In the series of completely useless, therefore expensive and completely indispensable , the new User Friendly Multimedia Internet today offers us Millionaires24 , a new e-mail provider for us, the rich. The concept is rather attractive: Do you belong to high society? Then take this chance to demonstrate your position in an unambiguous manner. The digital era has begun and free email...
A collection is a collection of RSS / RDF / Atom feeds followed by a particular person, also called an OPML list. This list can be made up of blogs, news sites, podcasts, cartoons… The users of Feedcollectors have the possibility to add their collection to the site as with any RSS aggregator, then to share...
I just completed Dan Cederholm’s Bulletproof Web Design : Improving Flexibility and Anticipating the Worst with XHTML and CSS, published by New Riders. I haven’t bought computer books for a while, except in the case of methodological books that allow me to apply technical knowledge in concrete projects. Dan Cederholm’s goal is to show how to achieve stylish web...
Interesting Techcrunch article wondering when Yahoo! will decide to buy Technorati . As a reminder, Technorati is a social search engine that marked 2005 by popularizing the tag system, these keywords associated with a specific post. If the search by tags is more precise than the search by simple content which greatly increases the signal / noise ratio, it finds...
Interesting article at dr Daveon the upsurge in the phenomenon of spam on blogs through changes to its Spam Karma plugin. It is interesting to see how comment spam – whether on blogs or forums – differs from junk mail, or “junk mail” both in terms of purpose and effectiveness. Spam aims to reach an almost unlimited...
Also via Suw Charman , Shaun Inman from Mint explains the ten good reasons to create an API for our applications: An API makes it possible to highlight a brand. An API gives people more power by allowing them to do a few things with your data. People like to talk about what gives them power. If someone uses your API in...
In the series of 10 tips for … I offer you the ten key points to make your website work today and multiply your traffic by 10. A short domain name, in .com or .us if the full name allows you to play on words. A design using heavily rounded corners and fruity colors (blue,...
This year 2006 will have been rich in twists and turns and (not really) big surprises. It seems that the machine is restarted, and the year 2007 promises to be even more intense. Here are my predictions for 2007 (.0): The appearance of a decentralized virtual universe. If Second Life strongly resembles the realization of a dream...
I know I don’t write much lately. I’m having a little trouble finding the inspiration to complete the 20 or so in-depth articles stored in my “drafts” directory, some being written since March. And I code, a lot, actually. I just got my first big patch accepted by the Typo development team, and submitted a second – nearly...
As a Mac OS X user, my biggest concern when I have to test the compatibility of a stylesheet between different browsers comes from the difficulty of finding a Windows platform, in addition to the last two versions. Microsoft Internet Explorer (5.5 and 6), and the very latest version of Windows Explorer (therefore 7). However,...
