Mike Isaac in Social on May 22 at 1:00 pm PT
Socialcam has millions of users. So how will it keep them all?
News Byte
Mike Isaac in Social on May 14 at 1:45 pm PT
Facebook on Monday introduced a minor
redesign to its News Feed product for mobile phones, changing the way photos and posts are displayed on users’ handheld devices. The tweaks come as Facebook continues to figure out a solid way of monetizing mobile access to its app, a method of entry more and more users are shifting to, according to the company. Among the changes are a 3x increase in photo display, as well as full-bleed status updates and posts.
News Byte
Mike Isaac in Social on May 7 at 1:26 pm PT
Twitter pushed out an update to its
mobile Web application on Monday, allowing users of smartphones and low-cost “feature phones” alike to view the same
Twitter redesign first unveiled in December. As the majority of the world’s cellphones are still low-end devices (a.k.a.
not smartphones), it’s a push to put the same version of Twitter in the hands of more global users — especially those who aren’t able to afford a shiny new iPhone.
Mike Isaac in Social on May 1 at 10:16 am PT
Twitter updates its “personalization signals” to try to bring more relevant content to regular users and newbies alike.
Liz Gannes in News on March 11 at 4:33 pm PT
When Google’s designers got the chance in 2011 to overhaul their company’s design, they took the opportunity and sprinted with it, as they described at SXSW today.
For obsessive Gawker watchers and redesign doom-mongers: the 35.6m uniques in Jan 2012 is record and 55% up from last April’s nadir.
– Nick Denton, via Twitter, almost a year after Gawker’s controversial redesign
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 30 at 5:02 am PT
Don’t worry, you’ll still recognize it — especially if you use Kayak’s iPad app.
Liz Gannes in Social on December 8, 2011 at 9:49 am PT
Twitter unveiled a product overhaul for its Web site and apps today that it says is simpler and faster, with navigation built around its service’s key functions.
Lauren Goode in Social on December 5, 2011 at 9:06 pm PT
StumbleUpon, the social discovery engine that was famously acquired by eBay, only to take itself private again two years later, is reinventing itself again.
Voices
Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on December 2, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
YouTube unveiled its largest redesign yet Thursday, bringing user personalization and the video Web site’s growing selection of programming topics, or “channels,” front and center.
