Zumobi Talks Widgets And Mobile 2.0InformationWeek, NY -14 hours agoGuess what, widgets are key to bringing Web 2.0 to the third screen. Over The Air (OTA): Hello Beth, welcome to Take 5 on Over The Air. Let's dig in. …
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Sahara sands shift to reveal WWII bagTelegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -1 hour ago"He said he had put some details on an internet search engine and had found Mrs Porter's account of her brother serving in Egypt but didn't know how to get …
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The value of U.K. Internet sales rose 29 percent in 2006 compared with the previous year, accounting for 6.5 percent of all nonfinancial sales, the government reported Friday.
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The Pentagon is incorporating cybertechnology into its war-fighting arsenal to stave off an “electronic Pearl Harbor.”
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If you follow the blogs which cover the internet tech industry you’ll have heard one word too much lately; Facebook.
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Reports surfaced yesterday, and now we have the official word from Facebook. Users will now have to opt-in to share purchases via Beacon:
Stories about actions users take on external websites will continue to be presented to users at the top of their News Feed the next time they return to Facebook. [...]
Google Will Apply to Participate in FCC Spectrum Auction — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it will apply to participate in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming auction of wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band. — As part of the nationally mandated transition …
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Author: Adam Kovacevich
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Using color has been a tried and true method of representing importance or value in a UI. Whether it’s negative balance or indicating a successful process, color helps to convey your message much more effectively then plain old text.
Josh Nathanson came up with an interesting jQuery plugin called HeatColor which assigns colors to elements based [...]
Race may indicate social network preferencesLSU The Reveille, LA -11 hours ago20 from Northwestern University shows race, ethnicity and education can predict what social networking Web site people use. This also proves that online …
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We’ve been hearing quite a bit about next week’s Fall Dashboard Update for the 360, but Microsoft’s finally ready to spill all of the beans. Obviously, the biggest update is the “Xbox Originals” downloadable Xbox games, but other improvements include enhanced online profiles, increased social networking, beefed up parental controls, improved menus, and [...]
Jon Sykes thinks he has found a bizarre bug in IE7. Since Microsoft has 34 QA people per developer, surely not! He told us:
There is a bug in IE7 where by a line of code inside a conditional statement that NEVER runs, can cause an object that is set with a fairly standard object [...]
This is part one of a two part episode featuring the legendary Los Angeles based Ska/Punk/Funk band Fishbone. This is from their performance at the City Museum, as part of the museums on going 10th year aniversary celebration.
Tags: Ska, Punk, Funk, Fishbone
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After the Chrysler LA Auto Show, I spoke with Frank Klegon, Chrysler’s executive vice president, product development about the company’s unveiling of their new hybrid SUV’s.
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Dotster Says Buyer Beware: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Hot …PR Newswire (press release), NY -Nov 26, 200726 /prnewswire/ — In today's ultra-competitive world of online marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is life or death. SEO improves the ability of …
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Scott Bennett put up two nice postings which demonstrate how to extend ColdFusion 8’s built-in Grid control. I’ve mentioned before that CF8 uses Ext v1.0 and as such offers a ton of flexibility not generally mentioned in the CF documentation.
Grid Validation
In his first post, Scott shows how to implement validation of CFGrid data. Leveraging Ext’s [...]
