In addition to German industry experts, Page also asked me for some input on the topic.
Unfortunately, the article about the web is not available online, but it is well worth purchasing the magazine.
The report gives a good insight into how people work on usability and describes many different methods. It is especially worthwhile for those [...]

Actually multitouch tables are designed to work completely intuitively. Unlike standard touch screens, the multitouch technology allows for use of more than one finger for controlling the screen, thus enabling interaction with gestures. Such a user interface is also referred to as a Natural User Interface (NUI) because elements of that interface can be handled [...]

Article rankings are a tool widely used among online newspapers and social networks. Sometimes they come as little widgets in the margin while at other times, rankings are the website’s main feature.
There are many ways to rank articles, but what is good for your website and how effective are these ranking systems?

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At re:publica 09 I attended a very interesting workshop held by Bicyclemark about Twitter and journalism.
I did some research of my own; a short abstract on this topic can be found below.

Can Twitter be a substitute for professional journalism?
There have been some occasions when an event has been reported on Twitter before it has been [...]

Recently, some interesting concepts emerged about how consumers can save energy and carbon dioxide with tools on the web.
The basic idea is to gather data about your personal energy consumption and to draw conclusions from this.

WattzOn set up a database that covers the average energy needs of most things you will use or benefit [...]

What will the future of online journalism look like?
According to the New York Times – currently the benchmark for news websites – quality news is soon going to be free and all over the web.
The NYT has released a couple of open interfaces (APIs)
to their database. With these APIs, users are free to build applications [...]

The Microsoft Office labs released a nice video presenting their vision of the year 2019.
It features multitouch screens and sensors everywhere, interacting devices and amazing gadgets such as electronic newspapers.
You will most likely find some inspiration even for designing today’s interfaces and interactions.
I would have loved to be part of one of these creative sessions. [...]