NowPublic Labs
NowPublic Launches New Labs Site.
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The Archives:
We’ve completely rebuilt every single page on NowPublic for your enhanced viewing pleasure. Yes, a site re-design that preserves all the site’s current functionality but makes the content more readable, the news more relevant and the tools more usable.
Here’s a list of the highlights:
More mojo: We take news seriously but we also know that sometimes the best told stories are the ones that require unorthodox thinking. We say bring it. For a long time we’ve taken the lead from more conservative news designs. As you will see, this is no longer the case. The days of bobblehead news delivery are done and the new frontier has you as the lead player. NowPublic’s new tone respects the irreverence and personality of you — our member. While we don’t get too many UFO stories on the site and T Rex sightings are rare, we expect that if the Martians do ever come you’ll see it on NowPublic first. Keep your eyes open!
Member rankings: Some of you may have noticed that you’ve accumulated a number of NowPublic points. What do these mean and how do you get more? Well, the answer to both of those questions is the same: be a good member. And what does that mean? In general terms we want you to do things that helps us grow our global news community. NowPublic points give props to people who are contributing to the dialogue and helping us tell the stories that matter. If you’ve got lots of fans or if you’ve spent time helping other site members we want to recognize that. All these good things earn you points over time and help you ascend the ranks. We tell you who is in the running on a daily, weekly, monthly and all-time basis.
Your presence stream: We think it’s great that lots of our members are plugged into sites like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and others. If you’re posting news to your accounts in these communities then set up your NowPublic presence stream so that it streams your content to our users. Keep on using the tools you like but extend your reach into the news world.
Your news dashboard: I admit that sometimes I find the cricket scores less than gripping. Although I totally get that half the world’s population is nuts about cricket I just haven’t been able to get there yet (perhaps some day). In the meantime I’ll just keep tuning my news consuming habits to the often obscure interests I have. The new news dashboard is a brilliant way to track what interests you on NowPublic. Get photo, video or text feeds of the stuff you want from the places and people you want to hear from. Don’t tell our design team but this page is actually becoming my de facto NowPublic home page. Shhhhh.
You can set your own dashboard up by logging into your account, clicking your username at the top of the screen and then clicking on “Dashboard”.
So let us know what you think.
Have fun!
Michael.
