Tuenti es una red social, de hecho es considerada “el Facebook español”, la verdad es que esta muy de moda entre la juventud española. En tuenti se pueden compartir textos, fotos, videos…, todo con una interfaz muy sencilla.

Aunque es una beta cerrada y solo puedes participar si tienes una invitación de otro usuario como ya hemos dicho, los números asustan, ya que ha superado a redes como facebook, myspace, badoo, meetic y match.

Aquí os dejo una foto del equipo que hace posible la adicción a tuenti, de la que los integrantes de Café Bombón formamos parte.

But there’s more: Since we can accurately measure the full user experience speed, we can incrementally improve site performance by tweaking many small adjustable screws. These would be unrecognized by users separately, but as a whole, these changes really matter and help us to squeeze out some more milliseconds of the user-perceived performance.

So how does this magic work?

The short version: It’s all in the JavaScript. We measure everything. A timing point is set right at the beginning of the page. After the loading process has finished, the onload event is triggered and transfers the measured data to our logging server. This is achieved using an AJAX request, which means all the key/value pairs are included in the query string of the request. The server responds with an empty 204 OK. Currently, we measure every thousandth request, plus every request with a particularly long duration. But while we’re measuring the whole page performance, we don’t leave out some interesting spots along the way. For example, we want to know how long it takes until our users can interact with the page, so we measure it. Anything interesting on the client side, we measure it.

If you’re really into this issue, you may be wondering why we are not using Jiffy for user experience performance tracing. Well, the answer is simple: Jiffy adds more than 300 lines of code to be delivered to the client, while our own solution is kind of free. The downside of our approach is that it does not work across requests, so we start measuring when a new page loads. In contrast to this, Jiffy measures from the point of time when a user clicks a link in the previous request. We decided to roll our own solution nonetheless as we’ve worked hard to shrink the JavaScript load and we want to keep it this way. The benefits of Jiffy do not justify the extra load for us. The same goes for Steve Souders’ Episodes framework: If you want to make it work in all major browsers, as we do, you have to add another 13 kB of JavaScript to your library, and this is the gzip-compressed number already. Although we may take up the Episodes syntax to be compatible with third-party extensions as the standard evolves in the future.

You may be asking yourself why an external performance measurement provider does not deliver sufficient results. While those are great in many cases, they do not use a real browser to gain results. This is a downside, especially because of the increasing importance of JavaScript-performance. Furthermore, performance checks from external providers are artificial. You will never reach the rich diversity of operating systems, connection speeds and browsers that you are confronted with in real life. Think of someone traveling on a train trying to connect to XING with their Blackberry or iPhone! While you can more or less simulate these situations, we decided to go with the real thing and measure real usage performance.

巧用关键词，事半功倍

“需求”、“拥有”、“兴趣爱好”、“机构组织”、“职业背景”、“教育背景”、“联系详情”，是个人档案的要素。有些XING友洋洋洒洒写了很多内容，殊不知，在此处，字不在多在于精。长句子不如短句子，短句子不如关键词。

如此说，何故？主要有两个原因：其一，在比较短的时间内，越短的句子越容易被人记住，也越易让人做出判断是否对你感兴趣，彼此是否有合作的机会。不要奢望陌生人在你的档案页停留太长时间，除非他已对你产生了兴趣。其二，我们得追溯到XING平台的一个特色技术。XING系统会智能筛选档案页面中的关键词，而后根据筛选出的关键词，自动向你推送匹配的最新职位信息。（你可以在符合您个人档案的供求信息处看到推送信息）若你发现没有接收到任何职位信息，不要犹豫了，修改一下自己的个人档案吧！你的关键词越明确，系统推送的信息就越准确!

