Archive / January 2010

A huge asset to all businesses currently using or undergoing the social media transition on Twitter will now have the option of broadcasting and targeting national tweets. Twitter unvailed on 27/01/2010 that you can now target certain trending topics to your country thus filtering out any unwanted information from other countries.

Here is a collection of 6 spectacular storytelling websites you have to see for you daily inspiration.

ipad6Apple CEO Steve Jobs presents the new Apple iPad at a company event in San Francisco.

When in 2007 Apple launched the iPhone not only reinvented the phone but it also introduced a revolutionary user experience that has changed definitively the way to browse the Web with a mobile device then before.
In that same period, I remember browsing the Web with a Nokia or Windows Mobile phone was an arduous undertaking: webpages was unreadable on small screens on portable devices, slow to render in mobile browsers and all available options that allowed users to fit pages to screen (for increasing readability) was ridiculously worse than the problem they was trying to fix…

We all know Street View, the Google service that provides 360° panoramic views for many streets in the world. Immersive Media is working on an evolution of Street View that provides 360°, full motion, interactive video experience.

Antonio Lupetti The Death of Tag Clouds

January 20, 2010 - Posted by Antonio Lupetti in Popular, Web Design

In 2004, the Web 2.0 philosophy introduced a new paradigm for the Web that also marked a huge change of direction in the approach to design websites than before. Tag Cloud was probably one of the most popular elements which characterized that period in web design. But are tag clouds really useful?

Everyone these days is interacting through online groups on Facebook, real-time feeds on Twitter, real-time searching with One-Riot and getting their website-of-the-day from automatically generated lists such as Newsified. A web article that was hot one day probably isn’t going to be hot the day after because there will be another one in its place. Social Media changes shape every day, in fact it’s changing the web every second…

Hi woorkuppers, this is Stefano. I’m new on woorkup, from now I will start writing posts about Social Media highlighting specific topics (Marketing, Strategies, Monitoring, Trends). So let’s start. This time I’d like to show my personal playlist of the best 2009 Social Media Presentations. I don’t like very long lists so I selected just 10 presentations found on SlideShare. Enjoy!

The Web is evolving fast: new features, formats, user needs, continuously change the way we interact with websites. In this post I want to suggest you some interesting emerging techniques every web developer should know in order to build modern web applications.

2010 will be the years of consolidation of internet usage via mobile devices. According to internetnews.com, which reports a Gartner analysis, mobile device sales will rise (9%) in 2010. This scenario will impose to internet companies, online newspapers, bloggers, to provide mobile versions of their websites to simplify the fruition of their contents and enlarge their audience. In this post I prepared a roundup of code snippets inspired to some mobile versions of popular websites (such as Facebook, Flickr, The New York Times, Digg, Google, …) that illustrate some HTML best practices to develop perfect websites for iPhone and mobile Devices.

Yesterday I downloaded the new version of the Facebook application for iPhone 3.1 that introduces new useful features such as address book synchronization and push notifications. I think this application is great, useful, I like the interface and the simplicity of use. But I noticed two serious problems that can discourage its use.

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