This is an exciting development for everyone interested in user experience design.
Rosenfeld Media – Publisher of user experience design books
Founded in late 2005, Rosenfeld Media is a publishing house dedicated to developing short, practical, and useful books on user experience design. Our books will explain the design and research methods that web professionals need to make informed design decisions.
Unlike traditional publishers, we won’t operate as a one-way pipeline. We’d love for you to read our books, but we also invite you to improve them and suggest ideas for future ones. Here’s how.
Where are the books?
They’re coming! Our first book—on search analytics—is due out in mid-2006. But the rest of the catalog remains to be determined; you can help us determine which books we should publish.
THE SOLOMON KEY AND BEYOND: UNAUTHORIZED DAN BROWN UPDATE (Nimble Books) is now live on Google Book Search.
I switched to Open Office for a couple of weeks. My conclusion was that the next time I buy a personal computer, it will be an Intel Mac laptop with Open Office. Open Office has plenty of functionality and is better organized for the power user than Office 12.
Alas, if you already have Microsoft Office, it doesn’t really make sense to run Open Office in parallel, because converting old Office docs into OO and saving them back into Office inevitably introduces some small but annoying friction, and it doesn’t make sense to save all your existing Office .doc files into Open Office’s cleaner dedicated format, where you can’t open them with Office.
This is pretty impressive!
Coremetrics
Coremetrics™, the leading provider of hosted web analytics and precision marketing solutions, today announced that Alibris, the premiere destination for used, new, and out-of-print books, is using the Coremetrics A/B testing platform to improve visitor conversion and site usage. One of Internet Retailer’s “Top 100″ largest online retailers, Alibris is the choice of millions of book lovers looking to buy rare and used books.
“When you have over 50 million books, helping a customer find a signed copy of an out-of-print book can be a challenge. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our user experience and make Alibris the easiest place to buy used books,” said Brian Elliott, chief operating officer at Alibris. “A/B testing lets us manage risk by measuring customer demand earlier in our development process. Rather than rely on subjective evaluations, we can use Coremetrics to quantify the impact on visitor conversion before committing additional resources.”
Coremetrics offers the only hosted web analytics and precision marketing solution designed to meet the marketing, merchandising, and site-design needs of online retailers. Alibris used Coremetrics A/B testing and real estate reporting to see if changing the presentation of its Narrow your results search functionality would increase usage. Moving the option to a more prominent position had a dramatic impact—500 percent more clicks and a 400 percent increase in sales. Before the change, only a fraction of Alibris customers used the powerful search tool. Today, far more customers use the tool to refine their search results by book attributes such as signed, hardcover, or first edition. Coremetrics reports also uncovered the need to refine the search tool’s language to help customers find that special hard-to-find book.
CNN.com – Bush, Pakistani PM hold ‘wide-ranging’ talks – Jan 24, 2006
“The relationship with Pakistan is a vital relationship for the United States,” Bush said. “I want to thank the prime minister and thank the president for working closely with us on a variety of issues. We’re working closely to defeat the terrorists that would like to harm America and harm Pakistan.”
Bush announced that he would visit Pakistan and India in March.
John Kerry keeps writing me whiny letters. I’d like to see him tell George Bush: “Bring Back Osama, or Don’t Come Back.”
The President of the United States is paying a state visit to the country where mass murderer Osama Bin Laden is living. How about hopping into a helicopter, George, and heading out to the Afghan border?
CNN.com – ‘Magnum P.I.’ coming to big screen – Jan 24, 2006
Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”) has signed on to write and direct the big-screen adaptation of “Magnum P.I.,” the 1980s series that made Tom Selleck a star.
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Thurber is not making a spoof but rather something akin to the tone of the show, which mixed humor and danger. The story line for the Universal Pictures film sees Magnum, with the help of his former military pals, searching for a missing buddy.
Wow, this is really underwhelming.
- “Dodgeball”?
- No Tom Selleck?
- “searching for a missing buddy”?
Snoozefest.
Nice weird expression from a visibly aging (but curiously well preserved) Stephen King.
AMC fans take note:
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Sydney Penny, pictured, plays the role of St. Bernadette Soubirous in the soon to be released film, “The Passion of Bernadette,” about Bernadette’s life after the Blessed Mother appeared to her at Lourdes, France in 1858. Ignatius Press, one of the largest Catholic book publishers in the U.S. and the primary English language publisher of the works of Pope Benedict XVI, is sponsoring the national premiere of the film Feb. 11, 2006
Kola Boof Proves Herself
Sudan’s top novelist Kola Boof proves that she was Osama Bin Laden’s mistress in startling detail as her autobiography, “Diary of a Lost Girl” (0-9712019-8-6) finally hits America on February 1st.
Is this a put-on?
PublishersWeekly.com
PW:
Borders Group announced earlier today that Greg Josefowicz will retire as chairman, president and CEO by the end of fiscal 2007, which ends Feb. 3, 2008. Josefowicz joined Borders in November 1999 as president and CEO and was promoted to chairman in 2002. Josefowicz, 53, gave no reason for his decision to step down.
Borders is in play.
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