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On Web Standards and rounded corners

October 25th, 2009

I think I agree with this article written ten years ago when the web was still in its infancy. While general web practices make sense, the need for having formal standards seems unnecessary. Website-building technologies have in a lot of ways standardized themselves because of individual developers deciding what is appropriate to use. Looking at the reasons [...]

Change is in the air

May 31st, 2009

In recent years, there has been an essence of ongoing change leading to some big changes. The internet is perhaps the biggest factor, if not the primary factor of this as it has been changing entire industries and affecting our lives more than ever before. And based on this and other factors, everyone seems to [...]

Democratization of the web

May 10th, 2007

How Social Media will change the world

Are you pod/audio/video-casting?

April 19th, 2006

“No one is podcasting.”
— Old Media (Newspapers)
“Everyone is podcasting.”
— New Media (Web, generally tech geeks)
Well, both sides are right. The confusion seems to be with the perception of what podcasting is. Podcasting is audio or video content recieved through a subscription, or feed, and then synced, or downloaded, to an iPod.
Now, if you’re like me, [...]

Flash and AJAX

December 9th, 2005

During the second meeting of Refresh Phoenix, a local community of designers and developers, it occurred to me that there is a noticable devide between (formerly Macromedia) Flash fans and (don’t call it) AJAX fans. While both seem to be using the technologies for similar purposes, each group sticks by their prefered method.
While it may [...]