Archive for category 'Internet'
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Word Content: Bloggers not publishing original content anymore?
Posted on December 24th, 2007 at 20:51 in Internet, Blogging, Thoughts.
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Just recently, I came across this website. It’s called Word Content, and its main purpose is to give you, for a fee, unique articles to publish on your website. When I saw it, I was surprised by the concept: if blogging is all about people expressing their personal opinion and publishing it for the whole world to read, why would you want to buy articles for your blog? So I searched for an explanation in this post.
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On keybindings: marrying keyboard and mouse-based navigation
Posted on July 30th, 2007 at 21:56 in Computer, Internet.
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“Everything in the UI should be accessible with the keyboard.” A simple rule, and yet do so many applications break it. Keybindings may be hard to learn, but once you know them they increase your productivity enormously. So why don’t more applications include an easy way to navigate through UI using the keyboard?
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Thoof: how is it different?
Posted on July 3rd, 2007 at 19:32 in Web 2.0, Review.
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Thoof is a personalized news service, like there exist thousands. But, according to Techcrunch, Ian Clarke, the founder of Thoof, said “the sites that came before Thoof simply didn’t have a good solution, and users were left wanting.” I checked out Thoof and it is, in my opinion, going to leave users even more wanting.
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How to add good-looking and functional navigation to your application
Posted on June 29th, 2007 at 16:37 in Programming, Internet, HTML.
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In this post, we’re going to add a navigation bar to our application that is both beautiful, semantically correct, and easy to implement. I’m going for the easiest solution to solve the problem, gracefully degrading into a simpler but still functional navigation bar depending on the capabilities of the user’s browser.
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Project Wonderful is wonderful!
Posted on May 14th, 2007 at 21:34 in Internet, Web 2.0, Review.
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Recently, I added advertisements to this blog, provided through Project Wonderful. This has been a very good experience so far, enough people seem to be interested in bidding on the ad space here for me to gain some small revenue, and using this money to buy ads for Chameleon also hasn’t been any problem.
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iReader providing summaries for links
Posted on March 24th, 2007 at 20:35 in Web 2.0, Review.
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iReader is an interesting new technology that allows you to see the summary of a web page before opening it. When moving over a link, a box is displayed next to the link outlining the contents of the linked page, processed by a “Natural Language Processor”. Condensed in some bullet points, you can see the main idea of a page.
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Scrybe
Posted on February 28th, 2007 at 15:11 in Web 2.0, Review.
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Scrybe is a new, exciting online agenda application. Attributed for delivering a “Demo of the Gods”, I checked out if it really is that great. With its offline mode, its ThoughtPad, the PaperSync and a lot of visual bells and whistles, I surely seems to be a cool app.
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Announcing Chameleon
Posted on January 27th, 2007 at 21:37 in Internet, Blogging, Projects, Chameleon.
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Today, I officially release Chameleon, a blogging platform focused on customizability and extensibility. Its first public version, version 0.5.5 Beta, comes with quite a lot of functionality already included, but with even more still missing. Along the way to 1.0, this functionality will be added, growing Chameleon into a mature blogging solution.
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Adding tag suggestion to your form fields
Posted on January 26th, 2007 at 21:10 in Programming, Internet, Web 2.0.
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In this post, I will try to explain how to add suggestions to your form fields. When using simple text fields to represent a many-to-many relationship between items and tags, it is applicable to provide a method for the user to easily view existing tags, so he can keep using the same spelling and style. Therefore, tag suggestion à la del.icio.us is probably the best solution here.
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Monitoring downtime with ServiceUptime
Posted on December 7th, 2006 at 18:19 in Internet, Review.
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ServiceUptime is a service I’ve been using for some months now, to track possible downtimes on my blog. It is a good service that checks your website from multiple locations every once in a while, to see if there aren’t any outages. They offer a free plan, which is limited to one website checked every 30 minutes, and some premium plans which a check period as small as 1 minute, SMS notification (after x unsuccessful attempts), double check and a lot of other features.
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