Archive for April, 2009

Is the functionality for users in IE8 now so close to Firefox, Safari and Chrome that it will not lose any more users to them?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Disclaimer: This is the second post in a series on Internet Explorer 8 and what it means for the browser world. Read more about how this came to be.
Disclaimer: I am currently doing paid work for a subsidiary of Microsoft. This was not the case when I wrote this post.

With the release of Internet Explorer [...]

Will Yahoo’s and eBay’s “optimised for” versions of IE8 help it spread more rapidly and finally replace IE6?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Disclaimer: I have been invited by Microsoft’s digital agency to postulate statements about Internet Explorer 8, post them on my blog and get a discussion happening. This is the first of these posts.
Disclaimer: I am currently doing paid work for a subsidiary of Microsoft. This was not the case when I wrote this post.
Microsoft’s new [...]

Yelp, you’re doing it right

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

According to an article on ReadWriteWeb, Yelp.com – a restaurant review site sadly unavailable outside the US and UK – is now allowing owners of establishments to comment on reviews.
RWW withholds judgement on the new feature, stating simply that “Yelp will have to tread carefully with this as its user base, although fiercely loyal and [...]

Who do you trust with your memories? A cloud?

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

It has become very fashionable, especially among early adopters of web technology, to put absolutely everything in the cloud. Use GMail for your email, Saasu for your invoicing and accounting, Google Docs or Zoho for text documents and spreadsheets, Flickr or Facebook for your photos, YouTube, Vimeo or Seesmic for your videos and so forth.
There [...]

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