September 2008

How much video is uploaded to YouTube every day? 780 days worth. And YouTube CEO Chad Hurley believes that the number will grow exponentially as video recording equipment drops in price and becomes... Read More
Jina Bolton is a designer and artist, working and residing in Silicon Valley. In this candid interview, she reveals where she finds inspiration for beautiful design, why she is fascinated by sushi... Read More
The new W3C Selector API provides a new—and fast—way to query an HTML page's DOM for specific elements. As Andrew explains, with support for the new API in versions of all major browsers, a speed... Read More
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who created the World Wide Web, today announced the formation of a new foundation, backed by a $5 million grant, with the goal of making the web more open and accessible to... Read More
 
Yahoo! tapped "Gypsy punk" band Gogol Bordello for their new marketing campaign, which urges people to embrace the color purple. It's a little weird, says nothing about their products, and probably... Read More
When Twitter was suffering from half a day of downtime every month, it looked like there was an opening for the service's competitors. But now that Twitter appears to have solved their uptime... Read More
Yahoo!'s Open Strategy is a way for the company to compete with Google, according to some pundits. But we're not so sure. Instead, by opening up and becoming a platform, Yahoo! is positioning... Read More
It's back to school time across much of the world. That means backpacks full of pens, pencils, notebooks, and, ugh -- heavy textbooks. Worse, those textbooks might be out-of-date and inaccurate.... Read More
 
An unconfirmed report, based on leaked screenshots, indicates that AdSense tracking will soon be made available to Google Analytics user. If true, the service will be very helpful for anyone... Read More
Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki says there are two ways to raise money for your startup: seek out VCs and bring in big money right from the start, or scratch and claw your way to a... Read More
Ever wonder what makes a real JavaScript guru? How about someone who has used JavaScript, CSS, and HTML to successfully implement a 2-D side-scrolling platform game? In this two-part series, Myles... Read More
Google VP Marissa Mayer talked about Google's vision for the future of search today, which includes, natural language and voice queries, rich media results, personalization, and accessibility from... Read More
Cymbolism is an awesome new tool for designers that tries to link words to colors, which should be helpful for designers trying to pick a color scheme to evoke a desired emotional response from their... Read More
Windmill is an open-source framework for automated testing of dynamic Web apps, which originated at the Open Source Applications Foundation. The Windmill team recently released version 0.8.2, with... Read More