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Welcome to our new Homepage!

July 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Welcome to the new JamBase Homepage!

Over the past year, we have been refining our mission and taking a fresh look at how to fulfill it. We’ve been studying
how you actually use JamBase, doing usability testing and trying new designs all in pursuit of being the most
comprehensive, personalized and trusted source for live music recommendations, anywhere.

On the basis of that research, we are pleased to roll out a new home page design that’s fully focused on the features
you use most: finding concerts, reading news, and connecting with other like minded music fans.

A few things you’ll notice about the new design are:

- Show Finder and Show Results have been expanded at the top of the homepage and are localized if you’re in the
US.

- Featured Articles are now located in a larger box below, with bigger associated photos.

- Show Reviews are now located in the Community section of
the site. This is part of an ongoing effort to make it easier to tune in to the voices you like best among the JamBase
community and be a part of the dialogue. We encourage you to write your own show reviews and keep them in your
JamBase Journal, and participate in the
Show Reviews forum. We’ll feature
the reviews we like best on the Community home page and will have some larger Festival & Show reviews on the
homepage.

- Behind the scenes, JamBase is faster and more robust than ever before. Our engineers have been hard at work to
make sure that your JamBase experience is rock-solid.

- Our whole site is now centered!

The new JamBase homepage is only the beginning, as we’ve got big plans in the works to improve the site (and photo
viewer!) to make your live music discovery experience so much better. It’s groundbreaking stuff, and we’re very
excited about it.

As always, we appreciate your feedback–after all, we designed the home page around it! We hope you like it, and we
encourage you to let us know what you
think of it.

Continuously evolving to the next level,

-The JamBase Team
Go See Live Music!

Microsoft Launches MSN Mobile Homepage Design

May 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft launched a redesigned MSN Mobile homepage on May 13, streamlining the portals design and providing such as one-click access to Bing, Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. The mobile homepage is accessible on a variety of devices and browsers, including Safari on iPhone and Android. The announcement comes two months after Microsoft began rolling out its redesigned MSN homepage, which likewise emphasized streamlined design and deep integration with services such as Bing. – <p>Microsoft launched the redesign of its MSN Mobile homepage
on May 13, marking the next step in the companys attempts to revamp its MSN
brand to meet competition from Yahoo, AOL and other Web-content portals. </p>
<p>Â“The first thing you may notice is that the new MSN Mobile
homepage shares th…

Twitter Refreshes Homepage to Better Reflect Its Real-Time Nature

March 31st, 2010 | No Comments

Twitter March 30 began surfacing tweets on its homepage in real time, a redesign of its front door that better reflects the streamlike nature of the site. Users will now see a live ticker on top, a suggested users on the left and a live tweet stream in the middle. This hits to the core of the real-time data flow that keeps millions of Twitter users regularly tweeting. It’s also a potential gold mine for marketers and retailers looking to sell products.
– Twitter March 30 began surfacing tweets on its homepage in real time, a
redesign of its front door that better reflects the frenetic pace of
information sharing on the microblogging site.
When prospective users or existing users who are signed out visit Twitter.com, they will see a live ticker…

Microsoft’s MSN Homepage, Bing Gains, Flash Support Highlighted Week

March 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft had a Web- and mobile-centric week, centered on developments with its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series and a redesigned MSN homepage, as well as another report of incremental market-share gains for its Bing search engine. The news also highlighted that interlinked nature of Microsoft’s competitors in the online space, including Google, Yahoo and Apple.
– Microsofts news this week primarily existed in the online
and mobile arenas fitting, considering the companys increased focus on those
spaces as it attempts to develop viable businesses apart from its flagship
desktop software applications.
On March 9, Microsoft
rolled out its redesigned MSN ho…

Microsoft MSN Homepage Redesigned for Easy Facebook, Twitter Access

March 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft launched the revamped MSN homepage on March 9, with plans to make this new version available to 100 percent of users within the coming weeks. In addition to a newly streamlined design, the homepage also allows quick access to social-networking services such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as Hotmail and lists of the most popular topics on MSN and Twitter. Part of Microsofts revamp also seeks to place heavier emphasis on local news. To that end, the new MSN homepage includes Tweets from users around your location and postings from local blogs. Users can create an MSN Local Edition, following up to three cities. In all, Microsoft claims it made 30 updates to the page, utilizing 70,000 pieces of customer feedback.
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Microsoft MSN Homepage Redesign Focuses on Twitter, Facebook

March 10th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft began rolling out its redesigned MSN homepage on March 9, five months after first previewing the newly streamlined Website. Among new features, Microsoft has integrated social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook into the homepage, as well as MSN Local Edition, which tailors news and information to the users geographical location. Microsoft executives have previously noted that the redesign is intended to appeal not only to consumers, but also to advertisers, as Microsoft and Yahoo engage in a three-way battle with Google for users and advertising dollars.
– Microsoft began rolling out its redesigned MSN
homepage on March 9, emphasizing the Websites stripped-down design and
integration with social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook.
The redesign, first previewed in November, includes 50 percent fewer links
and an emphasis on white spa…

