With the Web 2.0, it is great to see new startups, each one trying to outbeat the other. The ones who benefit are us users. Every once in a while we see a unique concept as is the case with Leafletter. Michael Patrick wrote in to tell me about their launch. Will be extremely lazy and let his email do the talking. After all, who knows the product better than the ones behind it!
Digg has updated its page design which has received a good amount of news today. However, one report that interested me the most was the post on Mashable. The social news site Digg announced some updates today that are generating lots of fawning, as usual. The changes are neat, but it seems that Digg is being congratulated for sneezing these days – the adulation is way out of proportion to the site’s size and influence. and But let’s face it: Digg is always overhyped in the blogosphere. They have 700,000 or so registered users, they say – that’s a large…
Google has released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) source code under an Apache License 2.0. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java development framework that lets you escape the matrix of technologies that make writing AJAX applications so difficult and error prone. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler to translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML. The source code is available for the 1.3 Release Candidate and it follows barely a…
If you have just started a new website, it can get really difficult to bring in some visitors. I usually promote my new site via my other sites. While this is good, it means I am limiting my horizons to only visitors to my current site and that too only a percentage of these may actually visit the new site. What if you had a service that got you all these visitors?
The Google blog has announced that Google Page Creator has just received a major upgrade. Features that have been added include complete image editing. Images that you upload to the page can be rotated, lightened, darkened, cropped. I gave this a shot. The functionality is basic but it does what it promises. Earlier you could create only one website, which was linked with your Google Account id. This was and still is an invitation for spam because knowing your address it was easy to figure out the email. Now, you can create multiple websites. You are limited to five right…
This definitely is good news for all webmasters. Yahoo! and Microsoft have joined Google in supporting the Sitemap Protocol. If you are new to this, Sitemaps is a good way to tell search engine robots which pages in your site you definitely want indexed. While not a guarantee that they will be indexed, it definitely providers as a poitner to the bots. The protocol has been offered under a Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. You can submit your sitemap to Google via Webmaster Tools and to Yahoo! via the Site Explorer. If you are using WordPress an easy way to create…
It was long awaited and finally Sun has release Java under an open-source license. Sun’s implementation of JSE (Java Platform Standard Edition) and a buildable implementation of JME (Java Platform Micro Edition) will be the first to be released under this new license, with plans to release JEE (Java Platform Enterprise Edition) too. Sun had already opensourced Java Platform Enterprise Edition software as project GlassFish. Java.net will be the home for the releases. This will be an interesting development for developers using the Java Platform. The GPL license means that the software created using the Java will also have to…
I’m rather frustrated. I’ve been using Internet Explorer 7 at home and didn’t realize that this site is all screwed in Internet Explorer 6 until it was pointed out to me. I’m at a friends place trying to debug the problem, but it just doesn’t seem to want to go away! I’m totally clueless about how to get the site to display properly on IE6. There are no issues with Opera, Firefox and IE7. In IE6 the sidebar goes to the bottom and the top menu button gets narrow in height when there is an image. Any CSS experts out…
Four seconds is the maximum length of time an average online shopper will wait for a Web page to load before potentially abandoning a retail site. This is one of several key findings revealed in a report made available today by Akamai Technologies, Inc., commissioned through JupiterResearch, that examines consumer reaction to a poor online shopping experience. The results are based on feedback of 1,058 online shoppers surveyed during the first half of 2006. Read the entire white-paper » I believe that this 4 second time limit applies only to fast connections. Out here in India with our pathetic lines,…
You can now add Windows Live Search Box to your website. When the user enters a query, the search box dynamically builds a floating DIV on your page to display the search results. You can customize the query in the first tab to search your site, your macro or anything else, while the second tab will return general web search results. The floating DIV will position itself appropriately, whether you decide to place the box on the left, right, top, or bottom of your Web site. You also have an HTML only version of the box. They provide the option…