"Adobe will merge Omniture’s web analytics offering into its creation tools, aiming to provide advertisers and etailers with better return on investment in digital platforms."

Habitat returned to Twitter yesterday with the message, “We’re back. Sorry it took so long. This time we want to get it right, tell us what you want to hear from us and we’ll mark suggestions in our favourites.”

"What the vast majority of these games inevitably do is present relationship mechanics that distill the commodity model down to its essence—you talk to the NPC enough, and give them enough presents, and then they have sex with/marry you."

More than at any earlier election the news web sites this year took an active part not only in distributing the latest results but also in giving people a platform to discuss the elections.

If you haven't heard yet about the BCC, it's a virtual community of existing book clubs and engaged readers, hosted by Sarah T. Williams, former books editor of the Star Tribune.

The Wall Street Journal’s Web site is expected to launch on Thursday a twice-a-day Webcast called “The News Hub” that will air at 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Windows only: Chrome turned one year old just a couple weeks back, and as a belated celebration, the folks at Google have just pushed out a brand new stable release in the form of Google Chrome 3.

TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki – including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it's a single file, it's very portable – you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.

"More importantly to those wondering about the company's plans for the future, however, was the news that Facebook was now cashflow positive – which means it is finally making money after five and a half years and an estimated $716m of investment."

"One of the guiding principles of interaction design is to support existing behavior. This means to figure out what is already happening, what activities, tasks, and interactions people are already doing, and build support for them into software.
This may not seem like a glamorous way to approach design, but from my experience it’s the fastest way to make people happy. Let them do what they already do faster/better/easier, and then you’ll have their attention in order to push the envelope after that."

The unofficial tool, Guardian Anywhere, has been developed by Future Platforms and James Hugman, who first launched it onto the Android Marketplace after entering it for the Android Developer Challenge, it was announced in a blog post.

Figure out what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. Another way to put it: Who is your audience, or who do you want to be in your audience? Who is this for? There’s an old creative-writing maximum that goes something like this: If you write only for yourself, you’re likely to have an audience of one.

"ChangeTracker watches the White House’s web site so you don’t have to. Whenever a page on whitehouse.gov [1] changes, we’ll let you know — via e-mail, Twitter, or RSS.
But ChangeTracker is not a piece of software. It’s the output of a series of powerful and mostly free Web-based tools, lovingly connected over the Internet. Here’s how to do it yourself so you can track changes on any Web site on the Internets."

"Ask a question, either on our Web site, via e-mail, or by Twitter. Within 24 hours (longer on weekends and holidays), a personal response will come from our newsroom describing how we plan to handle the question. While we don’t commit to answering questions that are too specific to a single person’s situation or ones seeking to resolve disputes, we’ll at least direct the person who asked to possible resources. "

If brands want to conquer social media engagement, they must include it as part of their overall planning process, aligning it with both the company’s and target consumers’ requirements.

P&G, which owns brands such as Gillette, Pampers and Pantene, will now pay publisher sites running its campaigns more money for engaged users – for example, those who go beyond viewing ads and sign up to newsletters, play games or watch videos.

The tool uses an @ tagging function, similar to that used on Twitter. It will let Facebook users link to friends, groups, pages or events when updating their status.

"The IPKat feels singularly depressed at the thought that this is the best we can come up with. Merpel goes one step further. Imagine, she says, that the reader of this statement is not a legitimate stakeholder but a trader in counterfeit and pirate products: would such a person not feel assured and comforted by this assortment of pious and waffly sentiments?"

"From Software’s forthcoming 3D Dot Game Heroes."

"With RFID it’s proximity that matters, and actual contact isn’t necessary. Much of Timo’s work in the Touch project addresses the fictions and speculations in the technology. Here we play with the problems of invisibility and the magic of being close."

The unintended editorial consequeces of the race for unique users?