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Yahoo!: Web 3.0 is All About Desktop RIAs
Yahoo! Technical Evangelist Mattt Thompson says the future of the Web lies in rich Internet applications, and that Web 3.0 will be all about making those RIAs seamlessly able to be accessed from the Web and the desktop.
You Don’t Have to Kill Google to Make a Killing
In just a few short hours after launching Monday, Cuil went from promising Google killer to over hyped bust. But killing Google doesn’t have to be the point. Small search engines can do very well and be worth a lot without taking a huge bite out of Google search market share.
Watch Out PayPal, Amazon Gets Serious About Payments
Amazon has beefed up its merchant offerings with the release of Checkout and Simple Pay, which are complete payment services aimed at small businesses that are easier to implement than their previously available Flexible Payment System API.
Create Your Own Font Using FontStruct
I’ve always wanted to dabble in creating a custom font that reflected my own style and flair, but tackling the task using a professional tool always seemed too daunting. Until FontStruct, an online font construction application, came along.
Custom Web Fonts: Pick Your Poison
Back in 1998, CSS2 proposed an approach for allowing custom fonts to be displayed on the Web—the @font-face at-rule. 10 years later, we’re still grappling with licensing issues, browser support and clashes in philosophies relating to font piracy. Kevin gives us the state of play.
Scrabulous is Toast: Did Hasbro Really Have a Case?
Scrabulous, the popular Facebook Scrabble clone, is officially gone. But how much claim does Hasbro really have to the game that the makers of Scrabulous were copying?
Looking to Flip a Web Site? Try SitePoint.
Web site flipping is hot, says the New York Times, and the hot place to do it? SitePoint’s Marketplace. With 1700 sites for sale each month, SitePoint has become a flippers paradise.
W3C Releases Mobile Web Best Practices
Creating a consistent and enjoyable experience while developing mobile content for a wide array of handsets and devices is a daunting task. Today the W3C released the Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 in the hopes of making it a little easier.
Regex Matching Attribute Selectors
Wouldn’t it be handy if you could use regular expressions in CSS to match classes or ids in your HTML code? It would make style sheets enormously powerful, more portable, and would consume less code.
Microsoft’s Answer to PageRank: BrowseRank
Microsoft thinks PageRank is flawed, and researchers in their Asia facility believe they’ve found a better way to rank search results. It’s called BrowseRank and rather than looking at link patterns, it watches for patterns in how people actually surf the web.
