founds at the URL /undefined on our site (micropledge.com). HTTP_REFERER is set, usually to our home page, so it's not some random guy typing into his address bar. We saw who it was once when it happened, so we contacted him, but he said he didn't see anything wrong in his browser -- so it's something behind-the-scenes.<p>Haven't been able to reproduce it here, or find any answers on the web. Doesn't seem to be a specific browser. My hunch is that it's some JavaScript quirk, or possibly the Google Analytics JS code, but I'm not sure... | 2 | 3 | [
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41,193 | mmpcse | 2007-08-10T06:46:57 | Beware of Web 2.0 Crossing the Chasm A | null | http://hitechstartups.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/beware-of-web-20-crossing-the-chasm/ | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,194 | aquarin | 2007-08-10T06:54:06 | Working in a Start-up [Wikia] | http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1541 | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,203 | ordersup | 2007-08-10T08:01:46 | The Best Social Networks for Business | http://inc.com/multimedia/slideshows/content/the-best-social-networks-for-business.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,210 | subhash | 2007-08-10T09:19:45 | Easiest way to create cool logos | It works with GIMP in the background. Many of the logo designs are intriguing enough. Definitely worth a try .. | http://cooltext.com/Logos | 4 | 8 | [
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41,216 | jamiequint | 2007-08-10T11:20:02 | Startups for the rest of us | null | http://www.miketaber.net/articles/StartupsForTheRestOfUs.aspx | 1 | 1 | [
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41,224 | pramodbiligiri | 2007-08-10T13:03:34 | Ask pg:How about weekly tarballs of news.yc? We'll learn from how u develop | It would be great to see how Paul Graham <i>evolves</i> software, esp. in Lisp and all - things like handling changing requirements and making the most of Lisp/Arc. Any takers? Just a snapshot of the source... | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | invalid_url | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:37:59 | null | train |
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41,225 | pixcavator | 2007-08-10T13:04:05 | Microsoft Touts Imaging Technology | http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/08/microsoft-touts-imaging-technology | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,226 | markpeterdavis | 2007-08-10T13:04:06 | Why A VC May Be Slow To Respond To Your Executive Summary | After submitting your executive summary you may not receive a response for several weeks. While this can be frustrating, do not let it discourage you... | http://getventure.typepad.com/markpeterdavis/2007/08/after-having-su.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,228 | jcwentz | 2007-08-10T13:07:03 | BitTorrent Addresses Closed Source Issues | http://www.slyck.com/story1566_BitTorrent_Addresses_Closed_Source_Issues | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | timeout | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T04:10:54 | null | train |
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41,229 | jcwentz | 2007-08-10T13:09:08 | Windows Live SkyDrive | null | http://skydrive.live.com/ | 8 | 3 | [
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41,236 | chwolfe | 2007-08-10T13:42:23 | Need For Concern - Business Lending Tightening? | Initially, this was a concern only to the housing sector but it seems to be taking a toll on the market as a whole. Is this something that will hit tech startups down the road? | http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8QTU7SG2.htm | 2 | 1 | [
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41,237 | BioGeek | 2007-08-10T13:45:13 | How filmmaking is like launching a start-up | null | http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6201857.html | 1 | 2 | [
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41,238 | transburgh | 2007-08-10T13:48:36 | The 10 Most Successful Web 2.0 Startups To Date | null | http://technowirenews.blogspot.com/2007/08/10-most-successful-web-20-startups-to.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,241 | jkush | 2007-08-10T13:59:37 | Google Mistakes Own Blog For Spam, Deletes It | http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070808/tc_pcworld/135686?re | 6 | 1 | [
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41,243 | jkush | 2007-08-10T14:03:06 | Building a Robot To Play Guitar Hero | http://guitarheronoid.blogspot.com/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,245 | transburgh | 2007-08-10T14:08:45 | Google Offers Cheap Online File Storage With a Catch | null | http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/08/google-offers-cheap-online-file-storage-with-a-catch.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T04:24:21 | null | train |
