July 2006 – Talk of Many Things

Usability Enhances Our Usage Experience Of Software

15 July 2006

Usability considerations are becoming very critical since Internet applications are becoming more mainstream and are being used by increasing number of people who are not IT-savvy. Poor usability leads to…

“Understanding Culture & Society”

13 July 2006

In December 2004, I had written a couple of letters to the editor of "The Economic Times" and "The Times of India" related to culture and society. These letters are…

How Mobile Phone MP3 Players Have Changed Lifestyles

9 July 2006

How MP3 Music & Mobile Phone MP3 Players Change Lifestyles. Today's newspaper (The Times of India) carried an article titled "Downloads soar, album sales plummet" that talks about how US album sales were down 4.2% in the first half of 2006, but sales of music downloaded online soared 77% during the same period.

Will Google Toolbar Kill Typed-in Traffic?

3 July 2006

There is so much buzz around typed-in traffic nowadays. Per anecdotal evidence, up to 15% of search engine pay-per-click (PPC) advertising traffic comes from typed-in traffic where the search engine…