Posts in category ”Web industry”
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Web 2.0 and social overload
If Ajax was the most abused buzzword of 2005, then Web 2.0 has confidently staggered in to claim the title for 2006. Suddenly everybody has a Web 2.0 company.
Blogosphere five years after 9/11
Five years ago, the world changed. So did the web. On September 11 2001, millions of people did what we had already learned to do whenever something terrible happened: we went online looking for answers.
Previewing Photosynth at Siggraph in Boston
Today at Siggraph conference in Boston, Microsoft Live Labs offered a sneak preview of Photosynth, one of those technologies that makes you stare at the screen for a while and wonder whether you’re looking at the future or the opening scene of a particularly nerdy dystopian film.
SXSW wrapping up in Austin
The circus is packing up in Austin. After several days of panels, presentations, hallway evangelism and presumably heroic quantities of unhealthy snacks, SXSW conference is drawing to a close. The crowds are abandoning the Texas sun, armed with business cards, new ideas and perhaps a slightly diminished respect for their own livers.
Ajax for the masses
This morning I came across an article accusing Swedish websites of being hopelessly outdated because they aren’t using exciting “new” technologies like Ajax. Nothing says modernity quite like declaring everything built six months ago obsolete.
Google Analytics and cookies
A few days after the launch of Google Analytics, the web is already buzzing about Google’s shiny new toy. So many people rushed through the door that the service promptly buckled under the weight. Nothing says successful launch quite like making the product temporarily unusable.
Accessibility issues with Ajax
The word Ajax has been buzzing around the web industry for the last couple of months like somebody suddenly discovered fire. The term was coined by Jesse James Garrett at Adaptive Path in February 2005 and is usually explained as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
The web of tomorrow
The web is arguably the fastest growing invention of all time, connecting people in a way once thought to be science-fiction or even magic. The last decade has seen the web transform from a technical curiosity to a vital channel for information.
Google Suggest
The new Google Suggest function provides autocomplete for web searches. Start typing and, before you’ve quite decided what you’re looking for, Google politely offers a list of possibilities.