善用隐藏项，有取有舍

也许，你在个人档案中填写了许多内容，导致页面拉的很长，看上去不太美观。不要着急，XING的几个功能可以帮到你。

更改我的隐私设置，是XING非常人性化的一个功能。你可以筛选哪些人能够看到你的信息，以及看到你的哪些信息。比如，你确认的联系人清单，是开放给所有会员，还是只给直接联系人看？是否开放留言簿，对哪些人开放？是否允许搜索引擎收录我的个人档案？…。

另外，如果你加入了很多社区，而不希望他们都显示出来的话，你可以在“社区的可见性”功能中编辑选择显示哪些社区，隐藏哪些社区。

如果你有兴趣，多花些时间看看个人档案设置部分，这里的很多功能都可以帮到你。若你有任何疑问，到XING的 帮助中心 吧。

勿忘商务照，画龙点睛

一份好的个人档案，照片是必不可缺的。文字的力量再强大，有时候，也敌不过你一个真诚的微笑。当你的信息都变成一个个数字符号的时候，不要忘记上传你的商务照片，让别人更为真实的感知你。

Hamburg saw usability experts from the research and practical side of things meet up to find out and report on the latest developments - in a jam-packed day with 16 lectures and three workshops. The topics covered ranged from the re-design of a health website and designing user-friendly sites for newspapers through to touch-free interaction with hand gestures.

I also gave a speech along with Patrick from eparo about „Consolidating agile software development and user-centered design”. So what exactly was it all about? In contrast to traditional software development, “agile” means that planning is done in iterations and sprints rather than in project phases. A sprint can last 2-4 weeks, with feature sets being defined at the outset and then developed and tested.

Methodology involved in user-centered design, like usability tests for instance, have to be integrated into these sprints - which the XING User Experience team has taken as an ideal opportunity to further enhance its work methods used up until now. More than 150 people came to listen to the talk, which was followed by a round of discussion. Lots of colleagues in the online sector are confronted with similar situations in their daily work, which meant that most of the questions involved how best to meet user requirements within the scope of agile projects.

We’re certainly looking forward to World Usability Day 2009!

Our Ambassadors will be organizing many networking events in all major cities in Turkey and we are looking forward to hearing about the ones that you are going to attend!

Lansman, gerçekten de çok başarılıydı!
Birkaç hafta süren hazırlık sonrasında XING’in Türkiye’deki resmi XING Ambassador (Xing Elçisi) etkinliğinde her şey yolunda gitti. Etkinliğin başlama saati 6:30’du ama gecenin ilk konukları 6:00’da gelmeye başlamıştı.
Konukların büyük bir çoğunluğu geldikten hemen sonra, Xing Ülke Müdürü Hakan Gönenli herkesi sıcak bir şekilde selamlayarak Türkiye’deki Ambassador’ları tanıttı. Xing’in kurucusu ve CEO’su olan Lars Hinrichs de etkinlikteki yerini alarak konukların biraz daha memnun olmasını sağladı.
Etkinliğin düzenlendiği mekan son derece güzeldi. İstanbul’da Sofa otelin terasında manzaranın keyfini çıkaran konuklar, aynı zamanda XING ağında olmanın çok özel olduğunu hissettiler. Herkes, birbirine kartvizitlerini verirken, hem fikir alışverişi yapıldı hem de yeni arkadaşlıklar kuruldu. XING’in resmi ağ iletişimi etkinliklerini başlatmak amacıyla geceye katılan tüm konuklar sayesinde etkinliğimiz gerçek bir başarıyla sonuçlandı!
Ambassador’larımız, Türkiye’nin tüm büyük şehirlerinde çok sayıda ağ iletişimi etkinliği düzenleyecek ve tabii ki sizin hangilerine katılacağınızı öğrenmek için sabırsızlanıyoruz!

Since the IPO in December 2006, our numbers of our members have risen every quarter, thus driving up our revenues and results. Apart from the growth in revenues, XING AG is one of the small number of listed companies which combine such rapid revenue growth with an above-average profitability (our last quarter was at 40%). In these terms, XING AG is one of the most profitable companies on the German markets.

The unique success and the continuing strong growth of XING are attributable particularly to highly motivated and experienced employees - actually the best team I have ever been privileged to work with. Their commitment is our most sustainably productive capital. And, since the beginning of the year, we have recruited a further 52 employees in order to enable us to continue to successfully implement the growth strategy which we have initiated. We are not laying people off, we haven’t stopped hiring, or even slowing down the recruitment processs. Indeed, the reverse is true: we have over 40 open positions at present. As an entrepreneur I strongly believe that these times are excellent opportunities, and XING is ready to tackle them.
The new employees will help develop new ideas and business models, and provide XING with strong support for the successful implementation of numerous new projects which provide our members with additional added value for business networking.