Should news sites welcome Google’s Sidewiki, or view it with caution? Or indifference?
Sidewiki is a comment sharing tool that enables users to comment on a webpage or even a part of it. It is built into the Google toolbar and integrates itself with the browser, once downloaded and installed.
A recent explanation on the [...]

For a website that deals with science news based on the press releases issued by a group of US-based academic institutions, the folks at Futurity: Discover the Future have done quite a good job. 
A clean, vibrant home page with an unambiguous navigation interface makes the site quite an appealing one. Maybe, it could be [...]

Google News has started clearly identifying news sites’ blog content with a ‘blog’ label.
This makes it easy for users to distinguish between such blog content and regular news stories listed on its pages.
A post in the Google News blog said: "As you may know, we’ve always included some blogs from news organizations in Google News. [...]

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 [...]

Google News had recently said in a blog post that the ’suggest’ (or auto-suggest) feature had just been incorporated into the site.
‘Suggest’ has been a feature of mainstream Google search since 2008 and its creators had said then that it was meant to make the task of entering search terms easier by helping users [...]

Horizontal navigation schemes seem to be becoming more prominent and bolder, going by recent news site redesigns. The fonts have become larger and the colours more striking. Take a look.