Press Articles With Short Quotes From Jakob Nielsen

Articles of varying length, but usually about interesting topics:: Red Herring Amazon's A9 Mystery, February 13, 2006; Computerworld Novell tweaks Linux for better graphics, video performance: It's hoping to make the OS more palatable to mainstream computer users, February 7, 2006; SDTimes With Rich Internet Apps, You Can’t Mix Metaphors, October 1, 2005; BusinessWeek For the Blind, a Welcoming Web, October 27, 2004; Baltimore Sun Newsletters revisit ownership stake, July 19, 2004; New Scientist Polite computers win users' hearts and minds , July 17, 2004; Computing Non-technical internet security is the key, July 2004; BusinessWeek Big Bang! Digital convergence is finally happening, June 12, 2004; New York Times Pssst, Computer Users . . . Want Some Candy? (about password security), April 25, 2004; Internet Works How to be a Trendspotter, April 2004; Computerworld Technology tools are helping companies monitor their reputations on the Internet, April 5, 2004; CIO The CIO Web Transaction Diet, April 2004; Baseline Gotcha! The Problems With Self-Service Checkout Systems, February 5, 2004; BtoB Demos enhance sales, February 2004; USA Today Simplicity rarely standard on the newest electronics, January 26, 2004; BtoB Getting visitor feedback, December 8, 2003; Sydney Morning Herald Macs vs PCs, October 10, 2003; ZDNet Developers gripe about IE standards inaction, October 9, 2003; Salon E-mail is broken (subscription required), October 2, 2003; New York Times Net Profiling Lures Advertisers, June 16, 2003 (also in the Straits Times where archives may be easier to access); New York Times Signs of a Revival for Online Ads, May 5, 2003; News.com New online ads squeeze news pages, April 21, 2003; News.com Victor: Software empire pays high price (the history of the Web browser), April 15, 2003; Silicon Valley Business Ink Hewlett-Packard tops survey of customer service among technology companies, April 11, 2003; Sydney Morning Herald Conference lines (about videoconferencing), March 25, 2003; USA Today Hello, tech designers? This stuff is too small, March 3, 2003; USA Today AOL Time Warner tightens ties, February 5, 2003; TechWeb Putting A Bad Interface On Things, January 17, 2003; ABC News Once-Mighty AOL Slipping Behind the Times, January 14, 2003; Editor & Publisher Newspaper Outsiders Offer Tips for Web Sites, January 9, 2003; Wall St. Journal Thinking Small, December 12, 2002 (paid subscription required for access); USA Today Online shopping now a better fit, December 3, 2002; The five deadly sins of unused software, Darwin, June 2002; Help Wanted: The Papers Fight Back, Newsweek, June 10, 2002; Employees See a Need For Cellphone Manners, Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2002; Tongue Tied: Speech still not ready for the Web, Darwin, May 7, 2002; Interactive TV: The big kludge, ZDNet, May 6, 2002; Pittman faces hard-sell ad dilemma, News.com, April 19, 2002; New Flood of For-Fee Web Services May Find Few Willing Customers, Wall St. Journal, April 8, 2002 (paid subscription required for access); A key technology for online profitability (about personalization), Financial Times, April 3, 2002; Online ads may soon take over your browser, USA Today, April 2, 2002; Technology in America, PC Magazine, March 12, 2002; Miss the Web's early days? Use this time machine to visit!, ZDNet, February 15, 2002; 10 top technologies for 2002, CFO Europe, Dec. 2001 /Jan. 2002; Dot-gov by design, Federal Computer Week, December 10, 2001; Dashing through the store is easy online, USA Today, December 5, 2001; Technology slump rooted in high-tech overload, The Sun, Nov. 15, 2001; Microsoft deal fails to ensure public has choice, The Independent (London), Nov. 8, 2001; E-business Convergence: The Melding of Internet and Intranet, Intranet Journal, Nov. 7, 2001; Demo show rounds up the latest in wireless wonders, USA Today, September 12, 2001; Instant messengers pick up speed, San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 1, 2001; Web Sites That Work, Information Week, Aug. 27 2001; Grow Your Site, Keep Your Users (about eBay's redesign), Computerworld, June 4, 2001; The free ride is over on Internet sites, San Jose Mercury News, May 20, 2001; High-tech quest for a user-friendly Web, USA Today, May 15, 2001 (also in San Jose Mercury News as Web surfers hunt like animals, researchers find); Portals at forefront of intranet evolution, InfoWorld, April 30, 2001; Scents and sensibility, The Economist, April 26, 2001; Gadgets offering 'convergence' show whole can be less than sum of parts, Wall Street Journal, April 25, 2001; Design Darwinism, The Economist, April 12, 