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30th October 2006

Actual Browser Sizes

“For years we have seen statistics telling us the size of people’s screens. We know that 1024×768 is the dominant screen size, and that large resolution screens are coming strong. But, this is useless information. We do not want to know the size of a person’s screen. We want to know the size of the browser’s content area. A person might not use the browser maximized, and other elements — taskbar, toolbars and extensions — takes up valuable screen space.”

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30th October 2006

The Importance of User Experience

“Experience Dynamics has made this diagram available as a poster-size print, perfect for hanging in your office, cube or team-area. This was a fun diagram to work on. Frank Spillers, of Experience Dynamics saw my earlier Flickr diagrams and wanted to commission something similar with some general usability and user experience concepts. The idea was to emphasize the readability and approachability of the subject matter (keep it fun!) and not overload the map with too many concepts.”

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30th October 2006

Google AdSense for Domains

“AdSense for domains allows domain name registrars and large domain name holders to unlock the value in their parked page inventory. AdSense for domains delivers targeted, conceptually related advertisements to parked domain pages by using Google’s semantic technology to analyze and understand the meaning of the domain names.”

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