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This week on the SitePoint Podcast, the guys discuss short URLs in the wake of tr.im’s near-death experience. Should you use short URL services, and what are the alternatives? Also, a look back at the Web’s most influential sites as they looked ten years ago, drag & drop in HTML 5, and our host spotlights.
SitePoint Podcast #23: Web Fonts with Jeff Veen
Jeff Veen is one of the bright minds behind TypeKit, a new service that he sometimes describes as “an iTunes Store for web fonts”. In this interview, Kevin Yank gets Jeff’s thoughts on the cutting edge of web typography, and how web design is about to change forever.
SitePoint Podcast #22: Bing’s Boondoggles
Facebook gets closer to a web within the Web thanks to 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, fallout from a PayPal outage, a domain name thief faces criminal court for the first time, and what the Microsoft/Yahoo! search deal means for Bing—and for you!
SitePoint Podcast #21: Interview with Jon Hicks
Kevin sits down with Jon Hicks for the first in a series of one-on-one interview shows. They discuss his work on the Opera 10 browser interface, the Firefox logo, and some of the differences between web design, logo design, and UI design. Find out why Jon uses different graphics software for different tasks, and discover his very favorite cheese.
SitePoint Podcast #20: YouTube Deep-sixes IE 6
In the SitePoint Podcast this week, YouTube to drop IE6, DiggBar diggs its own grave, we revisit web fonts and the HTML5 mess, and examine some search spending strangeness.
SitePoint Podcast #19: Compuwhatnow?
In this show, the guys discuss Compuserve shutting down. You remember Compuserve, right? Also: US states gang up on Amazon with an “affiliate tax”, PHP 5.3 and Firefox 3.5 are released on the same day, the debate raging over the standard format for video in HTML 5, and XHTML 2 rides off into the sunset … and dies. All this—and our host spotlights—in episode 19 of the SitePoint Podcast!
SitePoint Podcast #18: Internet Explorer 8 … Percent?
All eyes are on the Microsoft marketing machine as it fires up to support the launch of Internet Explorer 8. This episode, the podcast gang asks if the name-calling and myth-busting will do any good. Also: a peek at Opera Unite, comparing Ow.ly to the DiggBar disaster, and just how many New Yorkers know what a web browser is? Listen and find out!
SitePoint Podcast #17: 12 Kinds of Awesome
A big two weeks for the Web makes for a packed podcast! Google Wave, Google Maps v3, Opera 10 Beta, Safari 4, Apple vs Microsoft, Apple vs Palm, and Bing vs the world. All this and more in the SitePoint Podcast #17.
SitePoint Podcast #16: Online Marketing Inside Out
In this episode, the SitePoint Podcast crew interviews Shayne Tilley and Brandon Eley, the authors of SitePoint’s newest book, “Online Marketing Inside Out”. Listen in for loads of valuable insights, from how to tackle Twitter to the importance of building back-links.
SitePoint Podcast #15: This Way Up
In this episode of the SitePoint Podcast: Google’s new image-based CAPTCHA; Mozilla releases Prism 1.0 Beta; Facebook shuts down an important application; the top 10 technology terms that confuse your clients; and the Konami Code and what it has to do with your favorite web sites.
