Archive for the ‘Intuitive Applications’ Category

Google Indexing Flash… kind of

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

So the big news in the Flash development world is Google’s latest announcement that they have improved their indexing of Adobe Flash files. But what exactly does this mean to developers?

Google has been indexing Flash since 2004

Well, the news isn’t exactly as groundbreaking as some first thought. For starters, Google has already been indexing flash files since 2004. Google’s spiders have been able to view any static text information since shortly after Macromedia released their Flash Search Engine SDK. The difference with this latest update is that Google’s mystical little crawlers can now access dynamic text as well as recognize URLs in that text. (more…)

Dynamic Charting: One Click Intelligence for Real Time Decision Making

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

As companies gather more and more information on the customers and prospects, analyzing this data has become tedious, time consuming and expensive. In many cases conclusions come too late and applying learning based upon analytics is no longer of value.

Pivot+Levy has developed a reporting approach that provides dynamic and graphical analysis of any demographic or psyographic inputs from online forms. These may include information or subscription requests, or summary data from ecommerce transactions.

A client comments: “What once took weeks and a dedicated staff resouce, has been entirely automated. Critical prospect and product preference data is now available to key decision makers in real time.” – JoAnne Foist, Fleetwood Homes.

Purchase Timeframe/Lead Counts & Age Data (Chart is dynamic, and reflects data collected from consumer form submissions).



Most leads plan to purchase within one year. 7-12 months is the purchase horizon most often stated, followed by 4-6 months, and 0-3 months

The Flash Commandments

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Some recent discussions have gotten me thinking about what is and isn’t a good use of Flash. I thought I might illustrate what isn’t a good use of Flash, as it’s a bit easier to nail down. Mind you, some of these “rules” aren’t specific to Flash. Some of them are just basic usability and UI. Without further ado, I give you the Flash Commandments: (more…)

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