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Facebook is tapping users to do all the hard work for them. They are picking and choosing markets (Spanish was opened first, two weeks ago; today German and French were launched) and asking just a few users to test out their collaborative translation tool

”The EXPECTATION ECONOMY is an economy inhabited by experienced, well-informed consumers from Canada to South Korea who have a long list of high expectations that they apply to each and every good, service and experience on offer.”

”It is in fact a totally unofficial tag, which nonetheless may help immensely in giving credit (whereand if credit is due) and keeping track of who your links are coming from.” This is what I’ve been looking for quite a long time!

Some things just suck, don’t they? This piece is hilarious and almost too true.

A blog written in order to give the readers a feel for the professional lives of web page designers – how they got into web design, what web design tricks they use, what their sources of inspiration are, what they think about the future of the Web etc.

”Social media is not the conversation. It’s the room in which you hold the conversation. It still comes down to saying, doing, or producing something valuable for your customer.”

”A defining idea behind Wikipedia, Facebook, and blogging platforms is that if you give people the right tools, they’ll use them to create wonderful things in collaboration with each other or with the organization that provides the catalyst.”

The 4 Cs of Good Form Design: Clear, Concise, Clever and Contextual.

Rumour has it that Nokia and Facebook are working on porting the social network on to Nokia handsets in a major way, and that the Facebook placement could be as prominent as the YouTube button on the main screen of iPhone.

This could be simple, but the writer makes it sound hard. What are the ingrediences of a social software?

Communications technology and face-to-face interactions are complements like salt and pepper, rather than substitutes like butter and margarine. Paradoxically, your cell phone, email, and networks are making it more attractive to meet people in the flesh.

You’re right, I didn’t. But now I do and have a goal to pursue for.

A list of must have applications that should enlighten the use of your Nokia N95 and give you even more pleasure.

”Usability, by its nature, requires some humility. The first thing you have to do to really understand people is to admit that you don’t know everything. Ultimately, the science of usability comes down to a fairly broad question: What do people want?”

Direct experience with products puts people in a concrete, practical mode of thought, focusing on what it would actually be like to use the product. In contrast, indirect experience gets people thinking more abstractly.

”You’re thinking about creating or extending your customer or member community because it’s central to increased word of mouth and evangelism, but community is a broad term. What type of community, exactly, do you want to create?”

It is a continually self-evaluating field, but one content to let the process of asking be sufficient. Similarly, it is a field unwilling to cling to any particular tool, knowing that the selection of the right tool is in fact the most important step.

I think I might put these to use immediately.