Rethinking Gawker’s Redesign

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

Kayak’s Web Site Takes Its Influence From Mobile for Its Latest Design

Don’t worry, you’ll still recognize it — especially if you use Kayak’s iPad app.
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Twitter Redesigns to Be Simpler and Faster

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.
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StumbleUpon Gets a Face-Lift and Some Boldfaced Names

StumbleUpon, the social discovery engine that was famously acquired by eBay, only to take itself private again two years later, is reinventing itself again.
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YouTube Redesigns Around “Channels” Strategy

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.

The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Retrospective

Of the 25 posts CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published on Facebook’s corporate blog in the past five years — including today’s acknowledging a long-term privacy settlement with the FTC — I count 10 that were written to address complaints.
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Amazon Tests Web Site Redesign

Amazon.com Inc. said it is testing a major redesign of its website, an overhaul that could refashion the way people shop on the world’s largest online retailer.

Facebook Makes Sharing More Granular (Hmm … Where Have We Heard That Pitch Before?)

Facebook will attempt to address some perceived weaknesses of its interface by making content sharing more precise and visual in a redesign that launches this week.
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Gawker Gets Into the TV Business — The Japanese Cult Hit Game Show TV Business

Nick Denton says he wants his blog empire to be more than a blog empire — he wants it to be like TV. So here’s the next logical step: He’s going to start running a TV show on one of his blogs.
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Welcome to the AllThingsD Redesign!

No, you’re not on the wrong site. And, yes, this is All Things D. A whole new redesign of All Things D, that is. Here’s a guide to make the transition easier.
All Things Digital for 2011

New Facebook Profiles Susceptible to Pranks

Google Now a Bit More Bing-Like