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As the mobile channel’s audience has progressed from early adopters to the mainstream, many businesses are now providing mobile experiences for their users. The shifting momentum from desktop experiences to mobile has forced many online managers to stretch themselves into understanding this additional channel’s nuances and how to design mobile optimized user experiences (UX). Here's a look at how Usability Testing can help and how it's different from testing for the desktop.

For some search engines, it’s about recovery, not discovery. But for Sophia, provider of enterprise search products and software, discovery is a priority.
 

 A little funding news for your Monday afternoon. BA-Insight, provider of enterprise search solutions built on Microsoft technologies, have secured a tidy sum of US$ 6 million in funding.

Do you ever find yourself wondering why it's easier to find content on the internet than in your own organization? Maybe you need a Findability Strategy. Here's a look at how you can define yours. 

Yesterday the Internets welcomed Google Instant, a new search feature with streaming Web results that appear as you type your query. Reactions have been mixed, especially from within the SEO pool.  

KMWorld (news, site) has released its list of trend setters for 2010, so what's making the pace in the new decade?

What if you could spot a trend before it is one? Curt Dalton wondered the same thing. With his Internet Time Machine, a search retrieval and analysis engine, companies can reverse the traditional process for finding relevant searches related to specific products and niche interests.

You might recall that in our Open Source Alert at the end of July we mentioned that Squiz (news, site)  said it was working on something top secret.

The secret is out. Squiz is joining the Web Engagement Management (WEM) bandwagon. 

Content Strategy (CS) as a topic has gained significant recognition and momentum, but that doesn't mean all stakeholders get it, nor that they will buy-in to your CS-driven priorities. Here are 7 road-tested tips on how to make that happen more successfully.

Open Text (news,site) is putting one of their recent acquisitions -- Nstein -- to a good use. Like many others in the Enterprise CMS field, Open Text is after web engagement with better search experience and a chance at a more intelligent navigation.

Seems security has been high on everyone’s list of priorities this week with FaceTime releasing its Socialite software to secure social networks, and HP buying Fortify to add application security at the blueprint stage. Not surprising though, after recent research from Gartner showing security software is a priority for enterprises.

In 2005, Jakob Nielsen shared what he considered to be the top 10 design mistakes of what was once called the ‘weblog.’ Strikingly, five years later, most (if not all) of them still remain true in the world of the engaged web.

There’s a mixed bag of news for SMBs this week, the principal item -- if in fact it’s true -- is that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) may be getting ready to launch the unconfirmed BlackPad. Meanwhile, Google has given Gmail contacts a bit of a makeover.

When it comes to collecting and sifting through data for litigation purposes, companies often begin by searching for terms relevant to them at the time, only to return again and again for new relevant keywords. With more and more advanced eDiscovery solutions on the market, many claim to speed up the collection process by searching for the words you didn’t know you needed.

It’s no secret that companies have a lot of data coming in and going out. From email to documents to archived records, most companies have a general idea where it is stored and what it contains. And even though knowing is half the battle, being unable to successfully account for all of it, can leave companies unprepared and at risk.