Blogging

ABC News reports: Internet users can take just one-twentieth of a second to decide whether they like the look of a website, researchers say. Dr Gitte Lindgaard and colleagues from Carleton University in Ottawa flashed up websites for 50 milliseconds and asked participants to rate them for visual appeal. When they repeated the exercise after a longer viewing period, the participants’ ratings were consistent.

AP reports: Yahoo has introduced email folder which will fetch data from RSS feeds that you specify. This comes as a major move from the traditional method of receiving emails as well as the usual method of fetching RSS feeds and displaying it on a web page. Currently in beta with plans to release it to a portion of their customers.

Just read a really positive review of Flock on MSNBC. Read Web users of a feather Flock together.

For old and new bloggers alike, Paul writes a short HOW TO on increasing traffic to your blog. He covers Usability, Content, Technorati, Blog rings, Feedburner and few other tricks.