Posts tagged with 'Big Media'
The Financial Times began rolling out changes to its website earlier this week, with a new look and very pink homepage being the first major update.
This is the first stage of an ongoing redesign process and so far it looks like a big improvement. I've taken a closer look at the changes...
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by Graham Charlton
13 November 2008 08:45am
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I spend a lot of time on newspaper and other publishers' sites, and am often amazed at how bad their site search functions can be.
A lot of sites have been redesigned over the past year or so, and have improved a lot, but their search functions can still be patchy.
Here are a few thoughts on how they could be improved...
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by Graham Charlton
07 November 2008 08:40am
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Yahoo has had a chip on its shoulder about search, aka ‘Google’, for years. The brand name synonymous with search isn’t Yahoo. Big deal.
Obviously it is a very big deal for Jerry Yang, but in focusing on the battle for ‘search’ Yahoo has forgotten about what really matters: advertisers.
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by Chris Lake
06 November 2008 14:25pm
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How should a website handle errors? What kind of information and messages should be presented to the user? And will a one-size fits all approach do the job?
Our own 404 page is pretty lame, so we’ve been thinking about the various ways in which we can improve things, as part of our year-long project to provide you with a glorious new E-consultancy website (due in early-2009).
I have also analysed the 404 pages of 10 of the most popular news sites, to see how other publishers are faring.
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by Chris Lake
05 November 2008 13:56pm
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The BBC just can't get its external links policy right, it seems, and is now denying external websites valuable link juice by the way it links out.
Patrick at Blogstorm has noticed that the site's external links, normally displayed to the right of its articles, are being passed through redirect scripts.
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by Graham Charlton
04 November 2008 09:30am
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The New York Post recently reported that Facebook, perhaps spurred on by the launch of MySpace Music, is now serious about pursuing a music service of its own.
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by Drama 2.0
30 October 2008 08:45am
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Roger Warner at Content & Motion has devised a handy cut-out-and-keep wallchart to help define and explain online PR.
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by Chris Lake
29 October 2008 13:41pm
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Times are tough for newspaper executives.
The newspaper industry's woes were highlighted once again last week when The New York Times Company posted a quarterly loss from continuing operations and announced that it would have to write down the value of some of its assets by over $100m.
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by Drama 2.0
27 October 2008 09:00am
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Wired’s senior editor Paul Boutin has climbed aboard the 'blogging is dead' train, pointing to Jason Calacanis’ decision to quit blogging as a primary reason to bail out.
The article starts: “Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.”
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by Chris Lake
24 October 2008 15:10pm
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eMarketer has published a timely post on the endurance limits of web users in relation to one of the lamest online ad formats know to man, aka the floating overlay.
By looking at data provided by Dynamic Logic, the firm found that the average person can tolerate two sucky ads per hour, before doing an Assault on Precinct 13 in the comfort of their own office. Doing a Rambo might be more appropriate...
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by Chris Lake
14 October 2008 10:53am
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