Web intelligence is defined by Wikipedia as "The Web intelligence is the study and research of the application of Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology on the web in order to create the next generation of products, services and frameworks based on the internet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_intelligence

I have the feeling that this is on the horizon to be the next big leap for software products. I titled this entry very specifically to relate how I foresee the field of Web Intelligence impacting the entire industry of software products.

So I was browsing the web, looking at some thought provoking videos, and I came across the site jottit.com. I initially found the concept really interesting. The site is created to give people a website that is as easy to use as blog software; you just type some text and with simple controls you have a website. This got me thinking about Intuit's new product that allows small business owners to create their own websites for $100. Easy websites for the small business to have their own control their web presence.

I recently had an opportunity to help out a friend by giving his company the ability to sell shirts on the website. When I received the site information all was well, after meeting to discuss the needs of the site and determine what technology to use, I began work.

I recently saw a presentation that talked about a UX Team of One that I am going to blab about.

http://www.slideshare.net/ugleah/how-to-be-a-ux-team-of-one?type=present...

I was first struck by the title, "team of one"... Sort of weird, but I will let that go. This presentation was well put together and pretty well thought out. However, I have yet to see one person, so good that they didn't need at least a second pair of eyes on a project. I just think that for the sake of the product, there should be a team of several.

Innovation is a game that some companies who choose to play must know the rules of in order to be successful. Innovation is more than a buzzword, it is controlled chaos. Innovation is the chaotic explosion that creates heat and fire, that then pushes a piston to create linear energy that then gets turned into rotary motion, that makes it's way to move one's business forward.

So today as I was in the elevator heading up to the office, I overheard a conversation about how a product was saved by reducing the number of clicks on the site. This got me thinking about a couple of things....

The number of clicks is not the be-all and end-all to all usability problems. Useless clicks are a symptom of a bigger problem.

So after a lot of hard work, my new portfolio site is up. I have made a lot of improvements from the last site. This site is now running on Drupal, with a custom template that I have created. My old site was all hand coded, and validated, HTML/CSS. Two issues that I was having with my old portfolio site came from the technology and the work presented. On the technology side, it wasn't scalable. On the work side, instead of providing visibility into showing specific work examples, I was just highlighting my past companies accompanied by a bullet lists of work that I did...