How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

Want to know how Google is about to change your life? Stop by the Ouagadougou conference room on a Thursday morning. It is here, at the Mountain View, California, headquarters of the world’s most powerful Internet company, that a room filled with three dozen engineers, product managers, and executives figure out how to make their [...]

ShadyURL – Don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.

Came across this today and had to laugh.
There are url shorteners all over the place.  Why not make it suspicious and frightening just for fun!
Enter in your url and see what you get.
ShadyURL

The power of ‘random’: ‘Seemingly loopy’ technique could dramatically improve communications networks

A radical new approach to the design of communications networks, called “network coding,” promises to make Internet file sharing faster, streaming video more reliable, and cell-phone reception better — among other improvements.
MIT is in the thick of these new developments. Last year, MIT researchers shared in two awards from IEEE, formerly the Institute of Electrical [...]

Can Microsoft Innovate?

Recently, slashdot posted a link to a NY Times OPED piece by Dick Brass, a former Microsoft vice president.  ZD Net’s Mary Jo Foley was quick to follow with Microsoft’s challenge: Innovation, innovation, innovation, offering some comments and a few more links.
Dick Brass tells us,  “Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer [...]

January 2010 Browser Stats

Mashable has posted information about browser usage (Browser Usage Stats: Chrome Grows While IE and Firefox Shrink) stats from Net Applications. In short, Chrome continues its climb at the expense of Explorer and Firefox. The original data comes from January of 2010 and shows that Chrome has gained 0.57% to get to 5.20% of browser [...]

8 Essential Tools for Website Redesign Efficiency

A website redesign can be tedious and time-consuming. Every hour that you spend tweaking and checking your redesign could be spent on your customers/clients. While cutting corners should be avoided (after all, we’re trying to make our site better), making sure your website redesign process is efficient and effective will ensure your website [...]

50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs

We are always looking for inspiration, specially when it comes to web design. We just can’t get tired of browsing around websites to check out layouts, colors, typography, styles and everything else that a cool site can offer. With this selection, I will show you 50 inspiring portfolio designs. Some of them you probably already [...]

Top 5 Haiti Scams 

One thing that never fails to impress me about the human spirit is the out-pouring of support, assistance and over-all sympathy when tragedy strikes. World wide, people come together and do or give whatever they can to help those in a time of crisis. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that has [...]

Apparently those newfangled iPod things will never take off.

Apparently those newfangled iPod things will never take off.
Apple’s New Thing (iPod)
Mac Forums.

Newsletters or Spam?

Newsletters are a fantastic and fast way to get information out into the world of potential or current clients. An important question often asked by businesses preparing to release newsletter campaigns is, how do we avoid our newsletters being labeled as spam?
There is no simple answer. While your e-mails may pass the requirements of the [...]