Web Design

Xignite offers 10 tips for spicing up your site with financial data

October 5, 2009

Xignite, a financial market data service provider, has 10 tips for spicing up your Web site with financial information: 1. Real-time Stock Quotes–The recent financial crisis has made everyone sensitive to the daily ups and downs of the stock market. Luckily, technology changes on Wall Street over the last ten years have made access to [...]

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Gomez intros free Web site compatibility tool

June 25, 2009

Gomez, a company that analyzes Web site usability, yesterday introduced a free Web-based tool that automatically tests how Web sites look in four commonly-used combinations of browsers and operating systems. Enter a URL into the Gomez Cross-Browser Compatibility Test and the tool will produce screen captures of the Web page in each browser and OS [...]

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Visual complexity made simple

May 11, 2009

Infographics are a hot button for me. I prefer a chart, graph, word cloud—anything visual–to help me understand data, cause and effect, or complex networks. Like many people, I don’t process numbers well. I came across Visual Complexity recently and I want to pass it along. The site belongs to Manuel Lima, an interaction designer, [...]

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I’m willing to pay for news, but I want a sandwich in return

May 10, 2009

Media czar Rupert Murdoch said last week that News Corp’s newspaper Web sites will start charging for their content within the next year. The existing business model is “malfunctioning,” Murdoch said. He added the company will not make its content available on Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader. News Corp, owns the Wall Street Journal and New [...]

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Webby Awards winners announced

May 6, 2009

The Webby Awards,  said to be the “Internet’s Oscars,” were announced today. The annual (the thirteenth) Webby Awards honor excellence on the Internet including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video and Mobile Websites (about 70 categories in all). The awards are judged by the International Academy of  Digital Arts & Sciences, a global organization [...]

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What your blog says about your personality

March 29, 2009

Mattias Östmar of PRfekt, a Swedish media analysis and research company, has set up a new Web site that analyzes blog text based on word choice and usage and intuits the personality of the person who wrote it. Enter your blog’s URL into Typealyzer to find out what the site says about your blogging style [...]

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Trillion is the new billion

March 13, 2009

Want to get a handle on how far 1 trillion will go these days? Take a look at the line up of infographics at Mint.

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Online publishers commit to introducing larger, more interactive and compelling ad units

March 10, 2009

The Online Publishers Association announced earlier today plans to run bigger and flashier banner ads on their sites starting July 1. The trade group represents a combined, unduplicated reach of 108.3 million visitors, or 66 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience. This group of sites also represents 8.17 billion total minutes of time spent [...]

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Time spent on social nets and blogs surpasses time spent on email

March 9, 2009

Social networks and blogs, has become the fourth most popular online category–ahead of personal email, according to a new study from The Nielsen Company. In “Global Faces and Networked Places,” Nielsen reports two-thirds (67 percent) of the world’s global online population use these “member communities.”  The category is growing twice as fast as any of [...]

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GOOD’s infographics puts the financial meltdown into perspective

March 4, 2009

I‘m a fan of GOOD, a site that is “a collaboration of individuals, businesses and nonprofits…who have been making a magazine, videos and events for people who give a damn.” One of the things I like about the site is its use of infographics to explain complex ideas. If you’ve ever looked at an issue [...]

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