Posts Tagged with ‘web’

It brings a tear of joy to my eye to think that a website is taking steps to become grammatically proper.  Listen, we English majors have to find satisfaction somewhere, right?  Facebook is working on a way to make grammar significantly more consistent. 
Though you might not care one way or the other if your friend's status update reads, "Jimmy John is Does anyone know where the nearest Chipotle is?" Facebook is of the opinion that such odd [...]

JS-Kit , which I tested and reviewed back in October, has just released another fantastic tool for Web publishers called Navigator . As far as I know this is the first lightweight service of its kind designed to increase traffic and retention while simplifying content management for publishers.
Navigator essentially distills opinion and user behavior into a set of flexible views. The net effect of this is to allow visitors to access content based on their personal preferences. The [...]

You know how most things to do with technology are supposedly slanted toward the male segment of the human species?
Yes, I?m sure you?re aware. Aware of that assumption, anyway. And it?s completely understandable as to why exactly people feel that that is the case. After all, one doesn?t typically find airport lounges and cafes populated by a great deal of women wielding laptop computers, clicking away happily, content to spend their waken moments in their own personal virtual worlds. [...]

On occasion you find a startup that truly hopes and wishes to stand as a solo success – a mega success, even. More often, though, you come across businesses which look to build themselves up enough to look attractive to bigger fish. So that when they prowl “The Valley” in their best suits and dresses, they’ll have a decent chance of selling themselves off for a good amount of green.
Then there is the class of Web creations that neither [...]

China’s bloggers aren’t much liked by their government. Some of them don’t speak kindly of President Hu Jintao and the Communist Party, so some are censored - even jailed in a number of circumstances. And lately those in charge have made known their drive to require bloggers “use their real names” upon registration of their blogs. Tuesday May 22, however, marked the beginning of the end of such an initiative, due to “an outcry over the proposal from the [...]

Most of us have used Google Search over the years, and it’s safe to say most have been content to do so. Until now. Now we want more – without putting more effort in. We don’t only want the standard set of links displayed ten at a time. We don’t want to have to physically enter the same search term on a subdivision of the main engine (news, images, video, etc.). We want things to be easier to use and [...]

Robert Scoble has recently shared how to utilize the look of your blog to make it appealing. And he talked about what Kathy Sierra had done to her blog. Kathy is definitely someone who is good at what she is doing. At least, she knows how to attract attention of her readers. Like any other good blogger, she provides great content on her blog, but what sets her apart from the rest is that she is so dedicated to her [...]

Ever since word of game consoles breaking into the Web world got out to IGN, GameSpot, Joystiq, and others, I’ve had an inkling that a move so embracing of the new generation of internet technology would be a big one, and it finally appears to be panning out in a real and meaningful way.
Just look at the recent Asian and US releases of the Playstation 3. Enclosed within its sleek case is a graphical powerhouse, but more so, it is [...]

The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) was built on submissions, many of them from without project. Just read The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester. It was one of the most ingeniously devised social networks of the 19th century, perhaps in all of history. Begun with a grid of 54 pigeon-hole cubbies to organize quotations (which would eventually be categorized by what we know them as: definitions), the OED was helmed by a trio: Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and [...]