General
A quick guide to the Yellow™ Lab blog
This blog will cover a variety of topics, but you might not be interested in all of them. To help you out, we’ll use a few different categories so that you can target the posts that you’re most interested in. Here’s a quick explanation of the categories we’ll use:
Site updates: Pretty much what it sounds like. We’ll give you a quick run down of what we’ve done in the latest update to the site.
UX: UX stands for User Experience. This is a broad term that covers things on the site that you interact with directly. It can range from simple interface designs decisions like why something is on the left rather than the right, all the way to more complex ideas such as user defined (location) search areas.
Dev: Short for developer, the Dev category is for all the techies out there that interested in the ‘behind the scenes’ workings. There’ll be posts ranging from how we’re using the FAST search engine, to how we’re going with developing on Rails. It’s hard to tell from the surface, but there are some tricky technical challenges for our developers.
Search: The site is for finding businesses, so search is at its heart. In this category we’ll be talking about search algorithms and how we’re measuring search quality – without giving away company secrets of course!
Features: Most likely this category will be paired with one of the others mentioned above, but essentially it’ll talk specifically about features you get to try out (but you probably already guessed that…)
Hopefully that helps you focus on the posts you care most about. We also hope that means you’ll join in with some discussion when we do post, after all, we want to hear what you think about our ideas.
Cheers,
Dan.
Welcome to Yellow™ Lab
Hi and welcome to the Yellow Lab blog. We have launched the Yellow Lab site to give you a preview of some of ideas coming out of Sensis and, in turn, letting you help shape what makes it out of the Lab onto www.yellowpages.com.au.
Have a look around and let us know what you think of what we have done so far. We will be constantly introducing and evolving features so make sure you drop in again to read the blog and see what has changed.
If you have any questions about the site, what we’ve done, what technologies we are using or things you’d like to see post your comments and start a conversation with the guys putting in the hard yards.
Cheers
Anthony
