Comments on: A New slice of the pie http://www.whatthefarq.com/Business/a-new-slice-of-the-pie/ Insight about my web stuff Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Julie Smithers http://www.whatthefarq.com/Business/a-new-slice-of-the-pie/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Julie Smithers Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:22:35 +0000 http://www.whatthefarq.com/?p=73#comment-23 Interesting. I had thought that the new web slices were going to be an interesting technology for users to use, but I hadn't thought that some sites may not want to make use of them, like you say, those that need traffic ON thier pages to serve ads. However, I wonder if this is the same fear those kinds of sites had when RSS first came out? I guess time will tell if technologies like RSS or Web Slices (or anything else the next-gen broswers will invent) will help drive traffic to sites by giving users notification, or if they will drive traffic away because people are simply OK scanning the headlines and not drilling in for the full story. In either case, this is just further proof that the home page is no longer the home page. All these (RSS & Web Slices) drive people directly do the article page (or the detail page), bypassing the home page. This is not new; usability folks have known that the detail pages get seen without home pages for a while. Great article, thanks! JS Interesting. I had thought that the new web slices were going to be an interesting technology for users to use, but I hadn’t thought that some sites may not want to make use of them, like you say, those that need traffic ON thier pages to serve ads.

However, I wonder if this is the same fear those kinds of sites had when RSS first came out? I guess time will tell if technologies like RSS or Web Slices (or anything else the next-gen broswers will invent) will help drive traffic to sites by giving users notification, or if they will drive traffic away because people are simply OK scanning the headlines and not drilling in for the full story.

In either case, this is just further proof that the home page is no longer the home page. All these (RSS & Web Slices) drive people directly do the article page (or the detail page), bypassing the home page. This is not new; usability folks have known that the detail pages get seen without home pages for a while.

Great article, thanks!

JS

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