UserFly.com – Web usability testing made easy

‘userfly‘ is a very remarkable startup by Ashvin Kumar & Chris Estreich. It captures user events on your page (website usability) and playbacks very smoothly on your browser. All you have to do is insert 1 line of javascript on your page and the fun begins! It’s really interesting to see how users actually interact with the website. ‘userfly’ can help a lot in evaluating and improving user interfaces.

The project is in beta phase and has limited (10 users per hour) package that’s free along with premium one! Going through their FAQs, it seems that they are currently working over AJAX and might be capturing AJAX calls soon. I tested it on one of my websites and really liked it. I’m really hoping for some more exciting features from the team.

Test your website now by visiting www.userfly.com.

Doddle – a free SIP web client

If you Google out ‘VoIP web phone‘ even today, it’ll be a little hard to find a free online SIP softphone through which you can place phone calls. But yesterday, while going through some RSS on my Google Reader, I came across ‘Doodle‘ – it’s an amazing web phone that works with couple of VoIP providers and you can easily integrate it in your web page – that’s the best part!

Take a look at Doddling.com for more details.

Is WordPress.com 100% Ad-Free?

Some of you might be aware of this fact but most you must be still assuming that WordPress.com does not display any advertisements on your blog. Well, that’s not so! WordPress.com does display Google Ads on your blog but that’s not very often. However, the advertisements are not shown to regular readers, due to which neither you nor your readers might have noticed any advertisement on your personal blog that’s hosted on WordPress.com.

In a recent post on WordPress.com blog, Matt announced an optional upgrade which enables users to go even more Ad-Free. Even most of the WordPress users were surprised to hear that WordPress.com displays advertisement and were confused about this upgrade. Here is a comment from their user, quoting from the post:

snape: I still can’t understand the main topic. Does a free blog wordpress.com automatically have ads? But if so, why does my blog don’t have that ads? I understand if ads on a personal or nonporfit blog can be so annoying and WP offer a paid upgrade to remove the ads. But I can’t understand WP offer a paid upgrade to remove an unexist ads. I’m confused.

Reply from author:

Matt: snape, all blogs on WordPress.com may show ads sometimes for the past 2 years now, including yours. The ads are shown very rarely and not to regular visitors, so you will probably never see one. Even though the ads were unobtrusive, some people didn’t want them at all, and this upgrade enables that. It’s completely optional, and if you aren’t worried about the low-level of ads that have been shown for the past 2 years you don’t need this upgrade.

Read more about WordPress Ads at: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2006/09/06/on-ads/