July 2008
Google Maps launched a new feature this morning: walking directions. Walking directions are especially helpful for people living in urban areas where Google’s driving directions often send... Read More
In this hands-on tutorial, Jack lays the foundation for building a voting widget in Flex 3. Take the quiz at the end of the article, and score a copy of his book, Getting Started With Flex 3,... Read More
Facebook's new profile design went live to most users today. Apart from the cosmetic changes, one of the most significant additions is a new, prominent ad block on application canvas pages. Will it... Read More
There are a lot of pros to working virtually when you're starting up -- not least of which is the cost savings of working from home. But does it make sense for startup founders to be in the same city?Read More
Yesterday, Amazon’s S3 storage service was down for about 6 hours, taking many prominent web services down with it. Startup Planaroo offers some simple advice for how not to get burned when the... Read More
Monitoring buzz can help make your business more profitable, and there are number of online tools available — many free — that will help you track buzz and measure consumer trends. This post... Read More
Over the weekend, Yahoo! pulled out all the stops in its effort to fend off billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s attempt to replace the Sunnyvale Internet giant’s board of directors and sell to to... Read More
Did you know that you can use conditional comments in your HTML email to detect different Microsoft mail clients, in the same way that different versions of Internet Explorer can be detected on the... Read More
L. Lee Lowe is an author with a unique way of publishing her books: serialized in weekly installments via her blog. As she gears up to publish her second novel in this manner, we caught up with her... Read More
Many businesses are spending millions of dollars creating branded online communities, with the goal of building brand loyalty and creating word-of-mouth marketing. But most of these efforts are... Read More
Zembly is an online development environment for collaboratively creating social applications. It's in private beta, but we have 100 invites available for SitePoint readers.Read More
According to Steve Ballmer, the reason Microsoft wants Yahoo! is to beef up its advertising volume. If that's the case, Microsoft should consider AOL as an alternative. AOL's Platform-A, after all,... Read More
MySpace is using Google's Gears API to allow users to store mail messages locally and then search them in real-time. This week, a Google engineer released an unofficial project to help any web site... Read More
Microsoft's Live Mesh data synchronization platform was opened to the public at large today. Right now it is very much a tech preview, but some of the planned features of Mesh are quite intriguing.Read More