41,252 | rockstar9 | 2007-08-10T14:32:27 | Top Blogs Censored in China | The experiment: I tried to access the Technorati Top 100 list. The blog rankings are determined how many other websites link to these top blogs. I used Safari and the command prompt to see which blog timed-out | http://www.sproutly.com/2007/08/10/top-blogs-censored-in-china/ | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,254 | joshwa | 2007-08-10T14:36:00 | Facebook data store api thoughts | http://snarfed.org/space/facebook%20data%20store%20api%20thoughts | 2 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,261 | tkiley | 2007-08-10T15:12:27 | Idea: Mechanical Turk for page usability testing? | My company provides a very unique service -- one that is difficult to explain properly in a few words.<p>As I've worked on designing our web site (particularly the homepage), it occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to do some simple testing with something like the mechanical turk: submit a web page to the service, which would flash it in front of a tester for 5-10 seconds, and then have the tester answer questions about their comprehension of the site's purpose and benefits, and perhaps their own objections or responses. (More in-depth testing processes wouldn't be difficult, but that's the first one that comes to mind for me)<p>I'm working in a pretty unique environment right now -- the market is somewhat small and difficult to target, but ridiculously high-margin (we're looking at creating $500+ profit per user within 1 week of sign-up, essentially.).<p>With low traffic, it's hard to get solid numbers out of page variation testing, and in a wholly new market, I don't even know if most visitors understand our service, so I see the value in turk-ish testing for myself, but I'm not sure if it would have a broad appeal. Would any of you find mechanical turk-based usability testing valuable? | 2 | 1 | [
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41,262 | transburgh | 2007-08-10T15:21:37 | Question of the Day: What is your primary motivator? | null | http://www.foundread.com/view/question-of-the-day126 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,268 | danw | 2007-08-10T15:33:15 | Blueprint: A CSS Framework | http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/blueprint_a_css_framework/ | 23 | 8 | [
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41,269 | rokhayakebe | 2007-08-10T15:33:20 | First look at YC Demo Day | null | http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/08/boston-vcs-gets.html | 25 | 12 | [
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41,273 | transburgh | 2007-08-10T15:43:59 | The Flipper | null | http://www.foundread.com/view/the-flipper | 7 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,275 | transburgh | 2007-08-10T16:06:15 | Facebook Success Doesn't Equal LinkedIn Death | http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/10/facebook-success-doesnt-equal-linkedin-death | 4 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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41,277 | ivankirigin | 2007-08-10T16:15:39 | "Should a Start-up Focus on Going Global Right Away?" | http://edcorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1003 | 1 | 6 | [
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41,285 | danw | 2007-08-10T16:35:20 | Khoi Vinh interviews Olav Frihagen Bjorkoy, creator of the Blueprint CSS Framework | null | http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2007/0807_the_framewor.php | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,287 | danw | 2007-08-10T16:37:58 | Situated Software: "Users By The Dozens" | null | http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html | 5 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
41,288 | transburgh | 2007-08-10T16:38:53 | Forbes Could Acquire Clipmarks | null | http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/08/10/forbes-could-acquire-clipmarks | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | WebProNews - Digital Marketing, Technology, and Business News | null | Name |
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41,290 | joshwa | 2007-08-10T16:44:24 | Fitts' Law: A Usability Quiz | http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html | 15 | 8 | [
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NN/g Home AskTog Columns A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
Ask Tog, February, 1999
(Turkish translation available at http://idefter.com/sayfa/fitts-yasasi-kucuk-bir-test.)
So you think you are an interaction designer? Not if you cannot answer all the following questions quickly and with authority.
If you're not an interaction designer, but you know one—or you are thinking of hiring one—slip them just the questions, and see how well they do. I've used variations of this quiz for years during the interview process to good effect.
These questions and answers assume that you have total control over all screen real estate, the OS, etc. Just pretend you are chief designer for Microsoft or Apple.
If you are new to matters Fitts, take the quiz before looking at the text the follows anyway. The answers are going to thoroughly teach the principles involved, but taking your best shot at the quiz first will make clear to you what assumptions you have been using in the past. You can then measure those assumptions against the answers that follow. And don't feel bad with your initial results: The overwhelming majority of people, even those that have been involved with computers for years, do poorly on their first time around. The good news is that they do great on the retake, and many have found this the most valuable single article on this website, immediately and permanently applicable to their future design work.
