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YouTube Gets a Makeover: Launches New Video Player and Video Pages
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 21, 2010 11:22 AM / 14 Comments

youtube_logo_july07.pngYouTube just launched a streamlined video player and redesigned video pages. The new video pages give YouTube a more minimalist and streamlined look, with a stronger focus on the video. For now, these new features are opt-in only. It is not clear when Google plans to make this new design the default theme for YouTube.

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LinkedIn Reveals New Look, Better Navigation
Written by Sarah Perez / November 6, 2009 5:57 AM / 8 Comments

Some LinkedIn users will have noticed a change to the navigation and user interface of the LinkedIn.com website, announces a company blog post. The business-focused social network is in the process of rolling out an updated design that aims to improve and simplify site navigation while also offering a cleaner, less-cluttered look. Does the fresh coat of paint hit the mark?

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Notable: Closing the Feedback Loop for Web Designers
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 8, 2009 10:01 AM / 0 Comments

notableapp_logo_oct09.pngZURB, a well-known Bay Area design and consulting firm that has worked with the likes of Facebook, eBay and Britney Spears, decided to release one of the tools it built internally to annotate web designs to the public a short while ago. Notable is completely web based and works best in Firefox - though the company also released an iPhone app that makes working on iPhone app designs easier as well. In the browser, you simply surf to a site, hit the Notable button, and a little menu will pop up that lets you annotate any part of the web page or see the source code of the page and annotate this as well.

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Sponsor Post: "Good Enough" Is the Bare Minimum
Written by RWW Sponsor / September 10, 2009 5:25 AM / 2 Comments

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Senior Wired Magazine editor Robert Capps penned an article titled "The Good Enough Revolution" for Wired's September 2009 edition. The print edition included the daring (and perhaps intentionally provocative) subtitle "Why lo-fi tech will rule the world."

This rings of an absolutism, and such rings set off our antennae.

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Beyond the Box: The "Televisual Experience"
Written by RWW Sponsor / July 6, 2009 3:55 AM / 4 Comments

Aplus.netEditor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products.

From mobile computing to multi-touch, user interfaces continue to evolve, becoming part of our daily lives. As a Web host, it's with great interest that we're also following the "10-foot user experience," an idea that emerged a few years ago and has been much talked about since. But technology now seems to be catching up to this exciting concept, thanks to innovators like Frog Design and the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group.

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AccuTerra iPhone Maps win Apple Design Award
Written by Dana Oshiro / June 10, 2009 4:42 PM / 6 Comments

accuterra_iphone_jun09.jpg Anyone who has read the tragic true story Into the Wild will understand why Intermap's AccuTerra for iPhone is an amazing and possibly lifesaving service. While many map-based applications utilize Google maps and require a wireless connection, AccuTerra and competitor GPS Motion X let recreational adventurers view maps of U.S. national and state parks, both online and offline from their iPhones. It's not surprising AccuTerra was just awarded an Apple Design Award for best iPhone OS 3.0 Beta App.

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AmpliFeeder: FriendFeed's Much Hotter Sister
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 25, 2009 6:29 PM / 28 Comments

There are a slew of social media aggregation sites willing, waiting, and wanting to pull your updates, videos, photos, links, music, "shares," "likes," and other content from all around the web. A few of them work well, some have really cool features, and others have critical mass.

But none of them are as drop-dead good-looking - or as customizable - as AmpliFeeder, a free, open-source distributed social activity aggregator. The only major drawback: It's the kind of web app that needs to be installed on a server. But a hosted version is in the works, and the screen shots prove it's so worth the effort.

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Minority Report Interfaces: Coming to a Screen Near You
Written by Richard MacManus / May 22, 2009 4:00 AM / 13 Comments

Dale Herigstad, Chief Creative Officer at design firm Schematic, spoke today at the XML Auckland conference. Herigstad worked with Steven Spielberg on the conceptual design for the film Minority Report, including designing the hologram screens on which Tom Cruise used his hands to navigate.

The subject of Herigstad's presentation today was new forms of User Interfaces for Web, TV and other media. Examples of the interfaces he discussed were touch screen and "distance gestures" - the latter being what Cruise was doing in Minority Report. Herigstad showed some real world examples of distance gestures, mostly from the TV/movie industry.

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The New FriendFeed: Real-Time, Direct Messages, Better Filters
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 6, 2009 9:44 AM / 5 Comments

friendfeed_logo_sep08.jpgFriendFeed opened up a new beta today that introduces a completely revamped real-time user interface, as well as a number of interesting new features, including direct messages, the ability to share posts more selectively, better searches and filters, as well as a number of other smaller changes that make the new user interface very different from its predecessor.

FriendFeed has regularly made changes to its UI, but this new design is clearly the biggest change yet.

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Zeldman Releases Web Standards Plug-in for Dreamweaver
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 12, 2009 8:37 AM

Web design guru Jeffrey Zeldman celebrated his birthday today by releasing a plug-in for Dreamweaver that checks for and alerts users of web standards shortcomings in their design. Jeffrey Zeldman's Web Standards Advisor costs $49.99 but Zeldman says even he found some embarrassing errors in his own blog's code - something that can effect search engine visibility and thus the bottom line of any business on the web.

Though Dreamweaver catches a lot of flack from cynics, many people still use it and the design software is said to be much improved in recent years. Zeldman's new tool is worth checking out.

