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Parents Weigh When Kids Should Get Gadgets [Source: Yahoo! News]

“Now you have all these kids plugged in and tuned out. And it is a real concern,” said Glasser, a mother of three who has heard of 3-year-olds having iPods.

Adalyn’s had her Portable DVD Player for close to two years and watches it religiously.

If you have FireFox take a look at MSN’s BETA Home Page. Did they design this using FrontPage or something? I find it hard to believe that MSN can’t get this page the render properly with other browsers, which leads me to think this is on purpose. But why?

I forgot to mention in my entry (Most Home Pages Really Do Suck) that it’s a must your home page properly renders in all major browsers.

Thanks to Guillaumeb for the tip. He’s also put up a screen shot if you’re still using Internet Explorer.

USNews.com has a great article on corporate evangelism that I came across while reading Steve Rubel’s Blog.

When I think of brand evangelism, FireFox comes to mind. Within one year FireFox has well over 100 million users! Is there a better example than Firefox? I don’t think so!

If you don’t already have it, Get FireFox.

‘Suck’ is a probably a little harsh. Most home pages don’t accomplish their purpose, and yes, some do ’suck’!

I was reading Seth Godin’s Blog today and came across his entry No good home pages?. While I’m sure Seth was just trying to make a point he says “there are no good home pages except for Google.” Then again who knows, maybe Seth really does think that. He has a point though, most home pages are no good. They’re overwhelming and confusing. Hell, I’ve come across web sites, and spent 10 minutes on the home page alone and still couldn’t tell you what they do. Maybe I’m just not as smart as I think.

If I come to your website and don’t know what you’re about within 30 seconds I’ll go somewhere else, and 30 seconds is being generous. The first thing a home page should tell me is; who you are, what your site does, and how I use it. It’s amazing, even some of the biggest brands miss the point. To me it’s just common sense. Do those involved in creating the User Interface just automatically asume everyone knows what they do? Do they even have a clue what they’re doing?

To me a good home page is simple. It’s easy to use and tells me exactly what it does before it tells me anything else. It’s pleasing to the eye and the navigation makes sense. Remember that if you want my business!

Xooglers - Blog about the early days of Google from former director of consumer marketing and brand management, Doug Edwards. Pretty interesting if you’re into that kind of stuff. [Source: Search Engine Watch]