Archive for January, 2009
How to do a Local Site Search Using Google Ajax Search API
It has been awhile since I have put up a tutorial. Today I am going to give a quick overview of using the Google Ajax Search API to do a local site search (It is much easier than it looks). I hadn’t really played with the Google Search API until yesterday but it is pretty [...]
Palm Introduces New webOS Platform
I apologize to anyone not interested in the mobile phone market for the frequency of mobile related posts over the last few weeks. There has been a lot to talk about in the mobile phone market lately. The latest announcement comes from Palm a company many thought was had been phased out of the mobile [...]
Only You Can Stop Webspam
Google is again accepting feedback on what spam tactics we would like to see them crackdown on in 2009. This has been a regular occurrence over the last few years and some good ideas are bought up every year. Google has worked hard to curb web spam but there always seems to be a new [...]
J.P. Morgan Internet Investment Guide – Read It
I came across something today that many of you might find interesting. J.P. Morgan has released their 2009 Internet Investment Guide. This is a 340 page document filled with tons of interesting and useful information about the Internet and popular online companies. I just got my hands on it so I haven’t had a chance [...]
LinkTogether – A Community for Web Designers
First, I would like to welcome all my new subscribers. I have been getting an abnormally large amount of traffic the last few days and I have also seen a big increase in RSS subscriptions so if you’re new around here, welcome! Yesterday, I saw a press release from Network Solutions announcing a new web [...]
What Agencies Look For When Hiring Entry Level Designers
This post is inspired by a great article written by Chris Brogan titled be the President of your Career. My post goes in a slightly different direction. Whenever Shawn and I talk with students, the question of what we look for when hiring designers seems to come up. I thought I would give a brief [...]
VixML a iPhone Development Platform for the Regular Guy
Not everyone is an expert at Objective C. This has caused a serious barrier to enter the iPhone development market for most designers and even some programmers. There are great ways to develop iPhone friendly websites that can be bundled as apps (Read about PhoneGap for more information) but now VixML has released a platform [...]
Yahoo Graded Browser Support – Which Browsers Your Website to Support
One of the most frustrating things for a web developer is creating cross-browser compliant websites. According to Yahoo there are over 10,000 browser brands, versions, and configurations and that number is growing. With this many combinations it is virtually impossible to support all variations. At the same time it is important for a website to [...]
Power.com Has Been Sued and I Saw it Coming
When I first heard about the business model behind power.com I couldn’t believe that social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace would allow it to operate. What Power.com does is it aggregates content from various social networking websites like Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, etc so that users of these websites can get all of their [...]
Google iPhone App Easter Egg
The Google iPhone App apparently has an Easter Egg. I didn’t realize it even though I have had this App since I got my hands on the 3G. I am not alone, it seems nobody realized it and so Google finally decided to blog about it so people actually knew it existed. iPhone users with [...]