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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