The Quiz
You may want to read through all the questions (but not the answers!) once just to get the "lay of the land." Then, go back and answer them. And you really do have to answer them. This is not a quiz that lends itself to looking at a question and saying, “Oh, yeah, sure. I know that one,” and scanning on down. You have to actually articulate the answer. (Otherwise, you are considered to have gotten it wrong.)
No tricks are hiding within. This is all straight business. However, the answers may seem counter-intuitive or counter-experiential, so apparent "obviousness" might not suffice.
Microsoft Toolbars offer the user the option of displaying a label below each tool. Name at least one reason why labeled tools can be accessed faster. (Assume, for this, that the user knows the tool and does not need the label just simply to identify the tool.)You have a palette of tools in a graphics application that consists of a matrix of 16x16-pixel icons laid out as a 2x8 array that lies along the left-hand edge of the screen. Without moving the array from the left-hand side of the screen or changing the size of the icons, what steps can you take to decrease the time necessary to access the average tool?A right-handed user is known to be within 10 pixels of the exact center of a large, 1600 X 1200 screen. You will place a single-pixel target on the screen that the user must point to exactly. List the five pixel locations on the screen that the user can access fastest. For extra credit, list them in order from fastest to slowest access.Microsoft offers a Taskbar which can be oriented along the top, side or bottom of the screen, enabling users to get to hidden windows and applications. This Taskbar may either be hidden or constantly displayed. Describe at least two reasons why the method of triggering an auto-hidden Microsoft Taskbar is grossly inefficient.Explain why a Macintosh pull-down menu can be accessed at least five times faster than a typical Windows pull-down menu. For extra credit, suggest at least two reasons why Microsoft made such an apparently stupid decision.What is the bottleneck in hierarchical menus and what techniques could make that bottleneck less of a problem?Name at least one advantage circular popup menus have over standard, linear popup menus.What can you do to linear popup menus to better balance access time for all items?The industrial designers let loose on the Mac have screwed up most of the keyboards by cutting their function keys in half so the total depth of the keyboard was reduced by half a key. Why was this incredibly stupid?What do the primary solutions to all these questions have in common?
If you can’t answer the last question, you are going to have all kinds of trouble with the rest. You aren’t alone, of course, as evidence abounds that no one at Microsoft and fewer and fewer people at Apple could answer these questions.
Microsoft sort of has an excuse. They claimed from the beginning that a visual interface with the mouse and all that junk is inferior to a keyboard interface. They might have looked foolish if they had ever really tried to build a real GUI. By consistently sabotaging the visual interface, they have avoided such embarrassment.
What has happened at Apple is a little more mysterious. The industrial-design blunders are expected. Apple’s outside industrial designers have always hovered between cluelessness and hostility when it came to human factors. However, lately, Apple has been doing some pretty stupid stuff in-house, too. Like turning the rapid-access Labels menu into a hierarchical, slowing it down by five or ten times.
The Answers
Let's start out with a preview of the answer to question 10, Fitts' law, since all the others revolve around it. From First Principles of Design:
Fitts' Law: The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.
This little bit of obviousness is so often ignored, I sometimes wonder if it is on purpose. Usually, though, it is merely a leading indicator of overall ignorance, amplified by superstition and unsullied by facts or study.
Fortunately, readers of AskTog, being as tenacious as they are perspicacious, either know exactly what Fitts' Law is or will before they go to bed tonight.
Fitts' Law (properly spelled "Fitts's," per the rules of American English, though rarely done so) is simple, absolute, and immutable. Let's see how it pertains to the questions:
Question 1
Microsoft Toolbars offer the user the option of displaying a label below each tool. Name at least one reason why labeled tools can be accessed faster. (Assume, for this, that the user knows the tool and does not need the label just simply to identify the tool.)
Here are two answers. You may have more.
The label becomes part of the target. The target is therefore bigger. Bigger targets, all else being equal, can always be acccessed faster. Fitts' Law.
When labels are not used, the tool icons crowd together.
At first glance, it might appear advantageous to crowd the icons together, since it results in less distance among targets. However, the task here is not to hop from target to target. Instead, the point of origin when a user decides to access the toolbar will usually be somewhere in the content region, away from all the targets.
