http://www.cornettexperience.com Thriving in hyper-competitive markets through consumer experience differentiation Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:45:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After I missed a few critical email messages recently, I spent a good part of today simply trying to get my email inbox under control. Over the past decade, the "email problem" has slowly grown into an unmanageable beast. I looked at my work inbox today (this isn't even counting ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2008/03/04/is-your-email-inbox-killing-you/ Well, we finally announced it. Yahoo Search is going way open very soon. We will be allowing publishers and site owners to provide us with additional information about their site. This will provide a next-generation search experience with results that can display some of the rich data that is today ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2008/02/26/yahoo-search-goes-way-open/ Yes, I'm an early adopter. That's why I bought an Apple TV last year. And, I will admit that it has mostly just been an experimental toy until now. The biggest benefits? Being able to access my iTunes library of music and view my photos all from my living room ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2008/02/25/apple-tv-and-the-20-upgrade/ .photo-one {float: left; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } Well, it looks like Sony's Blu-Ray technology has won the high definition DVD format battle. Toshiba is dropping support for the HD DVD format. This is great news for consumers who will no longer have the confusion of the competing high-def formats. ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2008/02/19/blu-ray-wins-high-definition-dvd-format-battle-is-over/ .flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Grinds Coffee & Tea House, Capitola, CA, originally uploaded by Larry Cornett. I have talked about the commoditization of the coffee business before. You can certainly get a good cup of coffee (or ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2008/02/11/the-importance-of-contextually-relevant-differentiated-consumer-experiences/ Well, the biggest consumer-facing change to the Yahoo! Search experience has arrived. We just launched our new Search design this week, which features an incredible amount of great new improvements including: Search Assist - suggestions and related concepts that give users a new way to explore a subject area ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2007/10/04/new-yahoo-search-experience-has-launched/ The final whitepaper has been published by Enquiro Research for Search Engine Results 2010. In it, they cover what search engines may look like in the future, thoughts on personalization, universal search, eye tracking research, and interviews with leading industry experts such as Marissa Mayer, Jakob Nielsen, and Danny Sullivan. http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2007/08/30/whitepaper-published-search-engine-results-2010/ Search Engine Land just published my article: Search & Serendipity: Finding More When You Know Less. Here is an excerpt: Where do you go to get your daily fix of fresh information? If you are like millions of other users out there, you hit sites like Digg, Delicious, Techmeme, or ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2007/08/19/search-and-serendipity-finding-more-when-you-know-less/ I was recently interviewed by Gord Hotchkiss over at Search Engine Land on the future of Search. The meta question was: "What will the search results page look like in 3 years?" The full article is posted here: Search in the Year 2010. He interviewed a very interesting list of folks: Jakob ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2007/08/16/what-will-the-search-experience-look-like-in-the-year-2010/ .image { } .image-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } It ... http://www.cornettexperience.com/index.php/2007/07/26/yahoo-search-launching-great-new-features/