Blogs

• Main Page – Ajax Patterns
  Michael Maehmoff’s Ajax patterns both visual and programming patterns.
  (tags: ajax javascript patterns programming reference web2.0 ria)

The second Nitobi Hack Day is coming up Feb 9th at our office. Doors open at 9am, Hacking Starts at 10am and Judging will be at 6pm. There’s an iPod Nano Video up for the best app. Sign up on upcoming. You can hack on whatever you want Ajax, Rails, Python, AIR…it’s all free game. Lunch will be provided.

• Adobe AIR set to take flight at Nasdaq, charity
  “Adobe Systems Inc. is expected to release its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) next month, ending the wait of organizations such as Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. and American Cancer Society Inc.”
  (tags: air air1.0 release ria computerworld adobe desktop)

• Geeking with Greg: Cheap eyetracking using mouse tracking
  Very cool study that shows 20%-60% correlation between eye position and mouse position.
  (tags: eyetracking interface mouse tracking vision webdev Usability Design Research toblog robotreplay)
• Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  Jakob Nielsen and a bunch of his typical inflammatory remarks on web2.0, Ajax and rich internet applications. More on this soon.
  (tags: web2.0 usability webdesign ajax commentary business design ecommerce toblog)
• Adobe – Player Licensing : Search Engine SDK FAQ
  The Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK is designed for search engine application engineering teams. Users of the SDK can add Flash file decompression, parsing, and indexing features to their server-based search applications.
  (tags: flash seo adobe google sdk search accessibility optimization programming)
• Juggernaut – a push library for Rails that uses Flash
  “The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection and push data to the client. In other words your app can have a real time connection to the server with the advantage of instant upda
  (tags: rails ajax ruby xmlsocket javascript rubyonrails flash swf push comet programming development toblog)
• About the Book – Designing Interfaces
  A great book and accompanying website on user interface patterns for web and software in general.
  (tags: design interface patterns ui usability webdesign gui designinginterfaces oreilly toblog applications books)
• Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
  A great pattern library from Yahoo. Originally put together by Bill Scott I believe. This is a great resource for Ajax developers and designers.
  (tags: Design patterns webdesign yahoo usability ajax web2.0 yui toblog)
  Current Mortgage Rates

InsideRIA is now officially live! I’m really stoked to be a part of this joint effort by O’reilly and Adobe. We’re going to be covering a wide range of topics including design, development and standards for RIAs. Even though Adobe is sponsoring this portal no technology is off limits so Ajax, Silverlight, Google Gears, Prism, etc are all in bounds. Of course there will be a healthy amount of chatter about Flash, Flex and AIR as these key tools in the RIA kit. I personally hope learn and share a lot about user experience, user interface patterns and new forms of analytics we’re going to need a world with more and more RIAs.

We’re
running a survey this month to gather information from web
designers and developers about the tools and platforms they’re using. It’s quite focused on development of Ajax user interfaces.

If you can spare three minutes, I’d appreciate it if you href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bpDcVkz3gpWM1sBwcNAAMg_3d_3d">completed
the survey. It’s pretty brief–14 multiple choice and short answer
questions. One person who does will win an iPod Nano. We’ll be
publishing the survey results in February. So everyone wins really:)

• YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.
  Presentations, clips, and instructional videos on using Google Analytics, Website Optimizer, and AdWords to improve your marketing and website.
  (tags: adwords analytics conversion ecommerce google googleanalytics webanalytics video tutorials tips SEO stats marketing metrics)
• DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix on Vimeo
  (tags: activism animation socialnetworking standards video dataportability data social)

• Fleet Street PR: 42 Top Social Media Tips And Tools
  “Over the last six months or so I’ve come across hundreds of useful tips and tools online. Rather than keeping them to myself, I thought I’d share a few of them with you.” And RobotReplay was listed in the analytics section.
  (tags: tips tools web2.0 socialmedia analytics robotreplay)

• Too many choices?
  “…people who strive for maximization are more prone to depression and perfectionism, more likely to compare themselves negatively with others and more prone to regret than those who use satisficing strategies.” Very interesting indeed. Keeping this in
  (tags: behavior psychology research study usability choices happiness satisfice)

• Interaction Design Pattern Library – Welie.com
  A great collection of user interface patterns by Welie. Check em out.
  (tags: patterns design webdesign usability ui reference web guidelines graphics gallery designpattern examples userinterface webdev)