Cameron Olthuis has a post on his blog regarding his top picks for Web 2.0 designs. It made digg.com and it’s a pretty legitimate post. Since I’ve worked in this industry I’ve seen a difference in traditional design compared to Web 2.0. For my Top 10 I can’t say it would be the same as his. There are so many different sites coming out everyday that some people are exposed to some and some people exposed to others. Read the rest of this entry »
Blogs and wikis have gotten people used to user generated content management systems according to an article on CNET News.com. Unlike old content management systems, the Web 2.0 style applications have made it easier for people to use. This will make a big impact on corporations adopting Web 2.0 into their businesses. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple Matters had an article about Google and is competitors and its forthcoming competitors. Google is the leading search engine by far, but that never means that another engine can’t come out and out perform the engine. As stated in the article, Google isn’t perfect and it will never be perfect. In fact, no service for that matter will ever be perfect. Read the rest of this entry »
More and more people are turning toward web applications and what this means naturally is more people vulnerable to cyber criminals. Large applications with many users have to be particularly careful with security in the web applications. I’m not saying every web application shouldn?t take careful consideration to security but those dealing with a lot of personal information have to be particularly careful. Yahoo News had an article on this particular subject. Read the rest of this entry »
There was a blog post on Blogger giving 10 tips for writing reusable code. For the most part I think that these tips can be applied to almost any coding language. If course some things might need to be varied. Read the rest of this entry »
The Undersigned.net had an article on why business blogs are important. Most businesses believe that blogs aren’t for business. It becomes to personal and many try to hide behind the corporate face. The article lists 10 reasons on why it is important to business blogs. I agree with a lot of them and do think its good for businesses to blog. I’ll review his reasons and give my opinion on each. Read the rest of this entry »
Builder.com has an article about JBoss’s recent project typing AJAX and Java together. Their open source framework is called Seam. Google has a similar AJAX toolkit for Java programmers as well. Read the rest of this entry »
PC World had an article last week about the number on finance websites. The most popular is Yahoo by far and MSN at a distant second. Google just recently launched its finance site and ranks 42nd on a list tabulated by Hitwise. Read the rest of this entry »
The New York Times had an article about AJAX web applications on the web to use in place of desktop applications. The article says computer hardware has reached a point where its very inexpensive to pick up a pretty good system. The software however ends up costing even more than the hardware. Google has bought Writely a web based word processor and also released a preview of its spreadsheet software. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, there was an article on Computerworld stating that Microsoft is still working on its Atlas framework for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). The Atlas framework is said to not displace the JavaScript technology with its own Microsoft technology. Read the rest of this entry »
