June 30, 2009 by
Michael Lascarides
Filed in Conferences, Mobile
I just returned from the 2009 m-Libraries conference at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (which–let’s get this out of the way up front– was an exceptionally beautiful and well-organized venue). The topic of the conference, the second annual, was the influence of the rapid expansion of mobile technology on libraries.
While those of us [...]
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January 23, 2009 by
Michael Lascarides
Filed in Mobile, Prototyping, Usability, interfaces
Today we’re rolling out a beta release of NYPL Mobile (http://m.nypl.org/), a miniaturized version of our site for iPhones and other mobile devices. We have noticed a small but growing number of mobile visitors to our web sites, and this new site is an effort to launch a platform on which we can experiment with [...]
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December 3, 2008 by
Michael Lascarides
Filed in Mobile, Stat of the Week, Usability
Say what you will about Google, but the quality of their products is invariably outstanding. We have adopted their (astonishingly) free web statistics package Google Analytics as our primary analysis tool, and the recent arrival of its new features have been huge helps in gaining new insights. Most notably, the Advanced Segments tool is allowing [...]
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