Banners and The Right Click

Do banners that allow standard right-click navigation options — “open in new window” and “open in new tab” — have higher click-throughs, other things being equal?

The Danger of Widgetized Web


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Widgets-shmidgets. YouTube goes down, and half the blogosphere with embedded videos is greyed out. YouTube should at least insert one of those TV test cards when it can’t serve the videos, like this:

Jakob Nielsen: Get Web 1.0 Right First

Jakob Nielsen’s newest alertbox on the web 2.0’s dangers to site profitability: “Instead of adding Facebook-like features that let users “bite” other users and turn them into zombies, the B2B site would get more sales by offering clear prices, good product photos, detailed specs, convincing whitepapers, an easily navigable information architecture, and an email newsletter.”