Thoughts on the beta of the BBC’s site redesign

The BBC have published a beta release of their newly redesigned homepage.

The new design has clearly been influenced by personal start pages like NetVibes, iGoogle and PageFlakes. You can select from a pre-defined list of BBC widgets to include on your homepage - the stuff you’d expect: News, Sport, Weather etc. Read more…

Tom wrote this on 16.12.07 – 5 comments
It's filed in the Design, Strategy, Widgets box

Widgety Goodness digested

We attended, networked, listened and learnt… Brighton hosted the first ever European Widget Conference yesterday and what a show it was. We walked, talked and generally digested these new fangled things called Widgets and afterwards no one could be in any doubt about what they are, what they do and what they mean to us in this brave new online world. Read more…

Ruth wrote this on 07.12.07 – 3 comments
It's filed in the Events & conferences, Interesting, Widgets box