Comments on: Amazon Web Services…not obvious but “clear” strategic synergies

By: Lou Paglia

Lou Paglia — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:16:44 +0000

understood. It could have been taken out of context but Nielson is infamous for not agreeing with the designs of most advanced web sites. In the late 90s, I subscribed to a lot of his design aesthetics and thinking because they were very well aligned with information-based web sites. Now, sites are more functionality-oriented as well and 2.0 sites are exceedingly more so.

By: Lou Paglia

Lou Paglia — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:16:00 +0000

By: Stephen Smoliar

Stephen Smoliar — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:07:39 +0000

In fairness to Nielson, none of us will ever know how much of the BBC interview with him actually made it to their Web page (unless he decides to speak up about it). From what I have read of his, my guess is that he elaborated on his points at greater length and pulled out examples from both sides of the coin. So it may have been a BBC decision to frame the article as an attack on Web 2.0.

By: Stephen Smoliar

Stephen Smoliar — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:07:00 +0000

By: Lou Paglia

Lou Paglia — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:07:14 +0000

Well, most of the advanced web site development/design/UI tends to be contrary to a lot of the principles that Nielson touts in his books and writing. It does not shock me that he would call the latest web sites of the 2.0 “glossy but useless” but to call many of the web 2.0 sites useless is subscribing himself to his own agenda rather than reviewing them subjectively.

By: Lou Paglia

Lou Paglia — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:07:00 +0000

By: Stephen Smoliar

Stephen Smoliar — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:47:56 +0000

Over on my own
blog I wrote up some comments on a recent BBC NEWS feature based on an interview with Jakob Nielsen. Nielsen has invested most of his cognitive ergs into developing guidelines for preparing readable and useful Web pages. The substance of the interview is that Nielsen fears that his ox is being gored by Web 2.0, whose sites he calls "glossy but useless." The BBC link is in my post. All visitors are welcome, as this aspect of Web 2.0 has not received that much attention.

By: Stephen Smoliar

Stephen Smoliar — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:47:00 +0000

Over on my own
blog I wrote up some comments on a recent BBC NEWS feature based on an interview with Jakob Nielsen. Nielsen has invested most of his cognitive ergs into developing guidelines for preparing readable and useful Web pages. The substance of the interview is that Nielsen fears that his ox is being gored by Web 2.0, whose sites he calls “glossy but useless.” The BBC link is in my post. All visitors are welcome, as this aspect of Web 2.0 has not received that much attention.

By: Lou Paglia

Lou Paglia — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:47:25 +0000

Margaret: No apology necessary, cynicism is one of the fundamental needs to keep an even keel when assessing this marketplace, particularly as we are potentially in the age of a new Web 2.0 based bubble.
Secondly, very interesting that you used the term "tangled web". It is a term that I just used in one of my recent posts:
How many webs are there?
Enjoy!

By: Lou Paglia

Lou Paglia — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:47:00 +0000

Margaret: No apology necessary, cynicism is one of the fundamental needs to keep an even keel when assessing this marketplace, particularly as we are potentially in the age of a new Web 2.0 based bubble.
Secondly, very interesting that you used the term “tangled web”. It is a term that I just used in one of my recent posts:
How many webs are there?
Enjoy!