A whopping 82% of people add Facebook friends because they know them in real life. On the flip side, 55% remove friends for "offensive comments" and 41% remove friends because they realize that they don't know them very well. This suggests that most Facebook users don't really know the people they friend in the first place
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Sausage is a jQuery UI widget for contextual pagination. It complements long or infinite-scrolling pages by keeping the user informed of her location within the document.
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Jolene is a toolkit which provides a DOM (Document Object Model) of HTML documents to Java. This gives developers a pure view unlike JSP, ASP, Velocity. Use plain HTML documents to generate your website and swap them out without changing server side code.
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Jaiku and JotSpot are examples of a phenomenon I call the Google black hole. Despite Google's reputation for fostering new companies, many services that nestle into Mountain View's welcoming bosom are never heard from again. The pattern: Company gets bought out. Users rejoice. Company lies fallow for months. Users grow impatient. Company's employees get farmed out to other Google projects. Company lies fallow for more months. Users get even more impatient ...
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Testing ever-more users in card sorting has diminishing returns, but you should still use three times more participants than you would in traditional usability tests.
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