Contents Nexus Q Hacks • Google “Search As You Type” Service • GroupMe • Coding Horror Likes Win8 • Amazon Same Day • Hate your Mobile Carrier • Stone Skipping Robot Nexus Q Hacks The Google Nexus Q entertainment sphere has only been out a few days but enterprising experimenters have already created some notable…
It’s hard for some people involved with web/app design and development to accept that they can’t rely on intuition, judgment or qualitative testing methods to reliably predict the success of a new feature. We tracked experts’ predictions and they were wrong most of the time. Read on for the right way to measure success.
Contents Utrip Mini-Review • Kayak IPO On • Priceline v. Expedia Semi-opaque booking • How to Pay Abroad • The Shard Mini-Review: Startup Utrip Aims to Simplify Trip Planning Seattle-based trip planning site Utrip offers an interesting user experience design. Users first choose a destination city and travel dates. They then set their preferences for…
Contents Nexus 7 Tablet Reviews & Teardown • Netflix Beats Cable • Yahoo Facebook Make Up • Amazon Smartphone? • Amazon Web Service Outage • RIM Mismanagement • Microsoft Mismanagement • Windows 8 Upgrades • 3D Printing Breakout • Art and Mathematics Nexus 7 Tablet Gets Good Marks Reviews Engadget says the new Google Nexus…
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments: Five Puzzling Outcomes Explained by Ron Kohavi, Alex Deng, Brian Frasca, Roger Longbotham, Toby Walker and Ya Xu. There are a lot of people doing online A/B and multivariate testing these days, but few of them bring as much analytic rigor to the process as Ronny Kohavi and his colleagues. Ronny…
Contents Hipmunk • THack • Roomkey • Virtual Valet • Social Hospitality Infographic • Airbus Made in USA • Frommer’s Deals • Dangerous Travel Aspirations Hipmunk in the News Forbes: Hipmunk the Best Basing his opinion on ease of use and personal relevance of results, a Forbes writer claims “Hipmunk is the best travel site…
Lindsey Stirling is a talented young musician who improbably combines dance and violin in her performances. She was good enough to be a quarterfinalist on season 5 of America’s Got Talent in 2010. She was told that she wouldn’t be able to build a professional career based on her approach—her style of music was unmarketable.…
Contents Google Nexus Q and Nexus 7 • Google Search Improvements • SoMoLo—Local Biggest • Amazon Competes with Its Merchants • Top 100 Sites All Track • Apple v. Samsung Tablet Injunction • Disruption: Paintball, Dance and Violin Google I/O Conference Product Announcements: Nexus Q Player Wants to Entertain You The Nexus Q is a…
Contents Users Google Hotels More Than Flights • Orbitz Integrated App • Kayak Same Day Mobile Booking • Priceline Tweaks Blind Booking • Momondo Flight Search Redesign • The Great Orbitz Mac Brouhaha • Hotels Fumble Pricing Transparency • Redesigning the Airline Food Cart • Travel Aspirations: Top Budget Destinations PhoCusWright: Travelers Use Search More for…
Contents Expedia a Major Ad Buyer • 3D Printing a Disruptive Meta-Trend • Surface Tablet Secrecy • New Internet Domain Land Rush • Another MacBook Pro Review • Apple Drops “Do Nothing” Security Advice • Appleserfs • Online Maps Market • SSD Prices Down • Quadrotors Steal the Show at Cannes Google, Amazon, EBay and Expedia…
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