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Ziff Davis Enterprise’s CIO Insight launches new weekly video series and mobile site

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ziffdavis.pngZiff Davis Enterprise’s CIO Insight launched a new weekly video series, the CIO Insight Weekly Report, and a new mobile video series, CIO Insight Weekly Minute. Located on the CIO Insight website, this weekly video series offers quick, informative 5 to 10 minute videos of current trends, IT news and perspectives, helping senior IT leaders to make better decisions.

The CIO Insight Weekly Report will include features and headlines from CIO Insight magazine and website, research reports from trusted editors such as Allan Alter, and commentary from CIO Insight Executive Editor, Eric Chabrow.

CIO Insight Weekly Minute, the new mobile-friendly video content, is a shorter version of the weekly report videos. Readers are able to stay informed on their handheld devices throughout the day by accessing this new mobile site.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 7:19 pm

Social shopping site Wikidealz.com launches in time for buying season

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wikidealz.pngWikidealz.com, a free community-based shopping website announced is launch in time for consumers to take advantage of its powerful user-driven model and get the best holiday deals.

The value of Wikidealz.com comes from social networking, where users share information about online shopping deals with groups of deal-savvy individuals and the internet shopping community at large. This user-generated wiki content, combined with the site’s easy search capabilities, ensures that shoppers have an efficient and high-quality shopping experience.

In addition to providing top-notch shopping, Wikidealz.com also benefits those who share deals with the user community. Wikidealz.com allows consumers who already spend considerable time researching the best online bargains to easily share them, and get paid to do so. Members earn cash when they post deals that lead to sales from participating Wikidealz.com retailers.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 7:15 pm

NASA launches expanded agency website

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nasa.pngAs the agency commemorates its 50th anniversary, NASA has launched “NASA.gov 5.0,” the first major redesign of its primary web site in more than four years. The new design goes beyond a cosmetic facelift. It features a new level of interactivity and customization, and provides the opportunity to comment on selected NASA stories, create personal playlists of favorite NASA videos and share agency content with social bookmarking sites on the Internet.

While adding new features, the site’s overall focus remains on providing the latest news, which is prominently displayed at the top of the page. Also, NASA imagery and videos have been given more prominence.

Visitors will notice a new navigation interface, with 10 topic areas covering the depth and breadth of NASA programs replacing three outdated and overly broad categories. Web editors from around the agency will be able to contribute content.

Web managers have improved the new site’s search capability using Google’s Customer Search Engine to provide visitors with the same search results they would get from Google’s public site. NASA has tools to apply “crowd wisdom” to search results by weighting findings according to how many previous searchers clicked on a particular link.

NASA revamped the customized “myNASA” feature to allow users to collect their favorite NASA Web content, including videos and news feeds, all in one location.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 12:24 pm

Lee Iacocca launches website to jumpstart citizen dialogue on key issues

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iacocca.pngLee Iacocca is not in the mood to mince words about the state of the US and world leadership and he’s launching a web site for others to join him in this discourse. Iacocca’s site is an online forum designed to encourage open dialogue around the challenges of our time as we enter the homestretch of the Presidential election season.

The site will enable visitors to weigh in on topics from the 2008 presidential election to what soaring health care costs are doing to America, to the reasons we lag so far behind in developing alternative energy sources and hybrid vehicles.

The web site also serves as an online extension to Mr. Iacocca’s 2007 book, Where Have All the Leaders Gone. The site features an interactive scorecard that allows users to rate presidential candidates by the qualities Mr. Iacocca feels every true leader should possess. Mr. Iacocca has dubbed these his Nine C’s: curiosity, creativity, communication, character, courage, conviction, charisma, competence and common sense.

Visitors to the website will be able to grade the candidates vying for the 2008 nomination on the Nine C’s and have the results tabulated in real time.

Another recurring feature of the site will be a blog authored by Mr. Iacocca. In his blog, he will address topics of interest to him including the race to find a cure for diabetes– a subject of very personal significance to him. In 1984 Mr. Iacocca established the Iacocca Foundation For Type 1 Diabetes in honor of his late wife, Mary K. Iacocca, who died from complications of Type 1 diabetes. Since its inception, The Foundation has funded more than $26 million in promising research projects over the past 23 years.

Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 12:46 pm

T: The New York Times Style Magazine launches web site with blog to feature news in style and luxury

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t.pngT: The New York Times Style Magazine launched NYTimes.com/TMagazine, an online publication that reinvents the magazine in a digital format and also provides a daily presence on the web for T readers. The site will feature “The Moment,” a blog posting up-to-the-minute fashion and style news and discoveries by T editors and prominent outside contributors. The highly anticipated luxury site brings the visually rich content of T magazine to a larger, global audience. The quality journalism of T’s articles and photography will be coupled with Flash-based interactive content and original videos. The debut of the site coincides with the December launch of T Magazine in the International Herald Tribune.

The T: Magazine Web site was engineered by the New York-based agency createthe group, which was recently featured in an article in W magazine and is the leading agency behind sites for some of the world’s foremost luxury brands.

Originally posted on November 30, 2007 @ 6:01 am