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Much of the early work has been done tracking online behavior. The Web provides researchers with vast data sets for tracking the spread of all manner of things - news stories, ideas, videos, music, slang and popular fads - through social networks. That research has potential applications in politics, public health, online advertising and Internet commerce.

More than anything, Google prefers to make design decisions based on what performs well. And as a company, Google cares about being fast, so we want our user experience to be fast. That's not just in terms of front-end latency-how long it takes the page to download-it's also about making people use their computers more efficiently. A lot of our design decisions are really driven by cognitive psychology research that shows that, say, people online read black text against a white background much faster than white against black, or that sans serif fonts are more easily read than serif fonts online.

We surveyed the top 20 most-trafficked wired Web sites - according to Nielsen Online - and we found that half of the sites did not work well on leading mobile phones.

Requiring prospects to register for content is a standard B2B lead gen practice. But what if your audience is rather old-school and not used to signing up for content online? Listen to a marketer who knew that promoting a new product to a traditional audience required a demo of its value and a voluntary registration form to avoid scaring away prospects. Almost one out of four (23%) demo viewers were converted into leads.

On Twitter, hundreds of updates tagged "iranelection" appeared each hour. A steady stream of photos and witness reports came from one Twitter user, persiankiwi. He sat at his computer in Tehran, as friends fed him information on the protests. "We honour and thank the people of Iran and especially the hackers," he tweeted late on Monday. "Basij [the militia] have guns - we have brains.

The study raises questions about the emotional cost - particularly for the developing brain - of heavy reliance on a rapid stream of news snippets obtained through television, online feeds or social networks such as Twitter. "If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people's psychological states and that would have implications for your morality,"

Nederland is nog geen succesvolle internetsamenleving. Niet alleen ouderen, ook jongeren hebben moeite met het vinden en interpreteren van de informatie die ze zoeken.

Brad Anderson, chief executive officer of Best Buy Co., is embracing a heretical notion for a retailer. He wants to separate the "angels" among his 1.5 million daily customers from the "devils."

University of Minnesota Duluth: Information Technology Systems & Services - Usability Body of Knowledge

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instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products, hire people that represent the company well, and when your stuff is so awesome that friends share it with other friends, you may not even need "social media marketing" after all.