Monthly Archives: July 2007

IM Most Valuable Web 2.0 Tool for Enterprise “Other than IM, the report found that RSS and podcasting showed “the highest average business value”, while social networking and blogging showed the lowest.” (tags: web2.0 Enterprise statistics Research IM RSS Podcasting … Continue reading →

BrandBrains: Definition: StreamScraping “The act of aggregating and presenting streaming video or audio content in environments which that producer or distributor hadn’t intended.” (tags: StreamScraping video streaming ondemand online Definition) Walk Score – How walkable is your house? “Walk Score … Continue reading →

YSlow for Firebug “YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.” (tags: Web performance Firefox extension … Continue reading →

Is the Homepage Dead? Hello! I’ve been saying this for years! “Site visitors are decreasingly entering via the homepage and instead are entering through other entry points, such as responding to an offer or following a search inquiry.” (tags: google … Continue reading →

PayPal Searches for the $10,000 Facebook App “PayPal will award $10,000 to whoever mashes up the PayPal API to create the most interesting Facebook app. Two second-place runners up prizes of $5,000 will be awarded, while four third place winners … Continue reading →

Bokardo: Putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into Practice, Part I “The first step to putting the Del.icio.us Lesson into practice is asking a simple question that serves as the litmus test. Is your system useful to someone even if nobody else … Continue reading →

Library clips :: Pimp up Google Reader with 15 Firefox hacks :: July :: 2007 “For those who want more out of Google Reader and can’t wait, check out the hacks” (tags: Google googlereader firefox rss extensions hacks Blogs XML … Continue reading →

The Future of Search “Peter Norvig, the head of Google Research talks about his group’s projects.” (tags: Google Search Research Advertising Speach)

Inside AdWords: Google Print Ads now available to AdWords advertisers “Google Print Ads is now available to hundreds of thousands of United States-based advertisers who currently have a Google AdWordsâ„¢ account.” (tags: Google Advertising Print News media AdWords) Global Nerdy: … Continue reading →

iMacros for Firefox :: Firefox Add-ons “Web professionals use the iMacros add-on for functional, performace, and regression testing of web applications. With the built-in STOPWATCH command exact web page response times can be captured.” (tags: Browser Firefox extensions QA testing … Continue reading →

Inside Facebook: The Dangers of Building on the Facebook Platform “The Facebook platform is great. Great, that is, except when a bug on Facebook’s end renders your application useless.” (tags: facebook startups platform statistics)

Invite Share – Everyone is invited! “send out invitations to people waiting to get into services, the more invitations you send out, the higher you move up the waiting list for invites to services you aren’t yet a member of.” … Continue reading →

What does open source “mean” in a SaaS world? – Alex Barnett blog “…question will become the center of a highly controversial and popular topic of conversation for the wider technical community in 2008.” (tags: opensource software Technology trends SaaS … Continue reading →

Hypebusting: Facebook has ‘thrown the entire startup world for a loop’ – Valleywag A message from an anonymous Facebook app developer (tags: facebook api development) Versionate – Content sharing & collaboration, hosted wiki, share document and files. Wiki made simple … Continue reading →

Follow the Tour de France in Google Earth “…you can follow every nail-biting sprint, every gut wrenching climb, and every blistering descent of the Tour de France on Google Earth.” (tags: Cycling Google Earth Sports tourdefrance TdF bicycle) Video, Social … Continue reading →