ColdFusion is 13 years old. That make makes it the daddy of the web world! It does not make it any less hip or useful than the relatively new kids on the block. Let’s not dilly-dally, bicker or insult one another about which is best, which one is dying and which one is not worth the computer it is compiled on. What is important is to understand the merits of each language and decide which one best suits the application, not only in technical terms, but also in terms of time-to-market, cost of development, availability of a skilled workforce etc.
Tags: .Net, ActionScript, administrator, Adobe, Adobe ColdFusion, AJAX, Atom, best practice, Business, ColdFusion, content management, Design, Design Patterns, Development, encryption, enterprise-level search, Flex, Frameworks, fundamentals, HTML, Internet Applications, Java, JavaScript, ORM, programming, rapid application development, Rich Internet Applications, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, The Web, Web, web technology, web world, XML
A web community is a web site (or group of web sites) that is a virtual community. Web communities in recent times commonly take the form of a social network service, such as Facebook, Upcoming and Last.fm, an Internet forum, a group of blogs such as WordPress.com and Blogger, or another kind of social software web application.
Tags: Accessibility, assistive technologies, bbc, Community, connectivity, Content, context, continuity, CRM, facebook, Flash, FriendFeed, Google, HTML, Information Architecture, Internet forum, iphone, king, Last.fm, LinkedIn, mass communications, meme, N95, Nokia, Nokia N95, party social media services, re-worked web interface, Remember The Milk, respective web browsers, RSS, search engine, search engine optimisation, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, social software, The Guardian, The Web, Twitter, unique selling point, User Agent, User Science, usp, virtual community, Web 2.0, web accessibility, Web communities, web community, web robots, web-based community, web-capabilities, YouTube
You’re a YouTube addict with a serious amount of uncut video footage that you want to upload. If you want to transform that footage into an Oscar winning video clip that will be viewed millions of times, you’ll need to do a little editing. But buying editing tools isn’t a cheap pasttime.
Tags: automatic software updates, Content, cuts, editor, editors, Eyespot, facebook, free media sets, fully featured editor, Google, Internet, JumpCut, Motionbox, National Basketball Association, online, online applications, online communities, online editor, online video services, Oscar, Photobucket, The Web, Tools, video, Web 2.0, white label editor, Yahoo, YouTube
In the late 1990s, a large multi-national technology corporation, hoping to become a major force in online advertising, bought a small start-up in a sector that was believed to be the “next big thing”. That corporation was Microsoft and the start-up was Hotmail. Hotmail and Microsoft established web-based email as a must-have application for personal use. The addition of Hotmail to the Microsoft inventory promised to increase the companies online revenues that were being dominated by Yahoo!, Google and AOL amongst a host of others.
Tags: AOL, Bebo, Business, facebook, Flickr, Google, Hotmail, Industry, LinkedIn, Microsoft, MySpace, News Corporation, online, Orkut, revenue, skype, Social Networking, social networks, The Web, Time Warner, Twitter, ubiquity, Web 2.0
I’m not a big fan of the BBC’s recent website redesign! While I believe that a few structural and hierarchical elements could have been addressed better, the overall result of this redesign is too “Facebook” and Web 2.0 for my liking; exactly what an online news site does not need. Who are the BBC trying to appeal to? They have gone from being content centric to design and technology centric. This in itself isn’t a bad thing, but I don’t understand the BBCs motivation for doing so.
Tags: AJAX, bbc, facebook, homepage, iGoogle, Industry, My Yahoo, PHP, The Web, Usability, User Interface Design, Web 2.0, Web Portal, Windows Live
British web compliance expert, Magus, joins forces with BSI to raise online standards.
Tags: Accessibility, brand, British Standards, British Standards Institute, compliance, effectiveness, function, Industry, legal, Magus Ltd, online brands, online performance, organisational web standards, PAS 124, Performance, Publically Accessible Standard, search engine, search engine optimisation, SEO, The Web, Web, web accessibility initiatives, web compliance experts, Web Compliance Following, web presence, Web Standards, website
Both Web 2.0 and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) almost always depend up on the browser as a common denominator. It is with the web browser that web-based applications are accessed and run, yet the browser model is rapidly reaching its limitations. Prism is part of an experiment by Mozilla designed to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop applications.
Tags: Adobe Integrated Runtime, AIR, AJAX, Browsers, Mozilla Prism, Silverlight, The Web, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web Browser, Web-based applications
The Internet is the most important thing for the distribution of information since the age of the printing press. All information which can be online should be online; that is the best and most efficient way to distribute material to the widest possible audience.
Tags: Clay Shirky, Culture, distribution, information, Internet, printing press, R, revolution, The Web
Companies need to make the most of Web 2.0, and web content management tools can help firms meet user demand for interactive websites. These tools aren’t simply restricted to the standard content management systems (CMS) used to publish text to a website, but tools that include file sharing, information sharing and instant messenging among others.
Tags: accepted business tool, amazon, business intelligence, collaboration, content management, content management systems, ebay, Economist, file sharing, Intelligence Unit, interaction, Ismael Chang Ghalimi, Mashups, networking, networking tools, office 2.0, personalisation, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, social networking technologies, The Web, Tools, Web 2.0, web content management, web content management franchise, web experience, web interactions, websites, Wikis, YouTube
The development of the internet and the web, and of search engines, has led to users doing their own searching. In the Web 2.0 environment users are now also doing their own content creation and information management. Because folksonomies develop in Internet-mediated social environments, users can discover who created a given folksonomy tag, and see the other tags that this person created. In this way, folksonomy users often discover the tag sets of another user who tends to interpret and tag content in a way that makes sense to them. The result is often an immediate and rewarding gain in the user’s capacity to find related content.
Tags: categorisation, categorization, classification, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Folksonomy, Gmail, GoingToMeet, information management, library, LibraryThing, Odeo, Social Bookmarking, social web, Tagalag, tagging, tags, Taxonomy, Technorati, The Web, tim o'reilly, user content, Web 2.0, Wikis, YouTube