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8th August 2006

Poynter’s Complete Waste of Time

“The Poynter Institute is about to launch the research phase of its run-up to launching version 4.0 of its perennially popular game, The Poynter Institute’s Complete Waste of Time. Many of you may know it by its more common name, the EyeTrack study. It’s a game where knowledge is fun! — knowledge of utterly useless, anecdotal and irresponsibly non-applicable trivia about the viewing habits of website visitors. Let’s play along.”

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8th August 2006

Pixelated Mosaic Edges

“This tutorial will show you a way to easily create a pixelated mosaic-type effect for use on edges or borders or whatever you want. I first noticed this effect with the (animated) launch of the new Iconfactory website. I was later browsing through my normal list of bookmarked sites and noticed that SimpleBits has been doing the same thing for a while now. It’s a pretty neat effect that can be recreated with a few filters and adjustment layers.”

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8th August 2006

clickdensity

“clickdensity records the position of every click on a page, building up a virtual heat map of visitor activity. But that’s just the start. It also provides user behaviour analysis, segmentation and tracking. Together with a host of other functionality, clickdensity will transform your approach to usability and information architecture.”

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