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Bookmark Magic from Emma’s Developers

Those of us on the development team here at Emma spend a lot of time online. Many of us have been using the Internet in some form since the days of dial-up BBSes and acoustic couplers.

We like to think we have seen a lot of the web and that we are familiar with the best of the best. To that end, we invite you to agree or disagree with what each of us thinks is one great website. Some are work-related, if only tangentially, some are simply cool applications which we admire from a technology point of view, and some are just great ways to explore the things that interest us away from the computer. Yes, we are occasionally allowed to step away from building new features.

Hernan gets great ideas and advice from Jakob Nielsen’s UseIt.
“About 10 years ago, I attended a presentation given by Jakob where he discussed the importance of information architecture and website usability long before anybody really cared about those things. He provided some great tips on building websites that will attract users by making it simple for them to find the information they want, instead of just foisting a whole bunch of press releases and unnecessary graphics upon them. His website has an archive of all his posts since 1995 (under “All Alertbox columns”) and is a great resource for anybody looking to publish a web page or Continue reading “Bookmark Magic from Emma’s Developers” »