Thursday, July 29, 2004
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
T-Mobile International and Macromedia Announce Strategic Partnership and Licensing Agreement for Flash Lite
A confluence of Wireless, Web and Software technologies. Such an interesting monster.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:11 AM
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Friday, July 23, 2004
mozillaZine - Your Source for Daily Mozilla News and Advocacy
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:31 AM
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Thursday, July 22, 2004
CRM Daily: NewsFactor Network - - Macromedia Launches Web Publishing System
Posted by Kelly Abbott
10:19 AM
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Monday, July 19, 2004
E-mail, instant messages increasingly sought in lawsuits (registration required)
Shows the need to enforce good Internet policies within the enterprise.
Posted by Reid
6:26 PM
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In regard to Microsoft paying Lindows $20 million to stop using the Lindows name, I was thinking of a new revenue model for today's litigious, brand-sensitive business environment: How does Red Dooracle sound?
Posted by Reid
3:09 PM
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java.net: Beyond MVC: A New Look at the Servlet Infrastructure [Dec. 11, 2003]
Posted by Kelly Abbott
2:46 PM
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XML-'Reloaded' PHP5 Released
"PHP 5.0 includes numerous enhancements that further extend the functionality of the language. For example, XML (define) support has been 'completely redone' with extensions now focused around the libxml2 library.
SimpleXML, a new XML extension enhancement, enables easier access and manipulation of XML components as PHP objects. Where there's XML, Web services (define) are usually found too. In that regard, PHP 5 includes a built-in SOAP extension that permits Web Services interoperability. "
Posted by Kelly Abbott
2:44 PM
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Martha Stewart includes Web in PR campaign
Martha Stewart said she has received 175,000 "supportive" e-mails of her effort to stay out of jail. On the Web site, she has posted a letter and a "personal video statement" addressed, "Dear Friends." The site, marthatalks.com, also includes links to copies of some of the messages and a statement by one her lawyers outlining the argument for a reversal of her verdict. Another pro-Stewart Web site, SaveMartha.com, has a video featuring scenes of Stewart cooking and gardening with the soundtrack playing the disco song "I Will Survive." The site also sells "Pardon Martha" t-shirts and encourages subscriptions to her magazine, published by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.
Posted by Reid
11:51 AM
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VoIP: The Next Household Word?
More companies and consumers, especially in urban areas, are tapping into VoIP. That's shorthand for "voice over Internet Protocol," which is nothing more than industry lingo for a simple but extraordinary concept: using the Internet to make telephone calls.
Posted by Julie Rosefsky
9:48 AM
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Thursday, July 15, 2004
Google Toolbar Can Browse By Name
Neil J. Rubenking - PC Magazine
Google has quietly introduced a new feature to its popular browser toolbar that lead you to never type in a full URL again. The Google Toolbar's new Browse by Name feature, introduced on July 14, takes the concept of searching from the browser Address Bar and kicks it up a notch. All you do is type the name or description of the site you're looking for. If there's a strong match, Google will go straight to that page. For example, "new york times", "ben and jerry", "john kerry" and "strong bad" all zoom directly to the appropriate page. When there's no single obvious match, you haven't lost anything –- you still get a standard Google search results page. Browse by Name is especially useful when the URL you're searching for is non-obvious.
Posted by Julie Rosefsky
10:45 AM
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Wednesday, July 14, 2004
Making Knowledge Management Work on your Intranet
by Shiv Singh
"In the information economy, the longevity of an organization is based as much on the sophistication of its knowledge management practices as it is on traditional differentiators such as the strength of its products, the talent of its employees, and its marketplace reputation and partner relationships."
Posted by Charles
5:47 PM
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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Six Design Lessons From the Apple Store
by Jesse James Garrett
"There’s a lot about the Apple Store experience that we can apply to the design of many other kinds of products — and a few lessons we can take from Apple’s missteps as well."
Posted by Charles
10:43 AM
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Monday, July 12, 2004
Yahoo! News - Senate Bill Targets 'Phishers'
Internet scam artists who use fake Web sites to dupe people into revealing sensitive financial information could face up to five years in jail and forced to pay $250,000 in fines under a bill introduced late last week in the Senate.
Posted by Reid
3:36 PM
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Saturday, July 10, 2004
An Excerpt from Brand Leadership
By David Aaker and Erich Joachimsthale
As dot-coms and Web versions of conventional businesses continue to proliferate, building strong brand leadership is more critical for business success than ever before. In his new book, Brand Leadership, David Aaker, professor emeritus of marketing, and co-author Erich Joachimsthaler have created a guide to building and maintaining brand leadership.
Posted by Charles
1:07 PM
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Friday, July 09, 2004
What's a wiki? Its an easy way to collaborate on documents online, for free.
