Facebook’s traffic may be plateauing. So what? | Exactly. The initial, explosive growth was clearly not sustainable. I think the next phase will be characterised by networks cannabilising users and non-English markets.

What web designers can learn from games | “…pacing, story and engagement.” apparently .  The article doesn’t make allowances for the nature and goal of individuals sites but does make a great point on how games have mastered the learning curve for users.

Doing a number on Web site traffic | More on the ongoing, industry wide issues with audience measuring for websites.

Widget Wins Hinge on Social Networks | There are some useful stats but the conclusion is fairly obvious – “So for the widget market to succeed, social networks must continue to claim Internet users’ time. The more people can get done there, the less they are likely to go elsewhere.”

From my perspective, widgets provide a great opportunity for niche sites to piggy back off the major networks and not compete for a users internet time.

Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes | As usual from useit, fully of good, common sense pointers. “1.a. Looking Like a GUI Control Without Being One” is something that especially bothers me. It’s the sort of thing that indicates a self-indulgent design team that is not thinking about the business requirement and by default, the end user.

TwitterLove via Programmableweb | Applying the Social Graph API to Twitter: “the application uses 2 other APIs including the Twitter API to create a timeline and the Japanese service SimpleAPI.net to create thumbnails.” allowing you to visualize the people someone is following on Twitter.

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