When the icons are spread apart, users have a "buffer zone" between icons, where an incorrect acquisition will result in no action. When the targets are crowded together, however, the user has more chance to initiate an unwanted action. To avoid this possibility, non-label users learn to slow way down. (Don't bother to ask them whether they've slowed down. They'll tell you it sped them up. Only the stopwatch knows for sure.)
Another way to make the targets bigger, of course, is to always choose large icons, rather than small. Pity the "power-user" with the 4x4-pixel icons who thinks he's going faster.
Question 2
You have a palette of tools in a graphics application that consists of a matrix of 16x16-pixel icons laid out as a 2x8 array that lies along the left-hand edge of the screen. Without moving the array from the left-hand side of the screen or changing the size of the icons, what steps can you take to decrease the time necessary to access the average tool?
Two separate steps may be necessary to average tool access time. Both are important.
Change the array to 1X16, so all the tools lie along the edge of the screen.Ensure that the user can click on the very first row of pixels along the edge of the screen to select a tool. There should be no buffer zone.
This second step is vital, and is so often ignored.
Remember that Fitts' Law states that access time is a function of distance and target size. If the target size is larger, then the time is reduced. It is reduced for a simple reason: the user need not slow down when approaching the target for fear of overshooting.
Now consider the screen edge. How deep is the target? If it were really only the one pixel it appears, it would be very hard to hit. However, the screen edge is, for all practical purposes, infinitely deep. It doesn't matter how fast that mouse is going when it hits the screen edge, that pointer absolutely will not overshoot. Having to hit a pixel two pixels in from the screen edge takes much longer than hitting the edge itself. Use that edge. It is your friend.
Question 3
A right-handed user is known to be within 10 pixels of the exact center of a large, 1600 X 1200 screen. You will place a single-pixel target on the screen that the user must stop upon and point to exactly. List the five pixel locations on the screen that the user can access fastest. For extra credit, list them in order from fastest to slowest access.
No, this is not a trick question. And the first part should be immediately answerable by any interaction designer. The extra credit question is not quite as simple. But first, the locations of the five "magic pixels":
The prime pixel is located at the current location of the mouse pointer. Popup menus make use of this pixel, showing up relative to the mouse pointer, no matter where the user may have moved it. This pixel requires zero travel and is, in effect, an infinitely large target—you just can't miss it.
The other four pixels are located, on average, as far away from the mouse pointer as you can get. Their distance, however, is more than made up for by their target size, which is infinite in two dimensions. These magic pixels are the four corners of the screen. Throw the mouse in any direction you desire and the odds are overwhelming that if you threw it with enough velocity, it will end up in one of those four corners. This presupposes a properly designed acceleration function for the mouse.
The key to the extra credit question is in the user's right-handedness. A right-handed user can access, in order of increasing difficulty, and starting with the point already mentioned:
The pixel immediately at the current cursor location: Click the mouse and you're done.The bottom-right corner.
The top-left corner.
The top-right corner.
The bottom-left corner.
If you hold the mouse in your right hand and move the mouse, using just your wrist and hand, in the four different directions, you will see how the mechanics of your arm leads to this. The answers for a left handed person are, of course, reversed.
These differences are relatively small compared to the power of the "magic pixels." All four corners should be used and used well.
Question 4:
Microsoft offers a Taskbar which can be oriented along the top, side or bottom of the screen, enabling users to get to hidden windows and applications. This Taskbar may either be hidden or constantly displayed. Describe at least two reasons why the method of triggering an auto-hidden Microsoft Taskbar is grossly inefficient.
Now these should have started getting easier.
Screen edges are prime real estate. You don't waste an entire edge that could be housing a couple of dozen different fast-access icons just for one object, the Taskbar.
The auto-hidden Taskbar is entirely too easy to display by accident. Users are constantly triggering it when trying to access something that is close to, but not at, the edge.
The Taskbar would not have any of these problems, yet be even quicker to get to if it were located at any one of four corners of the display. Throw the mouse up and to the left, for example, and you'll have a taskbar displayed. Fast access without the false triggering.
