At LAb[au], we run our own house-made mailinglist software, which we use to regularly update our 4K users about next performances and events with a graphically appetizing newsletter. The tool is in constant improvement since five years and I recently added a way to track opened-email statistics through a simple technique : an img tag [...]

Let’s face it, most people play free poker online because they are either trying to improve their skills to play poker for money. Whatever you motivation for playing free poker is, while you are there you might as well take full advantage of it. The best way to spend your time while you play poker [...]

One of the vital challenges of internet and the most complex issue of electronic medium is to formalize or create the notion of presence, of “being there”. Check out this firefox extension: Me.dium (description by Katherine Yee) http://me.dium.com/ Me.dium is a plug-in for the Firefox Browser that enables “social browsing”. It occupies a space on [...]

I think i’ve found the ultimate rss feader. Lightweight, tiny, yet highly configurable, visually pleasing, and giving direct access to information. Great usability especially, as it does a good job in helping you digest the great floods of information in a very short time. And it’s completely free too. KlipFolio.com Here is how it looks [...]

In the fight against spam, web developers couldn’t do much except installing additional software like spamassassin on their webservers, which is really the webhoster ‘s job. And that doesn’t stop all of it, far from it. Especially if you inherit a website that is all in html, contains thousands of pages, and a lot include [...]

Interesting usability study on Email newsletters. “In Jakob Nielsen’s opinion e-mail newsletters are still the best way to maintain customer relationships.” Read it all here: GUUUI – Usability of newsletters and news feeds

Very insightful article on how developing ajax powered websites/applications should not get you in trouble with search engines if you follow some simple rules… SEO Speedwagon: ajax and SEO

A customer of mine asked to send flash animations in emails. I told him it’s not the wisest thing to do, because no one can guarantee that your users will actually see it. Why’s that ? Email clients Well in this global market you just can’t expect everyone to wear the same clothes, now, can [...]