June 3rd, 2008 |
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AJAX, Javascript, Web Development
“A new release of jQuery is out — 1.2.6, skipping directly from 1.2.3. Most noteworthy are the performance improvements.” via Ajaxian. Further details in the release notes.
June 3rd, 2008 |
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A comprehensive set of stencils. Great stuff.
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Using css transformations to flip web page
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Good breakdown of the differences
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For those ready to sell as soon as they can get the upcoming 3G version
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WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish. SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter.
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A continuously updated list of all CSS properties:
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SkyBlueCanvas is designed specifically for those instances when more robust systems like Joomla, WordPress and Drupal are too much horsepower.
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Hook campaignmonitor up to google analytics
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search and buy amazon products via sms
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iPhone demographics
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Story behind one of my favorite Thomas Hawk’s photos
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GridFox is a Firefox extension that overlays a grid on any website
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WebKit now supports gradients specified in CSS. There are two types of gradients: linear gradients and radial gradients.
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June 2nd, 2008 |
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Mobile | 1 Comment
“Cell phones will now tell Italians when the tide is high in Venice. The city government just launched a free text message alert system for the floods which frequently put La Serenissima under several feet of water.” Originally from Zoomata and highlighted by Textually.
I wonder how long it will take before the U.S. starts to realize that SMS-based alerts would be much more effective than radio and television alerts. There’s a whole generation that the public broadcasting alert system would miss who are listening to their iPods and watching IPTV instead of the networks.
May 31st, 2008 |
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A JupiterResearch survey found that 33% of broadband shoppers are unwilling to wait more than four seconds for a web page to load, whereas 43% of narrowband users will not wait more than six seconds (Akamai 2006).
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mobile barcode scanning solving fixed lens issues
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From a while back. Caused a lot of controversy at the time. Argues on device apps are going to be replaced by mobile web apps.
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mobile advertising service including sms
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Location-based SMS text messages service. Being used by realtors
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The Betavine API lets you interact with mobile & web services. It allows you to send text messages, push web links to mobiles and access Betavine content. API calls are available in a variety of formats including XML, JSON and RSS.
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Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.
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long tail search analytics for seo efforts
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Great software for creating timelines
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The result is CiUI (CNET iPhone UI) that mimics iPhone UI behavior. It’s already being used on CNET’s iPhone page (http://iphone.cnet.com). It’s been greatly inspired by iUI with a few key differences:
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A sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.
May 30th, 2008 |
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Mobile
May 30th, 2008 |
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Site Performance, Web Development
Andrew King has a new post up highlighting recent research on how long people will wait for a page to load. Previously, the magic number was 10 seconds, but broadband has decreased our patience for slow sites.
A JupiterResearch survey found that 33% of broadband shoppers are unwilling to wait more than four seconds for a web page to load, whereas 43% of narrowband users will not wait more than six seconds (Akamai 2006).
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Google found that moving from a 10-result page loading in 0.4 seconds to a 30-result page loading in 0.9 seconds decreased traffic and ad revenues by 20% (Linden 2006).
Plus a very real impact on sales:
Tests at Amazon revealed similar results: every 100 ms increase in load time of Amazon.com decreased sales by 1% (Kohavi and Longbotham 2007).
May 30th, 2008 |
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“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. “
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Mobile web = weekend web
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This is a great service for finding photographs. Much better than Flickr’s own search tool.
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Twitter Statistics with Yahoo Pipes and the Google Chart API
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Marshall explains his consulting business
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Pinch Analytics — a hosted solution that brings the richness of web analytics to iPhone SDK applications.
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Great list of yahoo pipes
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Good discussion of why the using the html input type password is a usability problem for mobile
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How to erase the phone in a way that makes it much more difficult to recover data.
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Technique for using Amazon S3 as a content delivery network.
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“Safari/WebKit is the most interesting of all as it appears to have no perceivable limit through Safari 3.1. I tested setting up to 10,000 cookies and all of them were set and sent along in the Cookie header. ” Crazy
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basics of getting an app up and running on Google App Engine
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Longer term statistics show that since 1995 the size of the average web page has increased by 22 times, and the number of objects per page has grown by 21.7 times.
May 29th, 2008 |
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Emerging Technology, Inspiration
Sometimes you can’t find the words to describe what you’re seeing. Watch this video about Dean Kamen’s latest invention.
May 29th, 2008 |
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Business, Marketing, Mobile, Search Engines, Web Development
Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat down with the Frantfurter Allgemeine (FAZ.net) to discuss things mobile and social networks among other things.
On mobile:
Just take the success of the iPhone: It has the first really powerful web browser on a mobile device - and many more are still coming. Nokia has one coming, Blackberry has one and Motorola has one. They are all supposed to be released this year. By these products, the advertising gets more targeted because phones are personal. So targeted ads are possible. And that means the value of the ads will grow. The next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet.
On social networks:
MySpace did not monetize as well as we thought. We have a lot of traffic, a lot of page views, but it is harder than we thought to get our ad network to work with social networks. When you are in social network, it is not likely that you´ll buy a washing machine.
Some good stuff in there. I recommend the full article.
May 29th, 2008 |
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Web Development
Via Ajaxian today: A new, free tool that lets you test IE8, 7, 6, and 5.5 in the same application. It is called IETester and is from the gentleman who created the DegugBar for IE. Download it here.