Question 5
Explain why a Macintosh pull-down menu can be accessed at least five times faster than a typical Windows pull-down menu. For extra credit, suggest at least two reasons why Microsoft made such an apparently stupid decision.
Microsoft, Sun, and others have made the decision to mount the menu bar on the window, rather than at the top of the display, as Apple did. They made this decision for at least two reasons:
Apple claimed copyright and patent rights on the Apple menu bar
Everyone else assumed that moving the menu bar closer to the user, by putting it at the top of the window, would speed things up.
Phalanxes of lawyers have discussed point 1. Let's deal with point two. The Apple menu bar is a lot faster than menu bars in windows. Why? Because, since the menu bar lies on a screen edge, it has an infinite height. As a result, Mac users can just throw their mice toward the top of the screen with the assurance that it will never penetrate and disappear.
Unless, of course, I'm testing them at the time. I did a test at Apple where I mounted one monitor on top of another, with the menu bar at the top of the lower display. The only way the user could get to the top monitor was by passing through the menu bar enroute.
I then gave users the task of repeatedly accessing menu bar items. When they first started out, they penetrated into the upper screen by around nine inches on average, just because their mouse velocity was so high. Then they learned they had to slow down and really aim for the menu. By the time they adjusted, their menu-access times became so ponderously slow, they took around the same time as the average Windows user.
The other "advantage" usually ascribed to a menu bar at the top of each window is that users always know where to look for the items pertaining to the task they are carrying out. This is silly. Users may do various tasks within a given window, and the menu items may change. Not only that, but a great many perverse applications exist, particularly in the Sun world, where the menu bar you need to access is not even in the window in which you are working! That is truly bizarre and mind-bending.
Microsoft applications are beginning to offer the possibility, in full-screen mode, of a menu bar at the top of the display. Try this out in Word or Excel. It is much faster. Microsoft's general cluelessness has never been so amply displayed, however, as it is in Microsoft Visual Studio, which has a menu bar at the top of the screen with a one-pixel barrier between the screentop and the menu. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Question 6
What is the bottleneck in hierarchical menus and what techniques could make that bottleneck less of a problem?
The bottleneck is the passage between the first-level menu and the second-level menu. Users first slide the mouse pointer down to the category menu item. Then, they must carefully slide the mouse directly across (horizontally) in order to move the pointer into the secondary menu.
The engineer who originally designed hierarchicals apparently had his forearm mounted on a track so that he could move it perfectly in a horizontal direction without any vertical component. Most of us, however, have our forarms mounted on a pivot we like to call our elbow. That means that moving our hand describes an arc, rather than a straight line. Demanding that pivoted people move a mouse pointer along in a straight line horizontally is just wrong. We are naturally going to slip downward even as we try to slide sideways. When we are not allowed to slip downward, the menu we're after is going to slam shut just before we get there.
The Windows folks tried to overcome the pivot problem with a hack: If they see the user move down into range of the next item on the primary menu, they don't instantly close the second-level menu. Instead, they leave it open for around a half second, so, if users are really quick, they can be inaccurate but still get into the second-level menu before it slams shut. Unfortunately, people's reactions to heightened chance of error is to slow down, rather than speed up, a well-established phenomenon. Therefore, few users will ever figure out that moving faster could solve their problem. Microsoft's solution is exactly wrong.
When I specified the Mac hierarchical menu algorthm in the mid-'80s, I called for a buffer zone shaped like a <, so that users could make an increasingly-greater error as they neared the hierarchical without fear of jumping to an unwanted menu. As long as the user's pointer was moving a few pixels over for every one down, on average, the menu stayed open, no matter how slow they moved. (Cancelling was still really easy; just deliberately move up or down.) Apple hierarchicals were still less efficient than single level menus, because of the added target, but at least they were less challenging than the average video game.
Sadly, the NeXT folks, when coming to Apple, copied Windows, rather than the Mac, in designing the hierarchical menu interface for OSX. Today's Mac hierarchicals are just as difficult to use as those of Windows.
Fitts' law is not just about target size and distance; it's also about the number of targets. The more targets, all else being equal, the longer the task will take. Hierarchicals automatically add one extra target. Making it difficult to enter a second-level menu adds an additional target, the second-level menu itself.