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Today is the Second Annual Blue Beanie Day
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 28, 2008 10:12 AM / 7 Comments

zeldmanbook.jpgToday marks the second annual "Blue Beanie Day," an international online event in support of web design standards and accessibility. Participants post photos of themselves wearing blue beanies, or stocking caps, to their various online accounts in honor of web standards guru Jeffrey Zeldman. Zeldman's blue beanie dominated the photo on the cover of his widely loved 2003 book, Designing With Web Standards.

We're big fans of web standards here at ReadWriteWeb and we'll tell you why.

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Casual Internet Use Is Good for Kids, 3 Year Study Concludes
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 20, 2008 10:16 AM / 4 Comments

The ways young people use the internet everyday are transforming learning in ways that adults often fail to understand but represent major new opportunities that need to be taken advantage of by supportive educators. kidstudy.jpgThat's the conclusion of a major new study by 28 researchers over three years released today by the University of California at Berkley and the MacArthur Foundation.

Titled "Living and Learning With New Media," the study articulates the value of social networking, text messaging and other forms of new media use better than anything we've seen yet. It's a major contribution to our understanding of the new web and the way it impacts the world at large.

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Man Writes Software, Blogs About it, Makes $100k in 5 Months
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 14, 2008 8:16 AM / 13 Comments

We love this story. Back in July we wrote about the inspiring experience of Peldi Guilizzoni, a lone software developer who'd built a web design mock-up tool called Balsamiq and who was opening up his financial records on his blog to show everyone how things were going. We'd been following his progress since before he launched, but just 6 weeks after Balsamiq hit the market at roughly $79 per license, we wrote that Peldi had already made $10k in revenue.

That was a cute story, but now it's been just 5 months and today Peldi reports that he's just cleared $100,000 in sales of the four variations of his product. Talk about a simple tool coming along at just the right time! It's cool software, too.

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Now Share Anything From Netvibes Via Facebook Connect, Twitter
Written by Sarah Perez / November 14, 2008 7:06 AM / 5 Comments

Netvibes, one of the many personalized homepage products available today, has just announced a new feature which allows users to share anything from their Netvibes pages - not just tabs, but also articles, widgets, and RSS feeds. This new feature allows those items to be shared via integration with two of the most popular social networks: Twitter and Facebook, the latter being powered by Facebook Connect. What's not to love? As it turns out, based on the comments found on the Netvibes blog, users are not happy about this change.

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Yahoo Tests New Front Page - May Eventually Replace My Yahoo!
Written by Frederic Lardinois / November 12, 2008 11:54 AM / 5 Comments

yahoo_logo_purple_nov08.pngYahoo today announced that it is bucket testing a new design of its front page. The new design was built on top of the latest version of Yahoo's UI Library, which, according to Yahoo, will accelerate performance and give third-party developers the ability to easily create applications for the new front page. It is not clear when this new design will become widely available, but for now, it is only available to a random subset of Yahoo's users.

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AOL Redesigns and Opens Up a Little Bit More
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 30, 2008 10:53 AM

aol_logo_oct08.jpgWhen Google radically changed its iGoogle homepage a little while ago, many of its users were up in arms about these changes. By updating its homepage today, AOL ran a similar risk, but instead of making radical changes to the design of the page, AOL managed to include a lot of new functionality on the new homepage without shocking its users with a completely new layout. The new features of the AOL homepage are mostly centered around adding support for third-party social networking services.

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MySpace Profile 2.0 Takes Visual Cues From Facebook
Written by Corvida / October 26, 2008 11:00 AM / 41 Comments

Earlier this month we asked if Facebook was becoming more like MySpace. We noted that there were new apps cropping up that were making Facebook look a lot more like MySpace. MySpace has started to open up alpha testing for its Profile 2.0 service. We caught a sneak peek and it seems that now MySpace is now taking a few visual cues from Facebook.

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FriendFeed Updates Beta Interface
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 12, 2008 2:03 PM / 5 Comments

friendfeed_logo_sep08.jpgJust a few weeks ago, we reported that FriendFeed had released a new beta version of its site to test a new design for the popular lifestreaming service. Today, FriendFeed released a significant update to this design, which adds some much needed enhancements to the user interface. Specifically, the navigation of the FriendFeed beta site has now been switched to the left, and the post form can no longer be confused with the search form.

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User Experience: Learning from the Pros
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / September 9, 2008 12:41 PM / 16 Comments

flowlogo.jpgThere are more startup tech companies launching this week than almost anyone can keep track of, but any time a new service launches - one thing is key to its survival. The initial User Experience has to be compelling or any new application is going to be passed up in favor of whatever shiny object is next in line.

What's a company to do? Luckily, there are people who specialize in the field of User Experience (UX) and many of them share their best practices freely. We see applications all the time that are based on a great idea but are poorly designed in a way that leaves us frustrated and unlikely to return as users. Below are some of our favorite resources for companies that want to smarten-up quickly about User Experience.

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Facebook Didn't Want to Sue StudiVZ
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 8, 2008 10:42 AM / 7 Comments

facebook-logo.pngAccording to a report in the International Herald Tribune, Facebook tried to acquire the popular German social network StudiVZ. When those negotiations ended without a deal, Facebook decided to sue StudiVZ instead for copying Facebook's look and feel. According to the article, StudiVZ's owners, the German media company Holtzbrinck Gruppe, wanted to sell, but for far more than the $134 million it originally paid for StudiVZ in 2007.

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