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)
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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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