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20th Anniversary of the World Wide Web

Friday, March 13th, 2009 - 10:00 pm no comments

CERN is marking the 20th anniversary of a document by Tim Berners Lee entitled, “Information Management : a Proposal” describing what would become the World Wide Web

Google Announces Chrome Browser

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 - 9:32 pm 3 comments

Google entered the online browsers wars with the accidental ‘cat-out-of-the-bag’ comic book announcement of its release of the Google Chrome Internet browser.
The ubiquitous search giant’s new browser will be a direct challenge to Microsoft and Internet Explorer. This all marks the entrance of Google into the browser wars which has been so far dominated by [...]

Social Media Interaction, Friendly Pointers

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 - 1:08 pm no comments

This morning I was sifting through my RSS subscription box and came across an interesting post by Amir Ahmad at MindValley Labs about succumbing to evil ’shortcut-ish temptations’ on social media websites.
Amir points out that one of the failings on social media sites are that a user will join and go on a ‘adding friends [...]

Adobe Announces Flash to be Indexed by Search Engines

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 - 4:01 pm 2 comments

First snippet of exciting news today, Adobe Flash  is now enhancing search results. For years we have been developing websites that owners have wanted embedded in the site only to be told that search engines won’t be to read flash as it is a proprietary language and image based.  Now it appears Adobe is making [...]

Stats with Woopra

Monday, June 16th, 2008 - 1:06 pm no comments

Being a bit of a web ‘stats junkie’ I have spent many hours glued to long list of analytic programs and doing my utmost best to work out not just where visitors are coming from, keywords, or referrals, but what visitors are thinking, where they go next and do they follow the call for action. [...]