Facebook Homepage Redesign Puts Search Front and Center

February 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Facebook turned 6 years old Feb. 4. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proudly told the world that the leading social network now has more than 400 million users. To celebrate the birthday, Facebook also began rolling out changes to the homepage. Though currently visible to only 80 million of the site’s users worldwide, the changes are significant signs that the company is looking to improve the site’s search and overall usability. See some of the changes, which will be rolling out to all users over the coming weeks, in this eWEEK slideshow.
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Facebook Celebrates Six Years with New Search, Homepage

February 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Facebook, which turned six Feb. 4 and has more than 400 million users, improved its search engine and made several navigational changes to its homepage. The search bar, currently to the right for the majority of the site’s users, is being moved to the center of the page, sitting above the News Feed in the top menu. Users will see their newest notifications, requests and messages in the top menu. The changes, designed to improve the social network’s usability, will roll out gradually to all users and could spark an outcry from people who have gotten comfortable since the company’s last major homepage change in October 2009.
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Facebook Feb. 4 celebrated its sixth birthday in style, revamping its search engine and making several navigational
changes to its valuable homepage.
The changes, designed to improve the social network’s
usability, will roll out gradually to all users and could spark an outcry from…

Google Hawks Nexus One, Chrome on Its Homepage

January 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Google is running not only an ad and link for users to install the company’s Chrome Web browser, but an ad for the Google Nexus One smartphone. These ads comes four year after Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google, said there will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or Web search results pages. That Google is leveraging the premier piece of Web real estate — its popular Google homepage — to hawk its products isn’t sitting well with critics of the company.
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Ads for Google products are coming fast and furious on
Google’s homepage, the place a Google search executive famously declared would
be forever ad free.
People have
noticed that Google is running not only an ad and link for users to install the
company’s Chrome Web browser, but a…

Microsoft MSN Homepage Revised for Bing, Social Networking

November 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft rolls out a revamped MSN homepage incorporating social networking features such as Facebook and Twitter feeds, and putting its Bing search engine at the interface’s front and center. Microsoft’s revamp follows Yahoo’s own homepage revision in September, as both companies seek to compete more heartily against Google in the search and advertising space.
– Microsoft
revealed a heavily revised MSN homepage on
Nov. 4, calling the newly stripped-down and personalized site quot;the most
significant homepage redesign in over a decade. quot; Microsoft is following
other online titans, such as Yahoo, that have revamped their homepages in the
last few m…

Facebook Friends Say Homepage Changes Are Confusing, Annoying

October 26th, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook Oct. 23 created a toggle switch between its News Feed and Live Feed, trying to improve the user experience on the homepage. The changes sparked criticism over the weekend from several users, who vented in Facebook Groups such as I Automatically Hate The New Facebook Home Page group, as well as in the comments section of news stories. Over the weekend, several users wrote to complain that the changes were confusing or annoying. Others, however, accepted the changes. Facebook is welcoming feedback, but there seems to be no plans to change the service back at present. What do you think of the homepage changes?
– Facebook has something of a revolt on its hand after altering the homepage
to let users toggle back and forth between a regular News Feed and a Live Feed
Oct. 23.
The News Feed aims to provide info about what might be of interest to users,
while the Live Feed shows users what is happening now. …

Facebook Offers Real-Time, Highlight Reel News Feed for the Homepage

October 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Facebook Oct. 23 changed its homepage again, offering users a highlight reel view of the most interesting activity that’s happened in the last day and a real-time view that shows users what is happening now. This move takes on an interesting light in the wake of Microsoft’s announcement at Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 21 that Bing would begin serving up public Facebook status updates. Facebook also tweaked the Suggestions section to let users help their friends find their friends, or upload pictures and video. Facebook is also prodding users to help their friends become more active on the site, displaying a progress bar below their profile pictures on their profile.
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Facebook Oct. 23 delivered the previously reported home
page changes, offering users a highlight reel view of the most interesting activity
that’s happened in the last day and a real-time view that shows users what is
happening now.
Facebook began offering the real-time feed
in th…

Yahoo Opens Homepage to Developers, Launches YUI 3

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Yahoo has opened its new homepage to developers to build applications to be featured in the Yahoo homepage gallery; the company also has released a new version of the Yahoo User Interface, YUI 3.0.
– Yahoo has opened its new homepage to developers to build
applications to be featured in the Yahoo homepage gallery; the company
also has released a new version of the Yahoo User Interface, YUI 3.0.
In a Sept. 29 blog post about the homepage development, Xavier Legros, director of products for the…

Why Every News Site Should Put a Continuously Updated News Aggregation on the Homepage

September 17th, 2008 | No Comments

My post on Drudge beating all other news sites on engagement was an aha for many, which is interesting because the lesson of Drudge has been around for a decade. But the lessons of web publishing are all so utterly counterintuitive that I suppose they take a while to sink in.
That said, a number of [...]