International Sites - Minimum Requirements

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for August 8 is now online at:
   > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050808.html

Summary:
Users from other countries have special needs related to entry fields
for names and addresses, measurements and dates, and information
about regional product standards.

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User Experience 2005 conference

   > Boston, October 23-28
   > London, November 13-18

33 full-day tutorials over 6 days. Come for as few/many days as you like.

More info and full program:	
   > http://www.nngroup.com/events

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Call for Entries: Year's 10 Best Intranets

Think you have a good intranet?
Enter it for this year's design competition. 

FAQ:

  * There is no fee to enter
  * If you don't win, nobody will ever know that you entered
    (winners get great PR, non-winners are kept anonymous)

More info:
   > http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/2006

Deadline: August 22

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Yahoo announced its earnings for the second quarter of 2005. Comparing
with the equivalent numbers for Q2 2001 shows that the site succeeded in
increasing two key metrics as follows:

   * number of pageviews:      28% growth per year
   * earnings per pageview:    15% growth per year

Yahoo now makes 0.3 cents per page (equivalent to a CPM of $3).

Excuse me for harping on the usability message, but these numbers show
that it was about twice as important for Yahoo's growth to find out what
users want as it was to increase the monetization ratio. I know from
personal experience that Yahoo has a great user experience team, and I am
sure that they have a good advertising sales team as well. Both teams did
superb work, increasing quarterly revenues from $182M to $875M in only
four years.

In-depth course on website metrics: 
   > http://www.nngroup.com/events/tutorials/web_metrics.html

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In the Future, We'll All Be Harry Potter (from 2002, but current again)
   > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021209.html

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