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This morning I read an article which accuses Swedish web sites of being outdated since they’re not using “new” technologies such as Ajax. However, Ajax is not exactly new, since the technology has been around since 1998.
Google Analytics and cookies
A few days after the launch of Google Analytics, the web is buzzing all over about it. Due to an unexpected amount of users the service was temporarily crippled, but now it seems to be up and running.
Accessibility issues with Ajax
The word Ajax has been buzzing everywhere for the last couple of months. Ajax is a term coined by Jesse James Garrett at San Francisco-based company Adaptive Path in February 2005.
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.