With my hierarchicals on the pre-OSX Macs, in most cases, the user did not even have to think about targetting the second-level menu. The menu opened, and the user simply aimed for the desired item. The only time the user had to consider the second-level menu separately was when there were so many items in the menu that the one the user was after was way up or way down the list, out of range of the allowable pivot for entry. Even then, users would typically arc along a more radical curve to reach their items in a single motion, rather than breaking things down into the jerky Etch-A-Sketch types of moves users typically make with today's hierarchicals.
When designing a user's required motions, reduce the number of motions needed along with both distance and required precision for each motion, then consider how your proposed scheme maps onto a human's ability to make those motions.
Question 7
Name at least one advantage circular popup menus have over standard, linear popup menus.
With the options displayed around you in a circle, you need only move a pixel or two to enter the "slice of pie" you want. Less travel, good target size. Good design.
They have a second advantage of feeding not only distance, but direction information into your motor memory. As long as the options are few enough, you will soon learn to move your mouse up and to the left to print, down and to the right to fax, etc. In fact, once these simple gestures are learned, you needn't even display the menu anymore, unless the user hesitates long enough to indicate they may be unsure. (This was borne out during the course of the Fabrik project at Apple in the late 1980s.)
Question 8
What can you do to linear popup menus to better balance access time for all items?
You can "Fittsize" them by making those items farther away from the mouse pointer larger. They need not literally be larger, since the user is not having any trouble seeing the farther items. Instead, the mapping of mouse-to-screen could be such that, as the user pulls further down the menu, more movement of the mouse is necessary to get a corresponding movement of the pointer. In effect, you are decoupling the behavioral map of the screen from the visual map.
Other decoupling tricks include setting up local gravity, so that once a mouse pointer gets near the target, it is drawn to the target. Barriers can be erected, so that once the mouse enters an object, it is difficult for it to pass through to the other side. This can be frustrating. Having a pressure-sensitive mouse that could "push through" if pushed down upon would enable the user either to be caught by the object or to flee to the territory beyond.
Reader Victor Zambrano has suggested another technique that will reduce acquisition time: Center the child menu, so that no item is more than total items/2 away from the mouse., as illustrated by Victor below:
Such a scheme, as Victor points out, doesn't work well with pull-down menus, unless the calling menu item is fairly far down the list. However, it is ideal for pop-up, contextual menus. Just ensure that the most important items are midway down the child menu, so they become the fastest to acquire.
Question 9
The industrial designers let loose on the Mac have screwed up most of the keyboards by cutting their function keys in half so the total depth of the keyboard was reduced by half a key. Why was this incredibly stupid?
The farther away the target is, the larger it must be to retain access speed. Not only did the industrial designers reduce the total size of the target, they reduced it in the very dimension that was most critical. Stupid, stupid, stupid. What they should have done was to curve the keyboard sharply upward toward the back end, so that merely lifting the finger a few degrees would access the numeric and function keys, aiding both precision and speed.
Question 10
What do the primary solutions to all these questions have in common?
You now know that it's Fitts' law. And you can use it in everyday design, whether you are building a new OS or laying out a new web page. When that default OK button, with only two characters, ends up really small, consider packing a few spaces in on either side to fill it out. If you have real control over your environment and are laying out a palette, make sure the user can access the tools by pinning against the screen edge. If you have menu bars at the top of the screen, use them! They are far more compact than a bunch of icons or buttons and, if you user-test, you will see they are faster. And if you work at Microsoft or Apple, consider listening to the people that have a clue when it comes to interaction design. They do exist. I've talked with them before. You might try talking with them, too.
I am indebted to Frank Ludolph and Craig Oshima for taking the test and finding a lot of additional correct answers, all of which I've attempted to include here.
If you would like to read more about Fitts' Law, I strongly recommend:
Walker, Neff and Smelcer, John (1990). "A Comparison of Selection Time from Walking and Bar Menus." Proceedings of CHI’90, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., pp. 221-225.
As for how you did? If you can answer 10 out of 10 now, with understanding, and are prepared to apply the lessons learned, that's all that matters.
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