Twitter's 2011 redesign: The hits and misses

Tech Sanity Check TechRepublic Member | December 15, 2011

Editor's note In addition to my take on the #NewNewTwitter (I didn't come up with that), read the latest news about Bill Gates not returning to lead Microsoft, Google's post-PageRank future, and Adobe and RIM give quarterly reports. -Jason Twitter's 2011 redesign: The hits and misses Twitter has done a comprehensive overhaul of its user experience across Twitter.com and its apps. See what they got right and what's still wrong. Read more Resource of the day Information In, Information Out, Information All About Information is consumed and created at every level of your business, and all of it needs to be stored. Read this white paper to learn more about establishing a data infrastructure for your information and the best ways to put it to use. 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