September 2008
This month Google is turning ten. To celebrate, the world's number one search engine today launched a birthday page featuring an interactive time line of their history. In addition, they've... Read More
Fredrik Holmström recently posted a small template engine, based on DOM-manipulation. While there are certainly a lot of template engines around, I find this approach interesting. The concept is... Read More
The web circa 1995 was a web of walled gardens -- but is the web circa 2008 really that much better? Gina Bianchini, CEO and co-founder of Ning, doesn't think so. In her EmTech08 keynote today,... Read More
If you’re heading to Web Directions South this year, be sure to keep an eye out for Team SitePoint. Apart from presenting on many of the panels, there will be plenty of us circulating amongst... Read More
Ordered a year ago by the courts to remove all illegal P2P traffic from its networks, Belgian ISP Scarlet now says that it can't do that. Blocking all P2P traffic would be detrimental to user... Read More
We seem to be doing a lot of these giveaways lately! The latest Flex article that we set live today on sitepoint.com, Map Your OpenSocial Data Using FLex, follows a trend of late—complete a quiz to... Read More
Semantic web service Calais is adding a paid professional version today that includes an SLA that will make the service more feasible for corporations. Calais, a web service that extracts semantics... Read More
The easiest way to make money from content is to make money again from content you've already figured out how to make money from, says 37signals. Why kill yourself producing new content when you can... Read More
In just a few short months Hulu went from being a site that everyone ridiculed, to one that people are hailing as the future of television. It might just be that, but there are some obstacles that... Read More
The emerging OpenSocial standard is a powerful new API for creating exciting new mashups. In this tutorial, Jack shows how to mix Google Maps, Flickr, and OpenSocial using Adobe Flex. Take the quiz... Read More
I am often surprised by just how many professionally-designed sites are delivered in the form of incomplete HTML documents. To be fair, however, the amount of code required for even an empty HTML... Read More
The following is republished from The SitePoint Tribune #414. On the eve of flying to Sydney for the Web Directions South conference, I thought I’d focus on the topic of conferences—I believe... Read More
Facebook recently put up a preview version of their upcoming Lexicon tool. It adds a whole slew of new functionality and exposes a lot more aggregate demographic data culled from their 100 million... Read More
Wikipedia is one of the most powerful sites on the web due to the prominent place that so many of its articles rank on Google. But just who is authoring those articles? We present five web sites... Read More
