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  Techcrunch 

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  FIQL is a nice niche social network focused on music playlists. Users upload, categorize and share their playlists with others. People who view the playlists can buy songs through links to iTunes and other ... music services. But for the most part they can’t simply listen to the songs online, other than through somewhat cumbersome links to Napster and Rhapsody, which allow people to listen to songs for free with certain restrictions. Since listening to music on playlists has so many restrictions, the service hasn’t grown much - it has just 15,000 playlists from 50,000 registered users since launching in 2005. But at 9 AM PST I have a feeling they will be getting a whole bunch of new users and a lot more playlists when they launch a new product called FIQL TV. That’s because they figured out a brilliant, if somewhat obvious, end-around to copyright laws that restrict them from playing music outright: music videos hosted on third party video sites like YouTube. It’s widely known that musi   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 20 September 2007, by: Stewart Love  [Report as spam]

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  Free Usability Advice | Free Usability Advice 

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  October 16, 2007 User data sources We get feedback from users when we’re able to do usability tests, which is not often enough. What other sources are good for user data? Companies often fail to take advantage ... of internal sources of user data. In defining requirements for the next release, do you talk to Tech Support or Customer Service to identify the most frequent or critical usability issues they’ve heard about from users? Those teams also are on the front line for hearing about new features that users want. Technical Writers and Documentation Specialists also can be gold mines of information. If those folks are not already on your team, find them and ask their thoughts. Chances are, the things they have a hard time documenting are good issues to be explored. Marketing and Product Management might have valuable data for you from surveys, focus groups, interviews, etc. If your organization has a Training group, ask them what’s working and what the users want changed. Observe the trai   [More...] [Less...]

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