In light of the ongoing UEFA Euro 2008 football (yes, I mean soccer) tournament – which I must say has been pretty average apart from the Turkey/Czech Republic thriller last weekend – yet another social networking site was launched. The niche? You guessed it, soccer. Or football, or futbol, or footy,...
Continue ReadingYesterday, the New York Times launched a beta version of Times People, a lightweight social networking feature that allows readers to connect around NYT content. Currently, Times People can only be used as a plugin in Firefox (this will change soon) and functions as a social bookmarking tool similar to del.icio.us or Mento. ...
Continue ReadingThe Las Vegas Sun is known for having one of the best websites of any newspaper in the country. The reputation is warranted.
In my experience as a web developer, I’ve found many sites that do a few things well. A site might have a nice homepage and a few cool features,...
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The Newseum website has an awesome feature that shows the up-to-date front pages of the print editions of 630 newspapers in 63 countries. Check it out and kill an hour....
Continue ReadingFledging company UserVoice is attempting to provide focus groups to those companies that cannot afford focus groups. The site's general idea is to moderate user ideas and complaints by means of formal comment boxes, polls, and ranking systems. The three-person ‘Team UserVoice' is quoted as saying, "UserVoice adds structure to feedback and reduces the overhead of an honest dialog with our users –...
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