I think I have turned into a geek. Two things indicate this to me. First, I use web 2.0 Google applications like Docs, and Gmail. Second I use FireFox and I load it on about every computer I touch.

Here is a very interesting interview with Yahoo!’s Jeff Bonforte. He explains that the primary reason Google is struggling with market adoption is that they are run by engineers and struggle with usability. I couldn’t agree more. Yahoo! mail has 270 million email users vs Google’s 70 million. Yahoo! messenger is second only to MSN messenger.

“Usability to consumers at the mass level is the most difficult problem to solve on the internet,” Jeff said. “There is lots of stuff that we can put out there for dorks and geeks like me, because we eat it up. But actually getting to something that is usable is extremely complex.”

Perhaps Google would take over the world if they would just take a little of their billions of dollars and put them into their user interfaces for applications.

As I have been heavily involved in designing the UI for iMemoryBook, I couldn’t agree with Jeff Bonfort more.

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