Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability sold out at Amazon today on the first day of release. There’s a reason: it’s good.
Morville’s work is the most appropriate follow-on to the usability concepts so well promoted by Steven Krug in his Don’t Make Me Think and Jakob Nielsen in Designing Web Usability. Findability, Morville argues, is a necessary [...]

Posted September 29, 2005 by Casey
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I’m only just getting into Peter Morville’s Ambient Findability, but I’m eating it up. In trying to prep the reader to understand his thesis — summed up on the front cover as “what we find changes who we become” — Morville relates his difficulty in finding authoritative, non-marketing information about his daughter’s newly diagnosed peanut [...]

Posted September 23, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ambient findability, find, findability, google, google economy, googling, hidden web, long tail, non-commercial information, peter morville, search, search engines, search results, seo, the hidden web, top rank. 3 Comments.

I don’t want to admit to being interested in marketing, but I am. Here’s a few links…
Blogs:

Church of the Customer 
Seth Godin 
Aaron Wall’s SEO Book.com 
Threadwatch.org 

Randomness:

Writing, Briefly 
Google’s search result quality evaluation guidelines 
definition of the Google Economy at Wikipedia 
The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR 

tags: building buzz, internet marketing, marketing, search engine optimization, seo, web marketing, [...]

Posted September 8, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: building buzz, google economy, googleeconomy, internet marketing, marketing, search engine optimization, seo, web marketing. 2 Comments.