Better Design Through Code (7)
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Every day our web applications ignore useful visitor data. We respond to single request based on a domain and a path without listening to the capabilities, location, preferences, and favorite interactions of our visitors and their requesting agent. A few weeks ago I challenged a room full of designers at PARC to rethink what's possible on the Web and rely on adaptive programming techniques to serve the right content to the right audience at the ...
Inside the iPhone App Store acceptance process (9)
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Apple's iPhone OS App Store is a little over two months old and already the focus of both hype and fear among members of the press. KPCB has already invested more than $30 million through its iPhone-specific fund. Established companies are writing iPhone applications for the first time. A few applications have been banned, as expected with most platforms. Apple's relative secrecy regarding the iPhone platform and distribution policies have caused market uncertainties in need ...
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dewitt said:
Niall does the legwork and sifts through all the hype regarding the Podcaster and the iPhone App Store.
The story behind Google Chrome (93)
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Google released its second web browser yesterday afternoon, adding additional headroom for web applications stretching the limits of what it's possible to accomplish within a web browser. The Google Chrome team assembled domain experts in various fields over the past six years, both through direct hires and acquisitions, to create a new browser and its critical components from scratch. GMail and Google Maps pushed the Web to its limits, taking advantage of browser technologies invented ...
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Colide81 said:
what a interesting look into the birth of the google browser.
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fesja said:
muy interesante resumen de la historia detrás de google chrome
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Sean Leather said:
A nicely told tale of the development of Chrome with lots of interesting background behind various acquisitions that at first seemed unrelated.
Internet Explorer 8 Search Suggestions (3)
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Microsoft released a second beta of its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 browser yesterday afternoon. The new browser will reach full release by the end of the year, changing the way most Windows users view the Web. There are many new features of IE 8 for web developers, including completely new ways to light up the browser chrome. Microsoft has extended the OpenSearch protocol with a new search suggestions data formats expressed XML or JSON. The ...
Intel and Yahoo! announce Widget Channel for HDTV (8)
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The Internet is coming to your TV, reclaiming your split attention span from the other gadgets around the house. Intel announced its latest effort to power your living room yesterday with new media processors, reference designs, and software stacks that may eventually find their way into the cable boxes, Blu-ray players, and home media centers of 2010. Intel partnered with Yahoo! to deliver Internet-connected widgets, advertising, and content to potential partners with a software stack ...
Writing Flash for search engines (11)
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On June 30 Google and Adobe announced a new indexer optimized for Flash (SWF) discovered by its web crawlers. The new partnership takes advantage of a server-side Flash player optimized for a search engine indexing environment and unidirectional text (e.g. no Hebrew or Arabic). Search engines previously discovered the location of a SWF file on the Web and perhaps indexed its metadata but did not take a deep look inside its binary content. Last month's ...
Google App Engine optimizations (1)
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3 months, 1 week
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I have developed a few web applications powered by Google App Engine since its launch in May. It has been a fairly easy transition from my traditional programming in Python and Django backed by MySQL to the distributed App Engine environment, Bigtable, and the limitations of each. I have learned a few App Engine best practices over over the past month and would like to share some best practices for App Engine development gained mostly ...
Google App Engine for developers (4)
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On Monday Google launched Google App Engine, a hosted dynamic runtime environment for Python web applications inside Google's geo-distributed architecture. Google App Engine is the latest in a series of Google-hosted application environments and the first publicly-available dynamic runtime and storage environment based on large-scale propriety computing systems. Google App Engine lets any Python developer execute CGI-driven Web applications, store its results, and serve static content from a fault-tolerant geo-distributed computing grid built exclusively for ...
Sniff browser history for improved user experience (1)
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The social web has filled our websites with too much third-party clutter as we figure out the best way to integrate content with the favorite sites and preferences of our visitors. Intelligent websites should tune-in to the content preferences of their visitors, tailoring a specific experience based on each visitor's favorite sites and services across the social web. In this post I will teach you how to mine the rich treasure trove of personalization data ...
FeedDemon and NetNewsWire are now free (1)
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NewsGator is giving away desktop feed readers FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, and NewsGator Inbox. The company hopes to regain any loss of revenue from its desktop business with new enterprise sales leads and better attention metadata. The company announced the change in pricing in a press release today and a blog post by founder Greg Reinacker. NewsGator's desktop feed readers previously cost about $30 each and faced some commoditization through feed reading software bundled with modern operating ...
