• How media companies can design a good Web navigation bar

  “here are tips for media companies to create a user-friendly navigation menu. There’s no one-size-fits all approach, but this advice from experts can be broadly applied to many types of media companies. “

  tags: media design website navigation

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• Publishers must focus on the open Web, not Android, to gain upper hand with Apple | Poynter.

  “The launch of the Motorola Xoom tablet last month has rekindled hopes that Android tablets may take a bite out of Apple’s dominance of mobile publishing. But for media companies, “Apple vs. Android” is a false choice.”

  tags: publishers apps internet newspaperbusinessmodels

• StatCounter: Android tops BlackBerry globally for the first time

  “The tracking service reports that users are rapidly turning to their mobile devices to access the Internet, instead of their desktop computers, doubling worldwide from 1.72% a year ago to 4.45% today. U.S mobile users also indicate the same trend, with use increasing from 2.59% in the past year to 6.32%.”

  tags: android statcounter smartphones internet

• Ars reviews the Motorola Xoom

  “Although the Xoom has a lot to offer, the product feels very incomplete. A surprising number of promised hardware and software features are not functional at launch and will have to be enabled in future updates. The Xoom’s quality is also diminished by some of the early technical issues and limitations that we encountered in Honeycomb. Google’s nascent tablet software has a ton of potential, but it also has some feature gaps and rough edges that reflect its lack of maturity. “

  tags: reviews xoom motorola tablets android

• Matt Waite: To build a digital future for news, developers must be able to hack at the core of old systems » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

  “And that is the source of my disappointment. All this talk about a digital future, about moving journalism onto the web, about innovation and saving journalism is just talk until developers are allowed to hack at the very core of the whole product. To argue otherwise is to argue that the story form, largely unchanged from print, is perfect and to change it is unnecessary. Hogwash.”

  tags: digital news programming

• iPads: The Creative Process In Process – Recorded Sessions | Reynolds Journalism Institute | University of Missouri

  Later this week, recorded sessions from an all-day workshop at the University of Missouri School of Journalism about iPad development.

  tags: ipads process creative

• Faster Forward – Adobe releases Flash to HTML5 converter

  “Adobe has announced its release of Wallaby, a drag-and-drop tool used to convert the company’s Flash files into HTML 5. The program is available to developers through Adobe’s Labs Web site. According to the company’s release notes for the program, users can view the output file in one of the supported browsers or on an iOS device. The company also notes that not all of the features of Flash Professional are supported in HTML5. “

  tags: adobe flash iOS html5

• A note from the editor: on Twitter ads | Connect2Mason

  “As of two weeks ago, our primary Twitter feeds, @connect2mason, @GMUStudentMedia and @FairfaxVANews, have launched sponsored tweets. This is our first month and we are continually seeking to fine-tune the process. We’ve already received some feedback and we want to explain what’s going on—and why—in more than 140 characters.”

  tags: twitter journalism advertising

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• Twitter Isn’t Journalism, Or Is It? Perhaps It’s the Wrong Question to Ask Brian Solis

  Apparently, the “is blogging journalism?” question is dead, now it’s “Is tweeting journalism?”

  tags: journalism twitter

• Demand Media Buys Liveblogging Tool CoverItLive

  “On the heels of its entry to the public market, content farm Demand Media has just acquired CoverItLive, a liveblogging tool. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.”

  tags: socialmedia coveritlive

• Using Twitter to increase safety awareness

  “In the past week, an as-yet-unidentified man has been entering unlocked homes in Chapel Hill and stroking the legs of women while they sleep. This is of course unwelcome and jarring news, particularly for those in the quiet college town that surrounds UNC, where three years ago this week the student body president was kidnapped and brutally killed (her door was also unlocked). The Daily Tar Heel has been on the story since the first incident last Friday, and since then I’ve mulled how I could use our social media accounts to make students aware of the potential threat.”

  tags: blog socialmedia safety

• MediaShift Idea Lab . Telling Better Stories by Designing Custom Maps Using TileMill | PBS

  The trick now is to radically reduce the barrier to entry for making these overlays and custom base maps. This is the exact goal we had for our recently released TileMill, which is fully open sourced and built on top of fantastic open source tools.

  tags: mediashift mappingdata

• Takeaways for journalists from today’s Apple announcement: Better reporting tools and an ebook boom » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

  “The iPad is a wonderful device for couches and beds. It’s been less great for getting work done — particularly the kind of app-hopping work that many journalists do. The primary reason is that the iPad 1 didn’t have enough RAM to consistently keep several web pages open at the same time. If you’re assembling writing a deadline story by shuffling between something in Gmail, four open webpages, plus the web entry of your CMS, the iPad’s memory would run out and force you to reload those pages — sometimes meaning you’d lose the work in progress on that CMS page.”

  tags: journalism ipad apple

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