July 2008
CenSEARCHip is an interesting project from two University of Indiana computer science students that takes creates a visual comparison between search results in countries where government censorship... Read More
Google launched a user generated content site called Knol yesterday that many people have called a Wikipedia killer. There's some evidence that Knol is in competition with more than just the web's... Read More
The Internet and other media has impaired our ability to pay attention to things for sustained periods of time. But now, new web services seem to be made with the goal of eroding our attention spans... Read More
According to a report from CNBC, Facebook will be adding Microsoft web search to the site in the fall. That's something that many web pundits have been calling a "no-brainer" since Microsoft... Read More
Recently I had to do some mass-conversion of HTML files to DITA XML — material I’d written for the upcoming JavaScript Ultimate Reference (the third, and arguably most complicated, part... Read More
Earlier today Facebook announced Facebook Connect, which extends their development platform to outside sites. In many ways, this is what their Beacon outside advertising platform should have been... Read More
GitHub's new Gist site takes the pastebin idea and makes it a lot better by adding things like version control and easy forking. Gist is Pastie on steroids and will be useful for many developers.Read More
The Open Web is a term that is used fairly often now, but like Web 2.0 before it, it is a term without a good, succint definition. Some smart people are trying to come up with one.Read More
Webmasters.org sold yesterday for $50,000 right here in the SitePoint Marketplace. Though technically a site sale, the true value was the top-level domain making it the largest domain sale ever on... Read More
In the immortal words of Kermit, it's not easy being green—but there are ways you can do your bit for the environment. Here, Matt offers ten commonsense ways to reduce your carbon footprint... Read More
If you’re into adding a little JavaScript interactivity to your web pages, you may have heard of JavaScript event delegation and thought it was one of those convoluted design patterns that only... Read More
Glam Media is a blog network with over 600 publishers reaching 77 million unique users per month. Today, they launched an application platform for their publishers based on Google's Open Social.... Read More
Video hosting site Vimeo recently disappointed a large portion of their user base by disallowing video game clips. Their reason for the policy change had more to do with their vision of the type of... Read More
Because of US Congressional rules about communicating with the public via outside web sites, using Twitter may not be allowed. And that's caused a bit of a stir among some House of Representatives... Read More