2001; Internet sites offer their visitors real sense of place, USA Today, April 11, 2001; Humans take center stage on computer design, San Jose Mercury News, April 5, 2001; New tolls on the info highway: The Internet starts facing the reality of a free-lunchless world, U.S. News & World Report, April 9, 2001; Someone Has to Pay the Freight, BusinessWeek, March 26, 2001; Usability is the next challenge for the Net, The Independent (London), March 21, 2001; Thinking Outside the Box - The End-User View of Techo-Nirvana: Blink, Blink, Blink, Washington Post, March 19, 2001; Online Companies' Customer Service Is Hardly a Priority, New York Times, February 19, 2001; Right idea at the right time (Swatch's Internet strategy), The Industry Standard, January 31, 2001; From Ballots to Cockpits, Questions of Design, New York Times, January 23, 2001; Mobile markets fall flat for many consumers, CNet, January 18, 2001; Betamax of telephones: WAP phones are slow to access the internet and will be overtaken by competitors, Financial Times, January 16, 2001; The net on trial, Sunday Times, January 14, 2001; Web Advertisers Rethink Strategy (RealAudio), National Public Radio, Morning Edition, January 4, 2001; Plenty Wrong With WAP, Newsweek, December 18, 2000; Screen Wars: The folks who gave PCs mice and menus are back with some new tricks, Newsweek, December 11, 2000; Hold the Bells and Whistles: Think broadband will blaze a trail to a more exciting, multimedia Web? Think again, Business 2.0, November 28, 2000; Vote glitches highlight the need for simplicity,
Boston Globe, November 24, 2000; E-Tailers Transfer Shelf Space Into Cyberspace, AdWeek, November 6, 2000; When Competitors Are Partners, How Bare Do They Dare?, New York Times, October 25, 2000; Yahoo Beats Estimates, Takes Baby Step in Voice Services, Internet World, October 10, 2000; Online Publishers Learn to Love Micro-Payments -- a Little, Inside, October 10, 2000; The £340 Blackberry becomes the must-have gadget of the moment, The Independent, October 5, 2000; Small Fortunes: The Technology's Here - But Are Net Businesses Ready To Use It?, Internet World, October 1, 2000; Salon Spinoff Reportedly in the Works, Inside, September 27, 2000; Major Retailers Hope Audio Will Improve E-Commerce, Internet World, September 26, 2000; Numbed by Numbers, New York Times, September 21, 2000; Mobile Internet Products May Have Missed Their Target (report from DEMOmobile'2000), Los Angeles Times, September 11, 2000; Web site offers reviews of local businesses, Denver Post, August 17, 2000; Microsoft Sees Software 'Agent' as Way to Avoid Distractions, The New York Times, July 17, 2000 (access to the Times requires free registration - but worth it: great article on attentional interfaces); New 'Reputation Managers' Earn Trust in Cyberspace, Wall St. Journal, July 17, 2000 (access to WSJ.com requires paid subscription); VCR clocks tell time again, San Jose Mercury News, July 14, 2000; Orange's net vision, BBC, July 14, 2000; Bursting The WAP Bubble, Africa News Online, July 14, 2000; Disability Divide: Finding unexpected barriers online, many Internet users are pushing companies to make good on the promise of universal access, The Industry Standard, June 26, 2000; A Web Coup for FireDrop's Cloak-and-Dagger Man?, BusinessWeek, June 14, 2000; Staples Reinvents its Website, ComputerWorld, June 12, 2000; Browser Bashers, Forbes, May 15, 2000; Do cryptic sites equal lost opportunities?, UPSIDE, April 28, 2000; Journalism basics still needed in cyberspace, educators told, Freedom Forum, April 21, 2000; Read all about it: the growing possibilities for ebooks, The Irish Times, April 10, 2000; Throbbing e-mail - It's alive: Can a Zaplet tame your bloated inbox?, Salon, April 5, 2000; Clued In? Sign On! (about the Cluetrain Manifesto), Fast Company, March 2000; Does Web link or isolate us?, The Beacon Journal, February 18, 2000; Your First $20 Free!, Scientific American, February 2000; Let's Get Small, The Industry Standard, January 21, 2000; Making it click, Canadian Business, January 2000; Santa Flaws: Why shoppers aren't having a very merry dot.com Christmas. Forbes, December 27, 1999; Closing the Windows on MS, WIRED News, November 27, 1999; The Unbearable Speed of Being, The Industry Standard, October 1999; GE touts automated customer support in bricks-to-clicks moveInfoWorld, October 11, 1999; Superhuman Speech Machine, Wired News, October 2, 1999; Wanted: Better Job Listings, Business Week, September 20, 1999; AOL Struggles to Stand Out in Cyber-Crowd, The Denver Post (originally from Los Angeles Times, September 6, 1999; also in Nando Times); Portal Pretense: The recent splurge on portal exposure has left