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Bohmann on Usability MediaHelper: A Little Less Clicking Listening to online music can be hard. I wanted to listen to the remix of Elvis' A Little Less Conversation and found it on Yahoo UK. I clicked the song title and expected to listen to the music. But things turned out to be more difficult than that because my browser didn't accept cookies from the site.Accordingly, Yahoo's MediaHelper (tm) tried to determine which player and connection speed I was using. The MediaHelper was unsuccessful because it couldn't save it's findings in a cookie on my machine. So, I had to choose the settings manually via several pages and pop-up windows. Annoying. Ideally, users would see one link, click on it and listen. And this is exactly what the MediaHelper does when you accept cookies. The MediaHelper is reducing the number of multimedia links from 12 (3 players, 4 streaming formats) to one. Nice! Listen now: (try to block cookies from Yahoo.com before proceeding for experimental purposes) A Little Less Conversation (if link is broken, use this link) |
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