Entries Tagged as ‘Adding Value’

September 4, 2008

Adding Value

One of the news sites I use the most that I think adds a great deal of value to is the New York Times. In particular their current hurricane coverage, they had an interesting interactive map that also linked to video and photo galleries from a particular spot on the map.
Another added piece of [...]

September 4, 2008

Added value…to infinity and beyond.

The depth of the internet never ceases to amaze me. It’s so deep, someone could literally spend an entire lifetime browsing.
I’ve clocked in so many hours looking at the photographs on National Geographic’s webpage. No space constraints makes photo browsing a never ending art show. There’s no guard who locks the doors and kicks you [...]

September 3, 2008

Added Value

I was on NYTimes.com today and it is amazing the amount of news they cover and continue to make it more and more interactive, to truly engage their readers.
The first story that appears front and center is obviously the story concerning the Republican National Convention and the Vice Presidential choice of Sarah Palin. On this [...]

September 3, 2008

Added Value–Mike Stricoff

I typically look at sports news cites, and these outlets have found tons of ways to add value to their news stories.
Story 1
This is a story on espn.com about the former Seattle NBA basketball team that moved to Oklahoma City. They just announced their new franchise name, “OKC Thunder”, along [...]

September 3, 2008

Added Value: from Heather

One of the best added values that have been around for a while are podcasts. I have a friend who started burning podcasts of ‘This American Life’ onto CD’s while we were on a long road trip. He got us all hooked.

Here’s a link to this weeks episode.

A lot of you have already seen this, [...]

September 3, 2008

Adding Value: The Times and O Globo

To find out how my favorite websites add value to their pages, I first went to The New York Times. Although it is a traditional newspaper and the page appearance may not seem as dynamic or funky as many websites, the Times does a good job in adding different tools and medias to [...]

September 3, 2008

McKenna’s Added Value

Hey everyone, I decided to check out my three favorite websites (Yahoo, ESPN, and IMDB) and see what “added value” examples they have.
Yahoo offers many added values, and most of them are accesible right on the opening home page. An obvious value would be the search bar itself, and the image search on it [...]