Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

 
So, facebook released the (public beta) of the “lite” version of their service, last week. Some think that facebook lite is just a response to twitter’s popularity and the trend of real-time web. Especially with facebook acquiring friendfeed and then releasing the code in a open source project called tornado. Still, there is more [...]

Wikipedia states that Progressive Enhancement principle:
uses web technologies in a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, using any browser or Internet connection, while also providing those with better bandwidth or more advanced browser software an enhanced version of the page

This is the best example I [...]

The “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” on Youtube, is the viral video of the moment (if you want to see it, scroll down to the end of the post). At the moment of the writing of this post, it has 1,613,403 views. When I first saw it, like an hour a ago, it had 1.4 million [...]

In the Wordpress world, Contact Form 7 is “the king of contact forms”. It has (as of today 9 of July 2009) 543,600 downloads, a average rating of four stars (of 279 ratings). Also it has been translated to over 30 languages and  2 years of being in the plugin directory. Those are impressive numbers [...]

On Sunday I saw that Kathy Sierra posted (in twitter) a recommendation to a talk from Webstock 09. It was by Ze Frank (first time I heard about the guy), which is a shame because he has done some interesting things (apparently a  lot).
I recommend you to take 52 minutes of your life and listen [...]

Although most are trying to figure out what exactly the Web  3.0 will be, I like to take a moment and show you what the business model of Web 2.0 was and what is happing today with web a.k.a Web 2.5.
The best way to explain what was the predominant business plan of the Web 2.0 [...]

Street Image from Hitta (Sweden) and Street View Google, are online services that gives you the ability (through a web browser) to see the streets of a city, as if you were there in a car or walking . Sometimes it feels like you are in the back side of a war vehicle, in first [...]

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world”, Mahatma Gandhi.
If you visit Mininova site, you will see some ads to the right, but other than that have a nice clean layout. The site has a Web 2.0 air, with soft colors that come easy to the eye. It will not get the same good [...]

The question I have been asking myself is “where are the software companies, whose cracked software can be found on the p2p networks?”. Software companies figure out long ago, that they can fight these phenomenon. Slowly, they had changed, now big companies offer basic free versions of their products, understanding that $$$ is “Business to [...]

Yes, the title may sound sensationalist however that is the strategy of the defense. The strategy apparently named as the “King Kong defense” consists on arguing that The Pirate Bay doesn’t initiate the transfer, the users do. The sites [TPB] administrators are unable to identify the users because they can register with any name i.e. [...]


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