By TWMG
It was recently announced that social networking leader Facebook has purchased Push Pop Press, a digital book software company founded by Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, two veterans of Apple. Moreover, Matas is the primary designer of many of the key interfaces on the iPhone, iPad, and Macs that most people who use these devices … Continue reading “Facebook Going E-Book?”
By TWMG
Businesses are rushing to protect their identity from the new .XXX domain names that will be available soon. According to Easyspace, one of the UK’s largest Web hosting companies, 8 out of 10 businesses that are pre-registering their interest in the triple X domain names are not part of the adult industry. “As we expected, … Continue reading “A Variety of Businesses Interested in .XXX”
By TWMG
If only the rest of the world could be this peaceful.
Late last week the news broke that the developers at Mozilla and Google were going to work together on a framework called Web Intents, which is designed to allow Web apps to easily become compatible with both Firefox and Chrome, each company’s respective brower. Web … Continue reading “Firefox and Chrome Team Up for Web App Compatibility”
By TWMG
LiveChat, the real-time software and Web analytics tool for e-commerce merchants, has launched LiveChat for iPad, giving support and sales teams the freedom to monitor and assist website visitors anytime, anywhere.
The new iPad app joins a growing family of mobile LiveChat apps designed to help online companies deliver better customer service and higher sales, including … Continue reading “LiveChat Releases iPad App”
By TWMG
The findings of a new survey show that consumers’ expectations for mobile and application performance are not being met.
Today’s mobile users demand exceptional Web experiences and highly satisfying, convenient, on-the-go mobile site speeds regardless of their mode of access, according to a study from technology performance company Compuware Corporation. The independent survey of more than … Continue reading “Most Mobile Sites and Apps Lagging in Performance”
By TWMG
Have you ever had a domain stolen? While not all that common, it is for many domain name owners – both buyers and sellers – a serious problem in need of a solution. New service DomainTheft.org, founded by domain name investor Morgan Linton, aims to curb domain theft, one of the Internet’s most serious … Continue reading “Domain Theft and Security in Focus”
By TWMG
A new hosted service from Google will analyze the performance of your website’s pages and rewrite the code to make them load faster for users. Page Speed Service fetches content from your servers, rewrites your pages by applying Web performance best practices and serves them to end users via Google’s servers. To what extent your … Continue reading “Google Service to Increase Page Speeds by 60 Percent”
By TWMG
An objective opinion is one of the most valuable, easily obtainable yet underutilized commodities in business. It is especially important for e-commerce professionals to receive outside feedback on their websites, as they are often so close to the process that they lack the most important perspective of all — that of the consumer.
Third-party user testing … Continue reading “Six Ways to Test Your E-commerce Site”
By TWMG
On the heels of .co’s first anniversary, it has proven a very successful year for the young domain extension. A year after .co’s global launch, more than 1 million domain names have been registered, and the first time renewal rate is exceeding expectations, which is currently at 66 percent— and that is without counting late … Continue reading “.CO is Exceeding Expectations after One Year”
By TWMG
We, the people who make websites, have been talking for fifteen years about user experience, information architecture, content management systems, coding, metadata, visual design, user research, and all the other disciplines that facilitate our users’ abilities to find and consume content.
Weirdly, though, we haven’t been talking about the meat of the matter. We haven’t been … Continue reading “The Discipline of Content Strategy”
