The User

“In a Monday letter to Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, Lieberman asked that YouTube “implement its own policy against this offensive material,” by removing the videos. Lieberman, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, also wants YouTube staffers to have a system that will prevent the video from reappearing.”

Read the full story covered on CNN here.

Honda has done a brilliant live commercial in Spain using skydivers. Watch it here.

Steve Jobs announces the big coming of iPhone 3G, at $200 with much desired 3G & GPS.

The brilliant part was integrating Microsoft Exchange which gives the opportunity of secure interaction for companies along with push e-mail, push calendar and contacts. The best thing comes with the remote wipe which allows you to  completely wipe your date in case of loss.

The project has benefit of a huge number of testers and companies which have done that were completely satisfied of the product’s abilities.

The nice thing for us, the general public which doesn’t live in US is that Apple is planning a simultaneous launch in US and 23 other countries. Unfortunately for Romanians we were not in the first wave, but don’t loose hope because it will come soon here as well, especially because Orange has claimed exclusivity for the launch in Romania.

Google was accused of violating California law by not putting a direct link to its privacy policy on its homepage.

The law requires any commercial website that collects personal information about its users to “conspicuously post its privacy policy on its website”.

Google says that it does and that its privacy policy can be found by going through its search engine or by clicking on “About Google”.

Read the rest of the article on this topic here.

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen says on his latest article on BBC that people are becoming much less patient when they go online.

Instead of getting caught in marketing traps designed to make them linger on a website, users are more and more determined to search something, rich their needs quickly and leave. More that that, they are becoming suspicious of promotions designed to hold their attention.

In the last 10 years the success percentage of users which found what they were looking for has risen from 60% to 75%. This rise is due to 2 factors: first the usability of the applications has risen, more designer think more about the users needs instead of just designing for creativity, and on the other side, users get more accustomed with the applications they use.

“This makes them very resistant to highlighted promotions or other editorial choices that try to distract them. Web users have always been ruthless and now are even more so. People want sites to get to the point, they have very little patience. I do not think sites appreciate that yet, he added. They still feel that their site is interesting and special and people will be happy about what they are throwing at them.”, said Dr Nielsen.