Archive for May 2006

Google Friends Newsletter Helping you avoid RSI

I received the Google Friends Newsletter and at the bottom they mention this interesting to all of us.

” Avoiding RSI
If you’re like a lot of people who work with computers, your desk
chair molds perfectly to your body, and your mouse and keyboard are as
broken-in as an old baseball glove. And if that is the case, then you
might be as interested as we were to read the latest blog post from our
staff doctor, Taraneh Razavi. In the post, Dr. Razavi weighs in on
repetitive stress injury, or RSI, giving us a sense of just how
widespread a problem it is and sharing some useful tips on how we can
avoid it. ”
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/avoiding-rsi.html

Googling Google by Garett Rogers

Calling International Rescue! by ZDNet‘s Garett Rogers — The year is 2065, the children of Larry Page and Sergy Brin decide to create a secret organization with bigger and more important goals to pursue than simply organizing the worlds information. Thunderbirds Virgil and Scott, sons of the most powerful men on earth, form a team whose mission is to save the world [...]

Google Music Store

Great to have this move. ‘But Hey Google, shouldn’t be better to say the song or artist name and Google Music Voice Search solution got the songs played ?

Cool no ! Google Do It. And it can be one of the best additional Search solutions in the next era from Dr. KAI in China.

Google Music Store soon ? 

User Experience Research – Usability eye Tracking

  • STEPS AND THINGS TO DO
  • Early-stage user research methods such as contextual inquiry, paper prototyping, card sorting, personas.
  • Working with product teams to ensure that user research findings are tracked and acted on.
  • Design and analysis of experiments or surveys.
  • International user research or remote user studies.
  • Accessibility and universal design.
  • Analysis of web server log data.
  • Web design/HTML.
  • Programming/scripting.
  • Eye-tracking.
  • Testing applications for mobile devices.
  • On-line communities and social computing.

Google Video Ads Pay click to Play

Pay to Play or click and play Google Video Ads 

Click and Play

Initially, the video spots will be available only to advertisers in the U.S., Canada, and Japan.

The ads can be targeted using Google’s contextual keyword technology or at specific sites. Unlike other video ads that begin to play when users open a Web page, Google’s video ads will start only after consumers have chosen to click on them.

Google anticipates that the video ads will attract major advertisers in the automotive, consumer goods, entertainment, and travel industries, but the company believes the new format will appeal to smaller vendors as well.