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Determining your User’s Cognitive Style:
The Future of Web Design?

June 26th, 2008 at 10:51 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Intelligence, Web Design



Really interesting article from Technology Review about a Paper written by John Hauser, Glen L. Urban, Guilherme Liberali and Michael Braun.
It is about finding the user’s cognitive style (“a person’s preferred way of gathering, processing, and evaluating information”) by analyzing their pattern of click. In around 10 clicks the system can figure out whether a [...]

Nearly achieved my ‘new eve 2007 objective’: Ranking Ahmet keyword on top of Search engines

June 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Experiment, Google



In that time I was a big fan of SEO and thought that it would be cool to place my first name (Ahmet) in top positions of search engines. When I started I couldn’t even find a reference to my website while searching on Google.com (European server) and there are about 44,700,000 results when searching [...]

Google AdSense is Down !?!

June 21st, 2008 at 11:55 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Google



Must have been the first time I saw one of Google services being down…

http://www.google.com/errors/asfe/system_down.html
Now, who is going to pay for the adds not distributed :) ?
Ahmet

Bridges to Understanding

June 21st, 2008 at 3:02 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Intelligence, Videos



Just watched this great video from Phil Borges on ‘Documenting our endangered cultures’ at TED.
I also love the idea of ‘Bridges to Understanding‘, take a look an act if possible :)

Ahmet

Stepping Down as an User Group Manager –> Moving to Zurich @ Microsoft Unified Communication

June 18th, 2008 at 11:55 pm by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Point of View



I am stepping down as the ‘User Group Manager’ of the Adobe User Group Geneva. It was a great time for me being a UGM, Adobe really cares about us and the community, I have an incredible collection of Adobe’s T-Shirt :p.
I’m very proud of the growth of AUGG, we started in November 2006 with [...]

Adobe AIR Cookbook Available in Beta

June 18th, 2008 at 10:38 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in AIR, Adobe, Books



Just a quick note to relay the information, Adobe’s great idea of offering online community driven cookbook is now extended to AIR.
Access AIR Cookbook

Adobe User Group Geneva: June 10 meeting at 6:30 pm

June 4th, 2008 at 9:22 am by Ahmet Gyger

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Posted in Adobe, General, Usability



Comme convenu lors de notre dernière rencontre, la date pour la prochaine AUGG à été fixé au mardi 10 juin 2008 à 18:30 chez nos amis des Nomades.
Le programme sortira un peu de l’ordinaire avec une présentation de Florian Egger (PhD in Human-Computer Interaction), qui est Usability & User Experience Consultant, créateur de Telono.com. Il [...]