WebDevelopment – Page 23

Site Update

I’ve been updating the site all day – hopefully I’ll have a real post in a little bit. Oh, that photo is from Microsoft Virtual Earth. Find the story behind it here.

In an effort to foster my father’s growing interest in web publishing, I’ve written a rather verbose explanation on how to get a hyperlink to open in a new window. It includes a rudimentary explanation of the HTML tag and its attributes. Web site texts often have links to other material, signified by the keyContinue reading “HTML Basics: Anchor tags”

Beautiful Fractal Newsmap

This is nothing new, but for those who have never seen it the visual newsmap is really quite something. From the site description: Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator.Continue reading “Beautiful Fractal Newsmap”

RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II

This is a continuation of a post from 2009-02-10. While the post-IPO price of Google shares was still inflating the company engaged in a dot com buying spree perhaps only previously rivaled by giants like Yahoo! and IAC. They shopped for small groups serving this niche and consolidating Google’s control in this proto-industry before anyContinue reading “RSS, Web 2.0 and the Future Part II”

I Just Accidentally a BusinessWeek

I’m not sure how that happened but a guy at BusinessWeek wrote an article about iTunes and when he mentioned the Digital Butler from Negroponte‘s book Being Digital he referenced the digital butler and linked the term to an article on this site. For some reason he linked it to the Sunday post on last.fm.Continue reading “I Just Accidentally a BusinessWeek”