6 Articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 15, 2010)

Collaboration Is More Important Than Ever – 3 Barriers To Adoption

An article looking at some significant reasons that prevent people from using collaboration tools to collaborate effectively within an organisation. Some further comments on the Beantin facebook page.

Web customers care about tasks, not goals

It’s all task based. When we arrive at a web site we have already decided what we want to achieve. This is a point I have to explain every single week…

Mary Meeker: Mobile Internet Will Soon Overtake Fixed Internet

Some excellent data to back up the claim that the mobile internet is reaching tipping point. One thing that concerns me though is Mary’s encouragement of the walled garden for content. A separate Swedish article reveals that 20% of Swedes surf via their mobiles at least once a week.

Better recipes on the web: Introducing recipe rich snippets

Reviews, people, video, events & now Recipes – where’s ‘products’? It’s only a matter of time before Google lift it out of their labs and start using it for real.

Using site speed in web search ranking

Today Google officially announce that slow site speed with affect your ranking in Google Search results. Let’s hope this brings a new dawn of page-size efficiency to the web-world. There is going to be a short series of Beantin blog posts about page speed very soon.

30 iPad Productivity Problems

Perhaps a bit of link-bait from Steve, but it does highlight really well why the iPad isn’t a capable of being your primary (or only) mobile computing device.