Usability expert Jakob Nielsen has released the findings of a study he did on iPad usability, which should prove particularly useful to news sites, because many of them have gone the iPad way big time. Useful because some of his observations are about how news sites are moulding interface design for the iPad. The study…
If you’d like to know how metadata – the layer of information that makes it possible for machines to decode the kind of information that’s there on the site – will be used by news sites to structure and present content, then head to the International Press Telecommunications’ site and check out a series of…
Associated Press (AP) is moving away from Flash and "experimenting with HTML5 to make content that works across different devices," said a recent post on the Nieman Journalism Lab blog. HTML 5 is important because the new generation of web-browsers offer support for HTML 5, or at least many of its specifications, making it easier…
How do disasters impact the flow of traffic to news sites, especially the mobile platform? Opera has come up with this graphic which analyzes how mobile traffic to different sites changed in the wake of the Japan earthquake. Starting from March 10, the day before the earthquake, through March 15 the user stats for Opera…
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