SitePoint Podcast #8: The Case For Web Apps

Episode 8 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba), and Kevin Yank (@sentience).

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• SitePoint Podcast #8: The Case For Web Apps (MP3, 26.5MB)

Episode Summary

Here are the topics covered in this episode:

Click Fraud At All-time High

• Report: Click Fraud At Record High (TechCrunch)

Display Ad Prices Continue to Drop

• New AdPrice Index Published This Week (PubMatic)

Blog Networks Struggling Under Dropping Ad Prices

• Blogging Days May Be Waning at AOL’s Weblogs, Inc. (ReadWriteWeb)

JPEG XR Expected in 2009

• Better JPEG Standard Due in 2009 (SitePoint Forums)
• Better JPEG Standard Due in 2009 (CNET)
• High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI) (Wikipedia)

Ma.gnolia Goes Down in Flames with No Database Backup

• Open Thread: How to Prevent Data Loss (SitePoint)
• Ma.gnolia Bookmark Recovery Tools (Ma.gnolia)
• Backup Site? (CommunityAdmins)

Adobe AIR Hits 100 Million Installations

• Adobe AIR Is Flying: 100 Million Installations Accounted For (TechCrunch)
• AIR Passes 100 Million Installs (Adobe)

IE8 RC1 Released

• Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available (Microsoft)
• Overview of Platform Improvements in IE8 RC1 (Microsoft)
• Graded Browser Support Update (Yahoo!)
• Add this <meta> tag to your site to make IE8 behave like IE7:

  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />

Main Show Topic: The Case For Web Apps

• The Case Against Web Apps (InfoWorld)

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