Usability expert tears apart Windows 8

Design expert Jakob Nielsen calls Microsoft's still-fresh Windows 8 operating system "a monster that terrorizes poor office workers and strangles their productivity."

Are You a Human makes what sucks suck less (and maybe not suck at all)

Any time anyone can make something suck less, there's a good chance of finding a valid business model. Even when you're competing with Google.

Week in Review: What Google+ does better than Twitter and Facebook

Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:

5 things Google+ does better than Facebook and Twitter — Google+ has only been active for a month, …

Google+ usability shows promise, but still has a few hitches

Google+ looks unlike anything Google has ever produced, and that’s a good thing. Gone are the seemingly endless variations on blue color schemes and vain attempts at absolute minimalist design (see: Gmail, Google Calendar). In their place, Google has created …