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Design

Dear Netflix: please make your UI easier to use

Netflix is now available in 41 countries and its subscriber base grew by approximately one-third from third quarter 2012 to third quarter 2013. It has demonstrated creative chops with House of Cards (first Emmy for an online-only TV show) and Orange is the New Black (highly acclaimed). But to add new customers — and retain its […]

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Web/Tech

Google Continues To Privilege Its Own Content; Latest Victim, Vimeo?

On Wednesday, Alireza Yavari, who works at +Interactive New York, observed that he could no longer embed Vimeo videos on Google+. On G+, I had always been annoyed by the low quality of image previews when videos were shared from vimeo.com, my favorite video website. Now you cannot even embed any videos from Vimeo anymore! I noticed it […]

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Convergence Web/Tech

Examples of Best-of-the-Breed Multimedia Storytelling

The jurors were from news organization’s prized audience demographic: 18-35s. Students in my COM466 Digital Journalism class picked these stories as “best practices” examples in multimedia storytelling.