It’s both and 2013 will be the year it happens. If you’re interested at all in TV you can’t miss rumors of the (real) Apple TV or the rising sales of the actual Apple TV as the most popular “accessory” for iPhones and iPads (10 million sold). We also hear that Intel’s announced its working on its own…
Category: product area
Posts on various product areas that I’ve worked on including sports, TV media, eCommerce, search, and mobile apps.
1000 channels but what should you watch?
This week my team here at Comcast Silicon Valley put out a new iOS app aimed at solving the age-old problem of finding something on TV but in a fresh new way. What’s On by Comcast Labs shows XFINITY TV customers, in a visual way, what’s on right now sorted by a proprietary algorithm that puts…
What’s on my iPhone
Preston Smalley discusses his most used iPhone apps: Facebook, NY Times, Mint, eBay and Google as well as the ones he wishes existed or were better: LinkedIn, Tom Tom, Skype, PowerPoint, and Fitbit.
Yahoo’s Elegant Interaction Design in Search
I read in Techcrunch about Yahoo!’s new improvements to search results. What caught my attention was how elegant the search suggestion widget operates. Unlike other search suggestion sites which annoyingly get in the way all the time with their smarts, this one senses hesitation in the search box and only then displays the results–that way…
Participation Frameworks
Ross Mayfield pointed out a great new framework that Charlene Li at Forrester recently released called the Participation Ladder. It assigns quantitatively how many people in the US online population are mapped to various social engagement levels on websites. I’m actually quite surprised at how active the online population (creators & critics) is portrayed in…
New shopping site, DoorOne
Shopping.com launched today a new comparison shopping site called DoorOne in the UK, France, Germany and Austrailia. It’s reported that this was due to the Shopping.X namespace being unavailable in all markets. However this release is more than just a different URL as they have introduced a number of new features: Multiple selection of facets….
Why eBay Express is important
Monday’s launch of eBay Express marks an important milestone not just for eBay but for the larger Search design community. As many of you know, I believe that the faceted metadata search system introduced in eBay Express is very much the direction that all large collections should head and am pleased with the progress we’ve…
What does cable TV and the internet have in common?
Esther Dyson was at eBay a couple weeks ago for a speaker series we have and she made a comment during her talk that really struck me. In discussing her upcoming PC Forum conference “Erosion of Power: Users in charge” she pointed out that in a Web 2.0 world where everyone is a participant there…
GMail Bait and Switch on RSS Feeds
This week I started using the RSS feed functionality (or what Google brands “Web Clips”) which displays my subscribed headlines in the real estate at the top of your inbox. What surprised me was that Google (seemingly for the first time) has decided to share sponsored content in the same location and in the same…
Yahoo’s Shoposphere
Yahoo! launched a new feature on its Shopping site Monday night similar to eBay’s Reviews & Guides and Amazon’s Listmania which allows their shopping community to share products with other shoppers. Called the Shoposphere it shoppers build lists on any topic for others to see or just themselves. I think these shopping tools are a…