Saturday, January 12, 2008

10 Best Intranets of 2008

Bank of America, US
Bankinter S.A., Spain
Barnes & Noble, US
British Airways, UK
Campbell Soup Company, US
Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation, US
IKEA North America Service, LLC, US
Ministry of Transport, New Zealand
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Australia
SAP AG, Germany

Source: useit.com

Saturday, December 8, 2007

.mobi

.mobi (also known as DotMobi) is a mobile top-level domain approved by ICANN and managed by the mTLD global registry dedicated to delivering the Internet to mobile devices via the Mobile Web.

DotMobi domain names were made available for public registration on September 26, 2006.So far more than 700000 .mobi domain names have been registered..mobi has already made headlines with several 6-figure domain sales, including,
Flowers.mobi for $200,000
Sportsbook.mobi for $129,800
Fun.mobi for $100,000

These results demonstrate the strong role .Mobi is playing in driving the creation of mobile content on the Internet.

Since 100% of .mobi sites must be optimized for viewing on a mobile phone, the main advantage of .mobi, from the users' perspective, is that they are guaranteed a site optimized for their smaller screens alone.

It is financially backed by Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Telecom Italia Mobile, Orascom Telecom, G Samsung, Ericsson, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefónica Móviles, SM Association , Hutchison Whampoa, Syniverse Technologies.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Bad Usability in Road Dividers

Look at this Picture , Road divider has no reflector to indicate that there is Divider and the height is also more, number of accidents occur due to this reason, Many NH roads have the similar problem.

Consider a scenario when the driver is coming at a good speed in that road during night time, the road is smooth and there is no divider or anything so he continues to go with the same speed or more, suddenly he sees a divider which is only a few meters away from him and he could not stop or slow the vehicle finally he ends up with an accident which is similar to the image above.

If there is a reflector in the divider or board he would have seen that much before coming near to the divider and avoided the accident.