SitePoint Podcast #1: The Economy

By Kevin Yank

Web

November 10, 2008

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Welcome to The SitePoint Podcast, Episode 1.

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Hosts: Brad Williams, Patrick O’Keefe, Stephan Segraves, and Kevin Yank

What you can expect from the SitePoint Podcast

Bi-weekly release on Fridays
Four regular hosts (Brad, Patrick, Stephan, and Kevin)
Run time 30 minutes

Basic show format

Top news headlines as related to Web Developers and Designers
Main discussion topic or theme – news topic, guest interview, guest hosts, etc.
Plenty of guests, interviewees, and a few surprises along the way

News topics covered on this episode:

Opera study: only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant
Opera: Just 4.13% of Web’s Code is Valid (SitePoint)
Opera study: only 4.13% of the web is standards-compliant (Ars Technica)
Yahoo! Launches Web Analytics
Yahoo Launches Web Analytics (Search Engine Land)
Yahoo! Web Analytics FAQs (Yahoo!)
Amazon’s EC2 out of Beta: Now with Windows Support & More
EC2 out of Beta: Now with Windows Support & More (SitePoint)
Amazon’s EC2 Plays Nice With Windows (PC World)
SitePoint Book: Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!

Main Show Topic: Internet and the Economy
We discuss how the current economic situation worldwide is affecting the internet industry.

Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank is an accomplished web developer, speaker, trainer and author of Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL and Co-Author of Simply JavaScript and Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! Kevin loves to share his wealth of knowledge and it didn't stop at books, he's also the course instructor to 3 online courses in web development. Currently Kevin is the Director of Front End Engineering at Culture Amp.