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UX designers: Side drawer navigation could be costing you half your user engagement

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 3:16 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Anthony Rose is co-founder and CTO of zeebox, the social network for TV. So, you have a mobile app where there are more pages or sections than can fit on a mobile screen at once. Your first thought might be to create a tabbed design, with a row of tabs along the top or buttons along the bottom. But wait… that extra row of tabs or buttons wastes a lot of valuable real estate on a small mobile display, so let’s not do that. Instead, let’s move the options into a side menu, or side drawer, as our Android team keep reminding…

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Skype for modern Windows now lets you set your availability to Invisible and brings back sign out option

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

Skype today updated its modern Windows app (read: Metro version) with two new availability options. You can download the new release now directly from the Windows Store. Here’s the Skype 2.7 for modern Windows changelog: Invisible – This option lets you still receive incoming messages, but without others knowing you’re there to read them. Just like with SMSes, you can choose to respond now or later. Sign out – Although Skype had this option before, it was removed a few versions ago, and now it’s back again. In other words, you can once again choose not to receive any messages…

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What Alibaba’s IPO means for e-tailing in the US

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 2:08 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Asia, Insider

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Julia Q. Zhu is Founder of  Observer Solutions, a China-focused e-commerce consulting and research firm. You can reach out her via LinkedIn or email. Global investors are eagerly awaiting the most talked about Chinese Internet IPO of all time. As one of China’s e-commerce pioneers, Alibaba has dominated all aspects of online commerce in China since its founding in 1999. Its version of eBay, a consumer-to-consumer online shopping marketplace called Taobao, accounts for more than 90 percent of all C2C online transactions. Its online business-to-consumer shopping mall for branded products, Tmall, accounted for 50.1 percent of market share based on transaction volume in 2013. In…

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Sesame Street now has its own dedicated video-on-demand service called Sesame GO

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Breaking Bad fan? Sign-up to Netflix. Looking to stream more recent theatrical releases? Check out Amazon Instant Video. Kids addicted to Sesame Street? Well, there’s a new kid on the VOD block just for that. Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street, has today launched Sesame GO – a kiddie-centric, advert-free service from the creators of everyone’s favorite educational TV show. The subscription-based service is available in the US only for now, and it will serve up classics and current episodes, not to mention episodes of Pinky Dinky Doo. The new platform is powered by Kaltura, the same…

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Distiller’s whisky-drinking companion app is now served on Android too

Apr08
by on April 8, 2014 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Back in February, we brought you news on Distiller for iPhone, which we said was striving to be the ultimate whisky-drinker’s companion. And today, it’s available on Android too. Distiller analyzes tens-of-thousands of data points across flavors, price, reputation, and even how well suited each whisky is to ‘gifting’. It then delivers personalized whisky (or ‘whiskey‘, if you must) recommendations from around the world, though it also lets you search manually.     The existing notes provide a little background on each malt or blend, but you can throw your own ratings and opinions into the mix too. As with the…

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