January 2009
In this article, Andrew explains some of the technologies that make up the Flash Platform, and how you can use them to build RIAs. The first 200 people to complete the quiz at the end will receive a... Read More
Information architect expert Gary Barber takes issue with SitePoint's managing editor over the oft-uttered phrase "content is king." He delves into the grey area of "best practice" to define some... Read More
Did Flickr miss out on a goldmine opportunity by reportedly shelving a 2007 plan to open a stock photo site that would have allowed members to sell their photos? We think so, and here's why.Read More
Meitar takes another look at bleeding edge Semantic Web technologies -- in this case, RDF-EASE, a mechanism for adding semantic meaning to existing HTML markup by storing some of that meaning at the... Read More
It still surprises and annoys us when such a central feature of a web page as hypertext seems to be taken for granted. Poor linking practices are common — editorially and visually — and it has a... Read More
According to a new study, 50% of all developers worldwide will work on software as a service applications in 2009. That indicates a growing trend among enterprise customers toward adoption... Read More
Firefox will reportedly drop Google search as the default search engine in favor of Russian-based Yandex in official Russian builds of version 3.1. That's a major blow to Google, who trails Yandex in... Read More
Halla Kolbeinsdottir looks at what's happening in the mobile web industry, and explores a free online tool that makes it possible for anyone to create their own personalized, standards-compliant web... Read More
Conventional wisdom says that young people don't care, or are oblivious to privacy issues online. But conventional wisdom is wrong, and in fact, teens more than adults utilize privacy controls on... Read More
A couple of days ago we wrote about young rap artist Soulja Boy and how his social media strategy was a future blueprint for the music industry. But there's another major artist rewriting the rules:... Read More
In Episode 6 of the weekly SitePoint Podcast, our hosts tackle the topic of that frustratingly prevalent web browser that developers the world over curse on a daily basis -- Internet Explorer 6.Read More
Unless you follow a bajillion people and never sleep, using Twitter to find breaking news is difficult. And yet, breaking news is something at which Twitter excels. Here is one way to find news on... Read More
What colors are popular in different parts of the world? What about at different times of the year? Thanks to a new data visualization from Adobe's cool color community Kuler, those questions can... Read More
The New York Times might be running on fumes, but they've actually been doing a lot of cool stuff with all the data they and others have collected over the years. Today they released their fifth... Read More
