Frédéric Filloux has an interesting piece in this week’s Monday Note (which, if you’re not already reading, you should be). It’s on Microsoft’s work on Seadragon, which is a piece of tech that allows “infinite zooming”:
This is what Seadragon is about: it lets you dive in an image down to the smallest detail. All done [...]

When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad last month, there were immediate debates over what kind of impact it would have on both the news habits of consumers and the bottom lines of news organizations. But one thing seemed obvious: that the iPad would be a glorious playground for user-interface designers, information architects, and others who [...]

New York is furious about the mayor’s new Twitter habit, Chicago is snickering at an Oprah lawsuit, and Los Angeles continues to mourn the passing of director John Hughes.
These city-wide emotional check-ins are plucked from NBC’s recently launched local web network. The network’s 10 sites, all associated with NBC owned-and-operated broadcast stations, feature “mood” applications [...]

A new way of reading The New York Times online turns the traditional web-browsing experience on its side. The prototype, which they’re calling Article Skimmer until someone comes up with a better name, presents the latest news in a horizontal grid that looks and feels radically different from the vertically oriented nytimes.com homepage. Check out [...]