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Friday, January 02, 2009
[ This and That: 01.02.09 ]

+ Five Second Test - The five second test is a simple usability test that helps you measure the effectiveness of your user interfaces. So help out a designer and give some good karma :)

Who's Talkin' is a neat metasearch engine that aggregates results from blogs and blog comments, news sites, social networks, video hubs, images, forums, tag sites from over 60 sites such as Technorati, IceRocket, Google Blog Search, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. Site is currently in beta, but pretty cool and a nice tool to use to keep track of your brands. (hat tip: micropersuasion)

Round up of 2008 ad campaigns from USA Today and the NYTimes

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