For a scary look into our future, spend 28 minutes watching (or at least listening to) this video from the DICE 2010 Summit. Are we really predestined to be tracked, every move we make, every step we take? And is … Continue reading
Google Page Speed: It’s Their World, We Just Live In It
I briefly mentioned Google Page Speed in a recent post, but I’m just now making the time to dig deeper into this Firefox add-on (truthfully, it is a Firebug add-on, so you’ll need that installed first). And, as one might … Continue reading
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I recently tripped across the Firefox Tips & Tricks page. There probably isn’t a lot here that most developers don’t already know, but being someone that is always on the look-out for new keyboard shortcuts, I found these, a couple … Continue reading
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Our man Jeremy Keith and his Mad Lib-style registration page for Huffduffer got some nice kudos from Luke W. In fact, Luke liked the Mad Lib approach so much, he convinced a client to try some A/B Testing on their … Continue reading
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With Unicode practically owning the web, A List Apart brings up a good question: What happens when you have a dynamic search (you know, ), and people search for words like “López” or “Lørgensen”? Well, Carlos Bueno has a really, … Continue reading
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A number of improvements come our way from the World of Google, including a clipboard and new save buttons for Google docs, user-feedback upgrades to Google buzz, and continued expansion on what Google Scripts can do. The jQuery world is … Continue reading
One of the Best Bands I Have Seen in a While
Last night had I the opportunity to see The Soundtrack Of Our Lives (TSOOL) at Irving Plaza. Holy. Crap. They are bad ass. If you ever have a chance to see them live, GO! And in that vein, here are … Continue reading
“Microformats: Finally Coming of Age?” Presentation
A presentation I recently gave about the bold new steps the world of Microformats has taken recently, most notably enhanced search results in Google! Widget courtesy of Google Web Elements Enjoy, Atg Top⇪
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Happy President’s Day everyone! Another random sampling of all things web… Google Maps just got out-Googled… Of all people, Microsoft, created an amazing “augmented-reality mapping technology“. A lame name, even by Microsoft standards, but a truly impressive technology. As the … Continue reading
Microsoft Pivot: See the Web as a Grid
Today I stumbled across something from some company called Microsoft called Pivot: (I couldn’t get the Silverlight that Microsoft provides to load properly, but I found this one on YouTube…) You can check-out other Pivot videos on YouTube too. It’s … Continue reading