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Emily Bell: “Our web address - guardian.co.uk - will become the title piece on the front page and replaces Guardian Unlimited.”
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“In the war of the websites, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ is plotting a new skirmish. A redesign is afoot, taking the website of the ‘New York Post’ as its model”
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“If web 2.0 could be summarised as interaction, web 3.0 must be about recommendation and personalisation.”
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“The team at WordPress itself have now released a new theme dubbed Prologue, which they liken to a group Twitter… This is the ideal format for a breaking news site, with reporters adding the latest details as they come in.”
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“UK Internet traffic to newspaper websites reached its highest level in over two years last week off the back of a number of big news stories.”
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Independent redesign redesign: “Each feature is demarcated with the same device, additional stories are marked with the same icon, main stories use the same font for their headlines, and there is a single color palette that is stuck to religiously.”
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“This document represents a compilation of fundamental principles for designing user interfaces, which have been drawn from various books on interface design, as well as my own experience.”
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US Department of Health and Human Sciences.
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“Today we’re releasing a new feature to find your local news by simply typing in a city name or zip code. “
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“However, — *Tap* *Tap* Is this thing on? — we must start geocoding stories…”
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“If in the first eight years of the 21st century contextual text advertising has proven to be the magic potion, then it is safe to say that the next decade or so is going to be about location-relevant advertising and marketing messages.”
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“The service, an intelligent news aggregator, uses A.I.-like technology to determine your interests and then adapts to show you the news stories you will find most interesting.”
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“xFruits appears to do all sorts of clever things with RSS feeds including not just aggregation but also taking email and turning it into RSS, outputting RSS in mobile friendly and other formats, etc. I decided to give it a go.”
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Bubblegen’s Umair Haque is now also blogging at the Harvard Business site.
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Should be useful for surveys: “We’re really excited to bring you forms! Create a form in a Google Docs spreadsheet and send it out to anyone with an email address.”
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“In a Google search for AP’s top stories of 2007, blogs beat the New York Times by 4-1.”
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“That’s design over expectation and habit. The mouse over drop downs get short shrift because people learn how to use a site by using it.”
links for 2008-02-11
11 February 2008 · No Comments
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