At Google I/O the team showed a demo of YouTube running video right in the browser, instead of in the rectangle of Flash. Now, that URL takes you to the beta, which you can opt-in too. I am torn on what to write on this showcase though.... so, especially since it is Friday, here are two [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 5, 2010
As the Web becomes more social, privacy becomes harder and harder to come by. People are over-sharing on Facebook and Twitter, broadcasting their whereabouts every ten steps on Foursquare and Gowalla, and uploading photos and videos of their most private moments to the Web for all to see. It's easy to say that privacy is dead, we all live in public now, and just deal with it. But things are a bit more complicated. It used to be that we lived in private and chose to make parts of our lives public. Now that is being turned on its head. We live in public, like the movie says (except via micro-signals not 24-7 video self-surveillance), and choose what parts of our lives to keep private. Public is the new default.
Continue reading...Saturday, January 2, 2010
Now that the aughts are behind us, we can start the new decade with a bang. So many new technologies are ready to make a big impact this year. Some of them will be brand new, but many have been gestating and are now ready to hatch. If there is any theme here it is the mobile Web. As I think through the top ten technologies that will rock 2010, more than half of them are mobile. But those technologies are tied to advances in the overall Web as well. Below is my list of the ten technologies that will leave the biggest marks on 2010:
Continue reading...Saturday, November 21, 2009
είναι πολύ συχνό φαινόμενο να ακούς στο χώρο το δικό μας για συμβατότητα με τον Internet Explorer 6 και μάλιστα ακόμα ποιο συχνό να βλέπεις τους designers να μεταμορφώνονται σε γκρινιάρηδες όταν ο πελάτης τους πει τη μαγική απαγορευμένη λέξη: "δεν το βλέπω καλά στον υπολογιστή μου, έχω IE6". Μία λέξη έχω να πώ μόνο: ΞΕΚΟΛΗΣΤΕ επιτέλους απο τον IE6. Ειλικρινά δεν υπάρχει ποια λόγος να ασχολείστε με κανένα fix για συμβατότητα με τον IE6 . και εξηγώ παρακάτω εν συντομία γιατί (χωρισμένο σε groups χρηστών)
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