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Amazon has a shocking gap in their customer service authentication protocol that allows for people to “re-order” your stuff, shipped to them for free, on your behalf.

Email newsletters for retailers do well to offer frequency controls, or risk driving their best customers insane flooding their inboxes.

Google releases their new Nexus One phone and we look at some of the problems with the subsidized price and their checkout process.

Some think there is no page fold in web design. But it still matters a great deal what first appears to your users.

Facebook capitulates and makes some changes to the new design. Meanwhile, we discuss whether ignoring your users and staying headstrong makes any sense.

Just eight short months ago, Facebook redesigned the home page for a logged in user. At the time, I bashed on the News Feed, as it made a poor use of whitespace and seemed haphazard and disheveled. Facebook took to repair and tighten the design down a good deal, and I grew to find it [...]

Barnes & Noble requires a security answer of a certain length; a bit problematic when the answer to the question is shorter than their required minimum.

Google is switching to a new query system that’s breaking keyword tracking in almost every analytics tool.

I first read about Facebook having lost some users’ notification settings on TechCrunch four days ago. This was worrisome to me, but I got sick over the weekend and didn’t have a chance to write about it. Then I got my very own email from Facebook telling me the same: they’ve lost my notification settings [...]

I Want Sandy is a small but useful “personal email assistant”—a proactive time management and reminder system that was built to work for you and intelligently help you manage your time. It’s offered for free and it’s one of many time management-type web 2.0 solutions available. Yesterday, its creator Rael Dornfest announced that he would [...]