Change vs. Stability in Web Usability Guidelines

Summary:
A remarkable 80% of findings from the Web usability studies in the 1990s continue to hold today.

As Web usability testing enters its 14th year, it's worth asking how early results have held up to recent user research.

10 years ago, I wrote an article on the changes in Web usability from 1994 to 1997. A few of my original findings were no longer valid a mere 3 years after they were issued. But most of the 1994 guidelines held true in 1997 -- and they're still correct today.

More details about this topic - Usability Guru (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/guidelines-change.html)

Google double their attachment limit

GONE are the days where you can only send a maximum of 10MB as an attachment on gmail, make way for the new 20mb limit!

Starting today, you can now start sharing more of those home videos, large presentations and files that were simply too big to send before, making your gmail space even more useful. This also makes gmail much more useful and practical for sending multiple attachments.

Yahoo, the leaders in online email (however that happened) currently only offer users attachments totaling 10MB unless you fork out on their premium service in which case you get up to 20MB.

Now that gmail accounts beat that, will we see a change in the market leader?