October 2008
Yahoo! today released the results of the OpenID usability study. The good news is that most users saw the benefit of OpenID. The bad news is that not one had ever heard of it, even though Yahoo!... Read More
With all due respect to friends in the public relations industry, for many web 2.0 startups, PR is a luxury, not a necessity. During tough economic times it makes sense for many startups to bring PR... Read More
Whether you're searching for extra terrestrials or decoding DNA, cross-platform distributed processing has never been easier with Adobe AIR! In this tutorial, Jack shows you how to easily dispatch a... Read More
Even the printer ready page option for most web sites is bound to waste ink (because most contain ads) and paper (because they often put just a page's footer on an entire page). PrintWhatYouLike.com... Read More
Undoubtedly feeling pressure from Hulu and other long-form content publishers, YouTube has begun to experiment with adding professionally produced, full length content to its site. To start, they've... Read More
Open source project host SourceForge.net recently added a new feature to its list of project management offerings: hosted apps. In addition to being able to be used for live app demos, the hosted... Read More
Researchers found that web surfers visit an average of about 1,200 unique web sites each year. If each of those sites had a unique privacy policy of average length, that would equate to about 201... Read More
Whether social search is the future or just a feature, as we have discussed over the past couple of months at SitePoint, Microsoft Research is forging ahead with experiments in the social search... Read More
Are we in danger of coming across as egomaniacs in our sales proposals? Yes! The secret of successful proposals is to focus on what the prospect wants to hear. Learn how to make people an offer... Read More
Even in these tough economic times, there are jobs open for web designers and developers. The trick to finding them is knowing the best places to look. You shouldn't waste your time on HotJobs,... Read More
It's that time of the year again: April Fools day! When Google gets silly and launches all sorts of funny, fake products and -- what's that? It's not April Fools day? But Google has been releasing... Read More
SitePoint was recently named a finalist in the 2008 ActionCOACH My Business Awards. We were chosen from among 500 entrants and up for the Best E-Business award. Alas, we didn't take home the top... Read More
The following is republished from The SitePoint Tribune #416. A few weeks ago — September 5 to be exact — I ordered myself a shiny new car. The experience went along these lines. First, I... Read More
In her first article for SitePoint, Mihaela examines Google's sustained effort at search domination. This comprehensive analysis looks at the role of web reportage in the search landscape, and the... Read More
