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Google Fast Flip – News Visualization

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I’m sure the newspapers are hating Google Labs’ new Fast Flip user interface but at least they are sharing revenue .  I like visualizations.  The current user interface of search portals and websites in general are certainly in their nascent iterations.  For Fast Flip, Google went for the grid user interface hey… it really works for tastespotting.

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It remains to be seen if it works for Google.  Here’s how Google explains the site:

“Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.”

Using Alexa and Wordle To Improve News Site Performance

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Is your newspaper doing what you think it’s doing?  Lets say you operate in New Jersey and run NJ.com.  That site pans itself as “everything NJ”.  Does this hold up looking at the data?

ALEXA:
I did the breakdown for you below.  Click the field you want to change for your publication.  We’re using my home state of NJ so we’re using the following:

Top > News > Newspapers > Regional > United States > New Jersey

We find out that there are 44 newspaper websites in this category and they are listed by popularity below.  I show the first 5 as an example.  Clicking the title goes to the Alexa data, clicking the url goes to the site. Continue reading →