Mar
06

IE6 Countdown: Right time for Browser Standards

Internet Explorer 6 usage around the world

Its good to see world is ready to move on from Internet Explorer 6. Here is a snippet from IE6 count down site: 10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we’re in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it’s time to say goodbye. This website …

Continue reading »

Nov
14

Non–Latin Character Domain Names

Recently ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved the introduction of the complete Internet domain names in non-latin specific languages (Non-latin characters in domain names) Extract from one of the Press release: “Up to now, domain names had to use the 26 Latin letters in the English alphabet as well as 10 numerals …

Continue reading »

Jun
13

Translations – Web 2.0 Extn? Or Web 3.0?

There is lot of talk about Web 2.0 all around with focus on making web as a platform, enhanced user experience etc. with DATA as the primary focus area. But one thing that is still missing in Web 2.0 is about translations – from one language to other. There is lot of data in different …

Continue reading »

May
28

JAX India 2007: Day 1: Web2.0? But I am Barely keeping up with Web 1.0 Right Now !

Its been an exciting day on the inaugural day of JAX India 2007. The day was meant for workshops and I attended half a day workshop on “Web 2.0? But I am Barely keeping up with Web 1.0 Right Now !” by Craig R McClanahan. Here is extract from the session: The session covered from history of web …

Continue reading »

May
17

Is Ajax making sites less reachable?

We have been talking about Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies for sometime now. At one end Ajax becoming an asset from usability point of view but on the other hand it is making sites less search engine friendly. Search engines for now are not intelligent enough to make a server side request and retrieve the …

Continue reading »

May
02

Another Collaboration Feature: Google’s Gadget

Here is another Collaboration Feature from Google. Google has introduced a new Gadget maker product for iGoogle (new name for Google Personalized Homepage). The users without having any programming or web design experience can create Gadgets and share with community or other iGoogle user. The Gadgets are as simple as filling out the form in …

Continue reading »

Apr
23

CMS, Web 2.0 and SEO

To what I understand till now about Web 2.0, it emphasize on Search Engine Optimization as one of the main area of concern. Let me try to list down few of the Search Engine Optimizations from CMS implementation point of view: A utility to detect duplicate content detection at the time of content publish I …

Continue reading »

Apr
21

What each Product Name Means?

Just wondering how much a name of a product make sense? This strike me when I was reading about Search Engine Optimization and came across how domain name plays a vital role in optimization (will cover SEO in my next posts). Lets have a look at few products from each space and try to understand …

Continue reading »

Apr
13

Web Applications to be available offline

Off late there has been lot of web sites that I came across which are trying to provide offline access for their Web applications. The basic idea is that the application can be worked with in a browser offline and automatically sync up whenever you get online. Scrybe is one such online/offline calender and organizer …

Continue reading »

Apr
12

Fatwire Releases Content Server 7

Fatwire announced much awaited release of Web Content Server 7. The newest release is built around the Web 2.0 jargon’s. It bring in the concept of “tagging” making it easy for everyone to navigate, organize and socially contribute web content. The theme for the new version, as Fatwire states “Content Management for Everyone”. Another feature …

Continue reading »

Older posts «