November 2008
Web office application provider Zoho recently launched a new status page to monitor the uptime of their enormous web app suite. The status page shows of level of transparency that we think other... Read More
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that go unnoticed for the longest time. Case in point, while catching up on some WSG reading tonight, I discovered a way to use conditional comments to write... Read More
Stephen Collins is recognized as one of Australia’s leading proponents of participatory culture, advising businesses and government on Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and social networking. We had a... Read More
We've found that Google's free Ad Planner has an uncanny ability to be able to accurately report traffic information about web sites. It isn't perfect, but we think it is generally right on the... Read More
If the tumbling world economy has you worried, don't despair: we've got your back. The Internet, as you may have heard, is a wonderful place, full of money making opportunities if you know where to... Read More
The crumbling economy does not have to be all doom and gloom, particularly for web-based businesses or web developers. All it takes is a realignment of your focus, and your business can be doing... Read More
I’ve been tinkering with dumping PHP objects, and have found myself constantly running into a brick wall. The output from print_r and friends is fine in some contexts, but for larger structures, it... Read More
arguments is the name of a local, array-like object available inside every function. It’s quirky, often ignored, but the source of much programming wizardry; all the major JavaScript libraries... Read More
Using Greasemonkey, jQuery, and Google's Ajax Language API, developer Dave Trainer has created a killer add-on for Firefox. GMtranslator takes the text of any page, and with one click translates it... Read More
A new study finds that spammers are receiving the most dismal of response rates -- only about 1 in 12.5 million messages results in a sale, well below the response rate of legit direct mail. So why... Read More
Google has decided to drop Sun's StarOffice package from the Google Pack, a grouping of applications for Windows users. Could the company be gearing up for a big push to get people using its own... Read More
Welcome to The SitePoint Podcast, Episode 1. Play the episode in your browser: Download episode Hosts: Brad Williams, Patrick O’Keefe, Stephan Segraves, and Kevin Yank What you can expect from... Read More
Software doesn't get much more real than this. A photograph that recreates the Photoshop desktop using real world objects has been sweeping the web the past couple of days. Since it is one of the... Read More
Adding advertising to a free service often results in a user backlash. Asking users to pay for what was a free service can have even more disastrous results. Get Satisfaction did both this week,... Read More
