Like them or not, interstitial ads, which are advertisements that appear before visitors arrive at the expected site content, have become a part of our day-to-day web browsing experience. I personally don’t mind interstitial ads all that much, as I’ve gotten used to them and have gotten pretty good at locating the skip button as a way of quickly getting to the content I’m actually looking for....
Continue ReadingAs part of my research for a project we are working on, I recently looked at the websites of around one hundred U.S.-based think tanks to see what the best practices are. All and all, this was an inspiring set of websites and not nearly as extraordinary as the list of best university sites I put together recently,...
Continue ReadingCheck out Ning CEO Gina Bianchini being interviewed by Charlie Rose. It is a good interview, made better by the fact that one of our clients, the Pickens Plan, is mentioned as an example of how custom social networks can be used in the public affairs / political space. 🙂...
Continue ReadingMy colleague Andrew MacDowell pointed me to this interesting BBC data visualization of the 100 most popular sites on the Internet. Check it out. Interesting thing I learned: Facebook appears to be more dominant in the social networking space than Google is in search. Interesting thing I learned number 2: MySpace is no longer a top 100 site. ...
Continue ReadingLast week, I wrote a post about Georgetown University’s process for redesigning its website. As I drafted the piece, I developed a working thesis that university websites are sort of like government sites, in that they have to do so much and serve so many audiences that the designs end up being utilitarian and bland. ...
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