Archive for January, 2010
The Boulder Creek Inspires People..even to Pee!
Today, walking by the Boulder Creek, I saw some people doing a photo shoot. It happens often around here, especially when young couples take their engagement pictures. It was inspiring. Apparently, I was not the only one inspired by it. The man in the orange coat decided to pee in the river next to the [...]
Free Wifi and Toolbars are Used to Monitor the Pages you Visit
If your browser sports a toolbar (e.g., from Yahoo, Google, MyWebSearch, …), you are using Google’s Chrome browser or the free WiFi that they offer in Airports an planes, somebody is gathering data on the pages you visit, how long you stay on them, and what else you do online. This is the sometimes shocking [...]
Prostheses Technology, the amazing progresses of last years
Losing my eyesight, my legs or arms has always been among my biggest fears. I would love to be able to do research 24/7 in all the possible fields and help to improve the life of the less fortunates, but my knowledge in the medical field is very limited for now and I still have [...]
Search Results: 65% of Users’ Attention goes on First Three
According to a 2004 eye/click tracking study (Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search) done at Cornell University on Google results page, users spend about 50% of the time on the page reading the snippet of the first and second results, and 14% to read the third one. Here is the percentage of time [...]
Make your Wii play DVD and Nintendo Games
According to some statistics the large majority of Wii’s bought stop being used after about 6 months. Nintendo’s own statistics reveal that the revolutionary Wii Fit is used on average only 4 times by each customer. Pretty lame. But I can understand them: at first, you love the games and the innovative controller, but then [...]