Here are two great examples of large bodies of knowledge accumulated by using wiki:
wikipedia.org – the wiki encyclopedia
docs.indymedia.org – the documentation library for the global indymedia network
here’s a howto for editing wiki pages:
wikipedia.org - How_to_edit_a_page
docs.indymedia.org - WelcomeGuest
here’s a sandbox where you can experiment with editing yourself:
wikipedia.org - Sandbox
docs.indymedia.org - Sandbox
here’s a longer tutorial:
wikipedia.org - Tutorial
docs.indymedia.org - TWikiTutorial
yay. I really dig wiki. It’s very useful, and its built on standards like html, so its very easy to incorporate into other systems. Everything can be linked to with a url.
Here are the list of plugins available for TWiki:
twiki.org - Plugins
Posted by michael
2:57 PM
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Thursday, July 08, 2004
Ranchero Software: NetNewsWire: "NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS Web news reader for Mac OS X. "
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:17 AM
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Radio UserLand: History of the Radio UserLand News Aggregator
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:17 AM
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Wednesday, July 07, 2004
InfoWorld: Rounding up Web services intermediaries: July 02, 2004: By Phillip J. Windley : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : WEB_SERVICES: "WSIs (Web services intermediaries) are a unique class of middleware for managing and monitoring Web services. Useful for everything but the smallest of Web services applications, WSIs provide important features such as message routing, security, exception handling, abstraction, message transformation, and logging. "
Posted by Kelly Abbott
11:29 AM
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Rearrange Page Code to Raise Text Relevance
by Michael Meadhra,
"The placement of text content within a Web page can make a significant difference in some situations. The most notable example is in search engine rankings. Some search engines examine only a limited number of characters (i.e., 10,000 characters or 25 KB) on each page and ignore the rest of the text on any page that exceeds the standard length. Search engines that index the entire contents of a long page often give more weight to content that appears closer to the top of the page when calculating page rankings and relevance to a particular search term."
Posted by Charles
10:24 AM
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MSN Search Gets New Look; Microsoft Gets New Search Engine
Microsoft finally released a public preview of its long-awaited Web search technology, over a year after first embarking on the project. The company also gave its popular MSN Search site a facelift. Still powered by Yahoo's search technology, it's dropped paid-inclusion listings.
Posted by Julie Rosefsky
10:04 AM
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California privacy law kicks in
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Web companies doing business with Californians are beholden to a new state law protecting consumer privacy, and industry executives believe many sites have yet to comply.
Posted by Julie Rosefsky
9:46 AM
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TeaLeaf : "TeaLeaf RealiTea is a Web application management solution that enables you to have real-time awareness of critical failures and alarming trends that are impacting the success or failure of your most critical online business processes."
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:03 AM
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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
We're looking into ways we can enrich user's experience of desktop applications. We're also looking into ways that desktop applications can be made better by being internet-ready. We're also looking at desktop applications and wondering why they exist at all.
We think that Macromedia's 'Flex'is a great bridge solution to a problem we're seeing more and more these days. We've had more than one client ask us how they can build applications which are integrated with their websites. Macromedia thinks you should build "Rich Internet Applications." We don't entirely disagree.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
6:27 PM
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Friday, July 02, 2004
Here at Red Door Interactive we've been working hard lately to learn about new internet technologies like Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS isn't exactly bleeding edge technology, but it's a replacement for older technologies like simlpe html tables. By using CSS, we will be able to develop our websites faster, offer more features in those sites, and create more portable sites that can be viewed well on a desktop, a handheld or a printer. You can read more about what CSS is and how it changes web design here. As a developer, I see CSS as a win-win situation: we make sites which are easier to maintain, because the display is separated from the content, and the client has to spend less to get those sites.
At least that's the promise of CSS. Now that we've begun to standardize on CSS and use it more, we've encountered some of its quirks. For example, not all browsers display CSS the same way. Microsoft Internet Explorer is one browser which doesn't follow the CSS specification exactly as its written. Without some acrobatics, CSS sites look different when viewed in Internet Explorer.
So, we figure that today's announcement from the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), one of the most widely respected sources of information about comuter security, is good news for us. CERT recently published a notice about a security flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer, in which they suggested that users "use a different web browser". Soon after that, the folks at mozilla.org saw the number of downloads double for their standards compliant, Free Software web browser, Firefox.
We see that as a good thing here, since it means that more people will be using a browser that complies with web standards, and hopefully that will mean that we can actually rely on those standards when developing websites, without having to figure out the quirks that each software vendor has decided to throw into the mix.
Posted by michael
2:58 PM
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Thursday, July 01, 2004