SitePoint Podcast #59: Speaking of Fail

By | May 1, 2010 | Podcast

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Episode 59 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@iFroggy), Brad Williams (@williamsba), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), and Kevin Yank (@sentience).

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Episode Summary

Here are the topics covered in this episode:

  1. Facebook Releases “Like” Button for the Whole Web
  2. Global Grind Copies Content, Submits It to Google News
  3. Is Palm Crumbling Before Our Eyes?
  4. Ning Fails at Free Social Networking
  5. HTML5 vs Flash—Animation Benchmarking

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Theme music by Mike Mella.

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Kevin Yank

Kevin began developing for the Web in 1995 and is a highly respected technical author. He wrote Build your own Database Driven Website using PHP and MySQL, a practical step-by-step guide published by SitePoint, and he's co-author of the SitePoint Tech Times, a bi-weekly newsletter for technically-minded web developers. Kev believes that any good webmaster should have seen at least one episode of MacGyver.

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Brian Miller May 6, 2010 at 11:22 pm

I agree, I always thought Ning felt too generic. I dove into BuddyPress early last year and it wasn’t quite ready but I think it has a lot of potential. Thought you might think it’s interesting they are publishing Ning to Buddypress importers already, http://buddypress.org/blog/.

Luis May 5, 2010 at 3:28 am

When you first said the word “Syphir” I thought for a second you were talking about the Flash Text Replacer.

I believe the correct pronunciation of “Syphir” is “sahy-fir”, similar to the word “Decipher”. Just a thought.

powerpotatoe May 4, 2010 at 2:46 am

Good show. I always learn something new.

PointAtMe May 2, 2010 at 9:39 pm

Higher bitrate of the MP3 (at least for download) would be nice.

khumalo May 1, 2010 at 11:39 pm

I am very surprised that you can find a case of globalgrind in the United States and this has been going on since 2005. I thought that was happening in developing countries as my Own- Uganda. But like everybody else I think it’s not a good thing. Some one should tell Russel Simmons what’s going on on the website. They should at least give credit to the content developers by at least posting a link to the source of the article.

Ashit Vora May 1, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Hi,
I am listening to Sitepoint podcast for the first time.
It would be nice if you can also show how long is the podcast along with file size (which is really nice if somebody wants to download it).

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