many ecommerce companies searching for a new life, Business 2.0, September 1999; Intranet 'done on the cheap', The Press (New Zealand), August 31, 1999; Amazon.com feature fuels privacy fears, USA Today, August 26, 1999; Digital Radar: E-Books, New Media Magazine, August 1999; Closing the Distance: Instant Messaging Is Talk of Online World, Washington Post, July 6, 1999; Learning to write for the Web, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 27, 1999; Silicon Spin with John C. Dvorak (TV Show), June 10, 1999; Cyborg Dreaming, Village Voice, June 2, 1999; Making The Internet Accessible For Disabled, TechWeb, May 25, 1999; I'm gonna sue your ass!, Red Herring, May 1999; The Question of Web Reach: Dueling Columnists, IT Manager's Journal, May 18, 1999; AltaVista to Sell Advertisers Spots in Search Lists, Washington Post, April 16, 1999; The missing millions... or how to win women to the Web, The Guardian (U.K.), April 15, 1999; Untangling the habits of Web users, USA Today, April 14, 1999; Internet Retailers Hide True Costs of Purchases, The New York Times, April 5, 1999; Gates' Efforts as Management Guru Misfire in New Book, Los Angeles Times, March 29, 1999 (also in The Denver Post); New software to block on-line ads, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, March 12, 1999 (RealVideo format); Animating the Ad, The Industry Standard, February 15, 1999; The Net's Brand-New Brand, The Industry Standard, February 12, 1999; Online, the Customer Isn't Always Right, The New York Times, January 12, 1999; '99: A Year to Make Good on Electronic Commerce, The New York Times, December 29, 1998; Web sites cater to connections in 1999 (by offering different visitor experiences based on bandwidth), InfoWorld, December 23, 1998; Finding a Language for the Web: Online Gurus Debate Internet Grammar, Editor & Publisher, November 13, 1998; New-media gurus find cyber punctuation ... a slippery proposition, ZDNN, November 12, 1998; 24-hour Medium With 18-hour Staffing, Editor & Publisher, October 5, 1998; New view to a kill (about virtual reality), The Guardian (U.K.), September 17, 1998; A legitimate stab in the dark, The Ottawa Citizen September 9, 1998 (about outsourced Web services); Look ma, no ink!, Salon Magazine, September 2, 1998; Linux, an Alternative to Microsoft Windows, Shows Value of Free Software, Los Angeles Times, August 24, 1998 (access to the LA Times archives requires payment); Making Your Web Site Accessible: Barriers (and How to Remove Them), Seybold Report, July 15, 1998; Top 5 Web Authoring Lies, Ziff-Davis AnchorDesk, June 18, 1998; Annette's Internet Speedometer: How Fast Is It Really Growing?, Ziff-Davis AnchorDesk, May 27, 1998; Why we don't get the full picture on frames, Sydney Morning Herald, May 26, 1998; Is there a special way to write for a Web page?, Yahoo! Internet Life, Surf Guru column, May 18, 1998; The simpler Web gets the user, Sydney Morning Herald, March 31, 1998; How to Make Visitors Love Your Site, Ziff-Davis AnchorDesk, March 20, 1998; Lego-like assembly can make Web apps a snap, PC Week, January 12, 1998; Promising Web tools require new thinking, about XML, Dan Gillmor's column, San Jose Mercury News, December 7, 1997; Award Winners: Our Editors Present the top Corporate Websites, Fortune Magazine Technology Buyer's Guide Winter 1998; Top 25 Executives: No. 1, Scott McNealy, Computer Reseller News November 17, 1997; Time for print to recognize Web as part of its future, MacWeek October 2, 1997; Trying to Make a Connection (about Web advertising), Los Angeles Times September 29, 1997 (access to the LA Times archives is limited to paying subscribers); Making the Web a Friendly Place to Visit, The New York Times July 27, 1997 (site access requires user registration); Taking Computers to Task: Coming generations of computers will be more fun and engaging to use. But will they earn their keep in the workplace?, the relation between computer technology and user productivity, Scientific American, July 1997; Animation as Decoration and Communication -- How to grab attention and deliver your message with the same animation, NetGuide Magazine, June 1997; Corporate rebels, WIRED Magazine May 1997; Download times take another bite, The Globe and Mail of Canada, May 1997; Lifestreams, about temporal UI metaphors, WIRED Magazine February 1997; Report from the WWW'5 Conference, Publish Magazine August 1996; Do Fatter Browsers Spell Extinction?, Interactive Week July 1996; Software's holy grail: No-fuss clicking is what consumers need most, BusinessWeek June 1996; Finding the Right Art Talent for Your Site's Needs, WebWeek April 1996; The Internet is starting to grow up, EE Times June 1995