Sticking an Ad Where Users Are Already Engaging

There's one area of your site that if you include it, users have no choice but to engage, if they wish to continue with the task they're trying to complete. That would be the CAPTCHA, other wise known as that annoying, (often times barely legible) word you have to recreate in a box, so that the site knows you're human.

Google Book Downloads Compatible on More Devices

Google is now offering downloads of public domain books in Google Books in the EPUB format, which is an open and free industry standard for electronic books. This format is supported by a wide variety of different applications, so it should be easy for many people to access literature this way. Users can download the public domain books by simply clicking the "download" button in…

Google Lets Businesses Speed Up Videos

Google has introduced a feature for Google Video for Business that allows viewers to adjust the playback speed. There is a speed control button/slider on the video player that can be used to speed up or slow down a clip. If you're unfamiliar with Google Video for Business, it's part of Google Apps Premiere and Education editions, and lets users share rich video information, keep…

Teens: Tweeting Or Not?

While the subject is often debated, there is mounting evidence that the Internet community’s desire to pin the label of ‘early adopter’ for new technology advances on the youngest users may be misguided. Earlier this month we asked the question as to whether teens use Twitter and it looks like the answer is, for the most part, not so much.