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  Google's latest changes in page layout algorithm recommends site operators and bloggers to be more focus on user experience. To sum up a few points: 1. Thin content above-the-fold is not one of the best practice in exercising good user experience. Although Google agreed that placing ads above-the-fold as a means to monetize ... Continue Reading

  Hong Kong is to feature 5 contemporary visual artists and photographers in the West Kowloon Bamboo Theatre  (西九大戲棚) by showing their body of work in relation to Cantonese opera. Specially curated by film veteran Law Kar and Chow Chun-fai, the bamboo theatre stage will be transformed into an outdoor cinema, offering a ... Continue Reading

On the heel of the implementation of real name registration for Beijing-based micro-blog platforms, Beijing is set to expand the real name system to other services offered by each microblog operator. Beijing authority is to a verify user's real identity by issuing a verify code for the user to register his/her ... Continue Reading

Wordpress has just updated itself to 3.3 version. At first glance, the update has polished a couple of items that make the tool more user friendly and easily accessible. To name a few  features of Wordpress 3.3 Sonny: 1. Flyout submenu on the left panel. Before this release, Wordpress expandable and collapsible ... Continue Reading

Sometimes it seems very obvious, but when you don't find it or simply forget it, you run into trouble. It comes to TG's attention that I have set up Google's feedburner for my friends and clients' sites, after a year or two, we all forget how to retrieve our feedburner ... Continue Reading

TG got a couple of queries from peers asking for Google+ business page image editing tool. Sure, the tool is not discernible and take a while to find out where it is. Let's take a quick look and see how we can make use of it to improve image quality. First ... Continue Reading

Google+ (Business) Page is very similar to Google + in many ways - a place for real-life sharing. We try it out and want to see to what extent we can make use of it. We come up with a few observations as follows in our first several rounds of ... Continue Reading

In an effort to improve user experience, Google officially told us in an email lately to close down Google Sidewiki in December following its September's Fall spring -clean statement. Google Sidewiki was launched help users share their experiences and thoughts about a topic posted on web sites or blogs, TG has reported ... Continue Reading

  As a designer and user design practitioner, TG pays tribute to Steve Jobs, who is the de facto architect of Apple's voguish and trendy gadgets. He life is such a legend but died young There are a number of reasons TG admires him: 1. Innovative in product development including introducing fonts and ... Continue Reading

Trust-earning has become Google's guiding light to gauge good content against "metoo". Google relies on users to give recommendation, helping other users to acquire the most relevant and quality content during search process. In the meantime, publishers have a chance to promote their best content online. With that in mind, Google announced to offer "standout" ... Continue Reading