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Interview with UX Book Publisher Rosenfeld Media

Last week, UX Matters interviewed Lou Rosenfeld, founder, and Liz Danico, Sr. Development Editor of Rosenfeld Media. The interview covers how the small publishing house hopes to confront the publishing industry, and reflects on the experience of bringing user experience design to publishing books–including show-and-tell sessions, testing readers with print “prototypes” of books, and optimizing digital versions.

Sharing MySpace Content across the Web

MySpace announced that it will begin allowing users to share content from their profiles across Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and Photobucket. An article from the BBC quotes MySpace COO saying, “This is an unprecedented move to further socialize the web and empower users to control their online content and data.” This “data availability” project encourages users to host their content on MySpace by giving them the ability to update information across multiple sites at one time, making the information they post to the web ever more dynamic. Or, as CEO Chris DeWolfe puts it, in grand perspective, “This is a pioneering new way for the global online community to integrate their social experiences web-wide.”

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 8:50 pm and is filed under All User Experience Design, Current Events.