Firefox 4 Beta showed off its multitouch capability recently and the brave designers who are designing news websites may have to get used to a future in which browsers will routinely boast of touch based features.
So, that kind of interactivity will be not be restricted to those who have iPads or similar devices - Firefox’s [...]

Should news organisations boldly go the cloud computing way to cut costs and improve efficiency?  Coupled with this is another question: how can open source too be made use of in this regard?
A recent article in CIO outlined how Toby Wright, CTO of the Telegraph Media Group, spelt out the benefits that Daily Telegraph [...]

Google has come up with a Wordpress plugin that will make it possible for many to try out its experimental Living Stories model of news presentation themselves.
The Living Stories model was centered on an ongoing news development - a kind of a news thread - that would be updated with new stories and associated content.

I [...]

Even if you have been innundated with reviews of the iPad and its possible impact on the media industry, this post from Nieman Journalism Lab, which delves a bit more into how news sites have so far approached content presentation on this new gadget, should be worth a read.
Three approaches have been adopted: ’swiping or [...]

Being able  add annotations to original source material and open them up to public view adds an entirely new dimension to reporting; and this is what New York Times has just done with version 2 of its document viewer.
Its this kind of innovation that will take journalism to the next level. Innovation that is vital [...]

Most news sites don’t generally pay much attention to developing internal search; though search, after navigation, is perhaps the important tool visitors use to find content.
And here, the quality of a news site’s internal search is an important factor and there’s no point in having search that offers no better results than Google does.
Often [...]

“A new online tool that, well, isn’t exactly going to revolutionize journalism,”  is how a Washington Post article described it.
“It’s called a living story page, and Google executives are touting it as their contribution to the beleaguered newspaper business,” it went on to say.
New York Times, the other participant in the experiment, had this to [...]

Some news sites have had to contend with the trickle of reader comments that might have been made about them via Google’s Sidewiki.
Sidewiki, as I have written here earlier, is a Google plugin that makes it possible for visitors to share comments on sites, and it has nothing to do with any native comment [...]

Google News has introduced some changes in the sitemap protocol that news sites use to submit sitemaps to it.
Google has introduced three tags - publication - to specify the name and language of the publication publishing the article; genres - to describe the "nature of the article as a comma-separated list chosen from: PressRelease, [...]

Finding ways of enticing users to explore the huge reservoir of news resources hidden beneath the front and section pages of news sites is a huge challenge for them.
It’s clear that conventional multi-tiered navigation can go only part of the way in opening up these resources to users in a useful manner and facilitate what’s [...]

Its time to think of the possible ways in which media and news sites could  take advantage of the emerging user environment in which browsers will increasingly support HTML 5 and the direct rendering of audio and video.
It might be more of an exciting idea than reality now in practical terms, but browsers (at least [...]